The barbarian ammunition arrived two hours late.
The dwarven supply caravan's emergency dispatch, requested at the twelfth hour and expected at the twentieth hour, arrived at the capital's northwestern breach at the thirtieth hour. The two-hour delay was the delay that the mountain road's conditions and the caravan's draft animals' fatigue and the specific logistical friction that emergency supply operations produced when the operations' urgency exceeded the operations' infrastructure's capacity.
The dispatch consisted of twelve wagons bearing the thundermaker ammunition that the palace district's defense required: forty thousand thundermaker balls and the powder charges that the balls' firing demanded. The wagons' arrival at the breach was the arrival that Garrok had been counting on and that the counting's timeline had been calibrated to produce the arrival before the Horde's advance reached the palace compound's walls.
