Gondor is all about being defensive until the strentgh is there to attack. Dol Amroth takes care of Harondor but will need assistance to keep it. You have 2 chokepoints you need to hold, maybe 3 if Isengard gets Rohan down. So, you can set waypoints for every settlement select settlement; hold alt and right click on campaign map, a blue circle should appear so use that to send reinforcements directly to the frontline.
Build the armories; free garrison troops that you can throw away in every defensive siege cuz they always helpin defense if there is room for them. Good units for first contact while rest of your troops stay fresh, the enemy gets exhausted fighting your free troops. Keep a reasonable garrison in coastal cities. Ar-Adunaim still have their corsair invasions so Pelargir, Linhir and Anfalas may get attacked by them.
Simply make sure garrisons are set up and they cant do much. No suprises like that coming for you. Once you beat that army, Mordor will send you trash for along while, they just dumped all their starting forces in one army and send it your way. Last edited by Inardesco ; 8 Apr, am. Thank you, will try this and attempt this strat. Would it be wise to send benfalas pikemen to the mordor border? Yeah, pikes are really great and especially against Mordor can take out a lot of trash.
Unfortunately for Gondor, mission command was…lacking. In fact, the Palantir had been hacked by Sauron, who was feeding false information to Denethor.
Denethor thus lost his nerve and developed a fatalistic attitude that rendered him useless on the battlefield. The wounding of his son Faramir additionally contributed to his depression and he became combat ineffective during the battle, without ever relinquishing command. He would eventually commit suicide due to his inability to see any hope in the ongoing operation. Luckily for Gondor, Gandalf then assumed command of all land forces, despite his position as a primary staff advisor to Denethor.
Arriving at the enemy point of breach, Gandalf rallied the forces in the engagement area, organized the defense, and directly opposed the primary enemy air and land component commander, the Witch-king of Angmar.
The two land component commanders were prevented from close combat by the arrival of the primary maneuver element: the forces of Rohan. The forces of Gondor had little in the way of movement and maneuver while trapped in their siege. Their primary mobility force came in the form of their ally in Rohan, which could provide 6, mounted assets to relieve pressure on the besieged city and permit the forces of Gondor to mount a counterattack.
These forces arrived in the rear of the enemy, just as the Witch-king had successfully breached the walls of Minas Tirith.
Both forces assaulted across the Pelennor Fields, a wide open area that was ideal for conducting mounted operations. The fixing force executed an assault on enemy fires and engineer capabilities around the walls of Minas Tirith, neutralizing the enemy threat to the city, reopening lines of communication with Gondor, driving back the enemy screening Haradrim cavalry, and forcing the Witch-king to deploy his forces against the threat to his rear and flank.
The assault force struck the enemy right flank, using mobility to mass their forces quickly and overmatch the enemy infantry. The Witch-king himself went air-mobile, utilizing close air support to mortally wound Theoden.
Command devolved to his nephew, Eomer. She was aided by a guerrilla fighter named Merry, a hobbit. Although Eowyn was wounded, she and Merry combined to render the Witch-king combat ineffective by depriving him of his earthly body.
Lacking an exploitation force, the forces of Rohan were helpless to prevent the enemy from occupying the center of the Pelennor Fields, effectively driving a wedge between the city and its maneuver assets. The counter-attack of the riders of Rohan seemed to be doomed to failure as the enemy massed their forces to reclaim the initiative.
We have already noted how the intelligence assets of Gondor had been compromised by Saruman. However, due to good compartmentalization, the enemy was not aware that Gondor did have one small Special Forces strike group in the area of operations. Utilizing psychological warfare operations, this strike force — lead by Aragorn and other elements of the Rangers of the North, as well as SOF assets Legolas and Gimli — had overcome the main port of the Corsairs of Umbar, which would have provided the enemy with riverine capabilities to rapidly mass reinforcements at the Pelennor Fields.
The Special Forces manned the boats, augmented by troops from southern Gondor who had been initially cut off from the main body. Utilizing deception, these forces moved up the Anduin River flying false flags of the Corsairs so that they were not neutralized by enemy shore batteries.
Once in sight of the battle, Aragorn raised his true colors, that of the King of Gondor, raising morale in the forces of Rohan and shocking the forces of Sauron. These three forces combined to completely destroy the enemy on the Pelennor Fields, ensuring a complete victory for the Captains of the West. The forces of Sauron achieved near complete dominance in fires from siege weaponry during the battle. Fire superiority enabled the forces of Sauron to gain space for engineer breaching assets to reach the main gate and breach it.
However, the lack of adequate protection for fires assets doomed the forces of Sauron when the counter-attack from Rohan struck. Protection is the warfighting function related to preserving the combat power of a force. This worked in Gondor's favor as it allowed for the two foes to meet with all force in one place instead of many, leaving the Undeeps undefended. The Wainrider's defeat led to an uprising in Rhovanion by the slaves but the Wainriders were not completely expelled from the west, as they still remained in Rhovanion due to the partial failure of the slave rebellion.
The Wainriders had been checked, but they had not been defeated. For forty-five more years, the Wainriders were still a problem despite their losses in the west and plotted a new campaign. Needing more support to recoup their losses and defeat Gondor, they formed alliances with the Men of Harad and those of Khand. There King Ondoher was utterly defeated losing his life and his two sons: Artamir and Faramir. There were some survivors of the defeat that retreated south but the field was lost.
The Wainriders advanced into Northern Ithilien with no opposition, setting up camps. Here, the victors celebrated believing Gondor was at last defeated.
He met up with some of the retreating troops of Ondoher's defeated army and fell upon the Wainrider camp in a surprise attack. The Wainriders were completely defeated in a great rout.
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