Like the things I listed immediately below my statement.
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It seems (at least to my mind) that the Gondorians were quite definitely oriented towards heavy infantry.
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And I tend to think the Gondorians were a more well-rounded force. I inquire regarding your source.
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I would disagree with this statement, and instead posit that a fully armoured knight in plate was the most effective.
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Ahh, well fortunately this is not a matter for which we have only theoretical speculation upon which to rely. We have a grand instance of this very confrontation in history.
The Mongols shot up the heavily armored knights of Europe just as effectively as they shot up everybody else. As a matter of fact, they made the Europeans look like a bunch of blundering buffoons and the medieval European military system as a whole look (to put it gently) "incapable."
Of course, those silly Mongols did that to most everybody. Darn those well-armed horse archers.