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Originally Posted by tom the eldest
i dont have a better title okay?
what is the preferred battle style of middle earth kingdoms?like their tactics,strategy,preferred weapon.etc.can any one make a list of those?
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In the book Unfinished Tales [Note 16] there is mention of how the group of 200 men escorting Isildur to Rivendell did formations to deal with a larger force of orcs.
"the Dúnedain were plainly many times, even to ten times, outnumbered. Isildur commanded a
thangail to be drawn up, a shield -wall of two serried ranks that could be bent back at either end if outflanked, until at need it became a closed ring. If the land had been flat or the slope in his favour he would have formed his company into a
dírnaith and charged the Orcs, hoping by the great strength of the Dúnedain and their weapons to cleave a way through them and scatter them in dismay" [The Disaster of the Gladden Fields, p. 284]
I'm sure if you read some of the other situations you can see their tactics and note the weapons used.