rohan v.s. gondor

[Túroch]

Most likely these close allies would never fight of course, buit it's an interesting question. Bladorthin said

I have no idea how many cavalry archers were in Rohan's army, but they would be effective against large masses of infantry.

This is an important point. Throughout the ancient, medieval, and renasiance (sp?) world the horse archers was one of the most feared units on the battle feild. They can inflict heay loss, keep troops pinned down, while moving at great speed and having only light causualties in most engagements. Their is only one problem. You can't train horse archers. They have to be taught since birth. Therefore these units are more precious then gold due to the small amount of horse archers availible and the amount of time it takes to create them. If Rohan got it's horse archers killed. Well thats the end of that for at least 2 to 20 years. However being the Rohirrim lover that I am (can you tell from my avatar [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]) I woulld put my money on the Rohirrim.