Hello fellow Gondorian.
I´m re-starting to play gondor more often thx to newcomers and wanna re-create battles in osgiliath as it lets you take diferent styles and alot of skirmishes in bettewn main events.
Anyway advices on your list.
Largorien its partly right to mention the banner effect. Banners are an important thing to take, although their range aren´t that great as 3" its short, it depends pretty much where is it and whom its around it to benefit from it.
Banners are a good source of re-rolls but need to be well played and placed to benefit the most.
As you noticed some units benefit more than others and that comes from how they play in the terrain. For instance a warrior of minas Tirith on foot will benefit greatly from a banner rather than a knight. Why you wonder? their tactical role on the field. A knight its a self sufficient soldier whos able to make devastating charge without support, it got enough punching power to shatter strong armours thx to his lance bonus and therefore its more independent than lets say a warrior, who need spear support to maximize is effectiveness in combat.
Knights of Minas Tirith in the field, generally work a bit of an inches away from eachothers to ensure they won´t be trapped as often when fight against odds, their large bases often are sight of fighting foes 2 to 1 if not even more.
As with it means that they won´t be able to protect the banner in the back from incoming volley fire as good as sturdy shoulder to shoulder shieldwall like infantry for:
1- the´re expensive so you wont field 2 many
2- they dont have spears so no benefit from frontal line, and either if they did, the spear support guy would lose alot bonus from supporting.
Infantry however will benefit from your banner greatly as they normally fight in 2 ranks or in shielding to ensure survivability, make sure what they do its to survive the most.
If you wanna take a knight with banner in the middle of your infantry blob please do, as often seen, the horse model will ensure survivability to the rider as the enemy will have to randomize hits better horse and rider from shooting and also allow your banner to get greater flexbility and a few more inches range cause you´re influencing fights from a bigger wider base to small bases around.
Warband 1 its interesting as it sounds but
1- try to get 4 Komt with shield and remain 8 man infantry blob. Some scenarios are tricky and losing knights cause the oponents comes after you from the same boardegde and stuck your knights of the bat, ain´t a good thing.
2- those infantry blob try osg vets, while nearby 6" of faramir the´re fight 4 for a considerably cheap cost (womt cost +1pt) You can add a couple rangers in for shooting, the´re good value anyway and helps you spread shooting.
Warband 2 should be your mounted harass group.
Beregond on horse (he has a good shooting value)
add like 5/6 citadel guards with bow mounted, these are the harassment source of yours, they work in a way like knights of rivendell with a bit worst shooting value, but you can use that beregond´s might point to call heroic moves or shooting and such to make the best out of this group, this is the "in bettewn lines" to support wherever you need it. YOu can nominate faramir as your heroe however as its keep em fearless while the young captain is alive. Ps* keep an eye on unreleased miniatures, they got all the models needed for this warband.
Warband 3
its your bulk move forward and hold the line, you need to make sure you maximize the number count on this warband, and I would recommend as many guards of the fountain court as you can for:
1- they are decent cost for their stats
2- they all come with spear
3- the only D7 infantry model in the entire force.
4- this allows you denethor to chop through infantry
all this while under said knight with banner effect to take the most of it.
So overall.
Warband 1
Faramir with heavy armour, shield, armoured horse and lance
4 KoMT with shield
4 Osg veterans with shield
3 Osg veterans with spear
1 Rangers of gondor
Warband 2
Beregond on horse
4 Citadel guards with longbow on horse
Warband 3
Denethor, Steward of Gondor
6 Guards of the Fountain Court with shield
5 Rangers of Gondor with spear
1 KoMT with shield and banner
bow limit its at the edge 9.3(10) so you got pretty much alot bows
Hope this helped.
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I wud take boromir if u can I am no expert on gondor but he is so kickass