DaC V5 - Gondor 1: Bulwark of the West

When are we getting captain Egalmoth?

You can get the fiefdom barracks in a couple of other notable Numenorean cities I think - Umbar probably being the most useful.

Yay Gondor

Now this will be very interesting. Do you spend capital in the East first or try to bring the Western rural areas up to self-protection and eventually economy? Learning hat on. Please don’t forget cavalry, crappy as it is.

Heads up, waystation says it can retrain minas ithil guardians but it doesn't so use the wisely :D

FOR GONDOR! FOR GONDOR! FOR GONDOOR!!

lets go

Ain't no way lmao. Your videos got me started as Gondor not too long ago, and now you're playing as them! Can't wait to see your strategy dealing with the Power in the East!

There is a nice trick to fend off khand. Take the settlement bellow the two osgiliaths, destroy all buildings and sell it to mordor. You won't see any khandish armies get in your way there as well as mordor will only be able to recruit trash. Also get one boat to be able to station the fort bellow the two osgiliaths, to get them in and out when you need them.

Oh Yeah! For the White Tree!!!

We have never been more back

Quick money making strat for anyone starting as Gondor:
Mines in Calenhad and Ethring
Port in Lond Galen
This will sort out any early financial inconveniences you might face.
Have fun with Gondor!

Edit: Also, don't forget to make Ethring your capital, you earn around 1000 more gold this way. Corruption grows from distance to capital, so keep your capital in the centre of your realm.

Maybe you know the answer to this? I remember reading somewhere that it was possible to form the Reunited Kingdom with Gondor?!?

Let’s gooo!

For Egalmoth!

THE BEACONS ARE LIT! GONDOR CALLS FOR AID

EPM: "Get closer Fountain Guard..."
Fountain Guard: "RUN AWAY? GOT IT BOSS!!!"
EPM: -___-

The Gondor Tutorial. Love to see it!

great start

I think the rangers don't have the legio thing because they were spawned in a fort in a neutral region as opposed to a settlement.

This will be legendary!!! What’s been the hardest grind so far angmar?? AA?

Focus economy!!!!

I got a question is it ok if there is a rule of you can't take mordor lands with miltia tier troops it always feels wrong you know

“Never again will the lands of my people fall into enemy hands”

Welp. My Pinnath is hard.

Respect the early game min maxing

Crikey those Cair Andros defences were top shelf!

Hmmmpf
If there was Boromir - he already take Minas Morgul

Enjoyed that can’t wait till ep 2

I know you've sailed past this episode but roads are super important for ethring, calembel, serelond and annulond. Those territories are huge and important to improve transport across for your plan. A military garrison at fanuilond and amrothian barracks in tarnost are necessities if a defensive battle is to be pitched in the south. I like the strat to hold in the east and south....nobody ever does it and so long as enedwaith doesn't replace isengard as your spam enemy it really will help the camp....you are just losing out on the full potential of osgiliath, minas ithil and ithilien regions for recruitment.

why and how did denethor get the mistress ancilliary?
seems so unfitting for denethor he loved his wife very dearly if im remembering it right.

Love the intro to give folks larger overview 1st turn. I was looking forward to the expanded roster edition. But. looks like this isn't the most recent updated V5 ??

Bummer. So many factions, including Gondor have a lot of newer, sweet roster options.

I believe Dol Amroth is Gondor's from the get go in the newest version update.

Enjoy

YES GONDOR CAMPAIGN I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!

Turn 1 i see you have made the same mistake in your first Gondorian campaign sending the Fanuilond's militia unit to the Mordor front
The Pelargir's unit must be send to protect the strait of Anduin.
Pelargir is the recrutement center against Harad and Khand not Mordor because the troops need only one turn to go to the soutern front and 3 to the Mordor front .

After the taking of Cirith Iaur do not go immediatly attack Isengard it is to soon I suggest to build the military building first in Tharagondost and Cirith Iaur to recruit units there and I mean the Gondor spearmen and Gondor infantery for the units

The saga of Eaglemoth begins.

I always use the guys in the back fort by Andros as a back up to come and fight after the siege by morsor. Then get them to advance in the field and fall back to the castle.

I appreciate you reading the descriptions, it adds to the whole feel of the campaign we are about to watch

I know that you have an unhealthy obsession with the garrison buildings, but especially with Gondor they're incredibly unnecessary. You only have 2 main cities to defend: East(and later west) Osgiliath and Cair Andros, so those places are where most of your troops are going to be anyway. The garrison building in Cair Andros shouldn't really do too much for you as the amount of times where the garrison building itself makes the difference between victory and defeat is so incredibly small that it's simply not something you should rely on as a crutch. Moreover it's an incredibly expensive building, especially for the benefits it provides(and the additional building upkeep too, can't forget that aspect) and especially with Gondor comes with a massive opportunity cost of not building up your other cities.

If it were me I wouldn't have built the garrison building in Cair Andros on turn 1 and instead start getting Mason's Halls in the settlements you were going to build up first, so those with the best mines as well as the obvious ones like Minas Tirith. The Meeting Halls was a good move, yes, but in Callenhad specifically I would have gone Mason's Hall first since you will want to get the mine there ASAP so it's a city you're going to want to continuously build up ASAP.

As far as the overall campaign strategy goes for the early game, going your tactic of keeping Eastern Osgiliath under constant siege certainly works. However if you prolong this tactic for too many turns than you're simply allowing Mordor to grow more powerful for no reason. Instead you should focus on getting 2 full stacks filled with solid units(ideally no or very few militia tier units) and than push to both Minas Morgul and Moranon at the same time, taking them over and ready to defend against the doom stacks that will follow, thus needing 2 high quality full stacks before doing this. Than you clean up all the other Mordor settlements outside of Mordor proper, let Mordor constantly siege Moranon and fight defensive battles there whenever they storm your gates and hold the Minas Morgul fort instead of the city, allowing you to actually grow it as it becomes a pretty good city once you develop it, and gives you those nice Minas Ithil Guardians(2 handed sword units) once your culture is high enough(easy enough to do with spies).

At this point you're basically done with Mordor, you just hold those 2 regions while you can focus elsewhere, say on Isengard, while continuing to build up your territory and getting to your elite troops. Than when you're good and ready you storm Mordor with the intent of finishing them off in 1 fell swoop.

Hey are you using a custom campaign map sub mod? That looks sick!