DCI: Last Alliance is a submod for Third Age: Total War, focused on the War of the Last Alliance in the Second Age of Middle-earth.
Horses are few in Rhudaur and Angmar, and noble warriors by tradition fight on foot, dismounting when getting close the enemy.
But that is not always the case, and it has become increasingly apperent that the advantages of mobility against the Dúnedain, and their allies in this great war, in favour of a firm shieldwall, can not be understimated.
Therefore the Warlord have initiated a military innovation, that is spreading among the commanding chieftains.
While clad as heavy cavalry of other folks, the Hill-men still prove their uniqe strain still in that the nobles, who have no tradition of using lances, utilize their skill with the javelin, before drawing sword to charge in for the final kill.
Credits:
By Earl of Memory; further notes, see the article.