DaC - Gondor Underpowered/Mordor Overpowered?

[Akboris]

Gondor just seems very stacked. It and Dol Amroth has to fight 4 enemies at once, possibly 5, and can only really rely on a terrain advantage in the defence, which the AI isnt very good at taking advantage of.

Gondors units are mediocre and pretty unavailable, compared to Mordor for instance that can spam so many different cheap but effective units with no consequence to losing them.

Mordor has an insane amount of unit variety too, they have everyones stuff and power units of their own so there isnt really isnt any specific weakness that can be exploited. Even orc archers are pretty good for what they are.

Maybe morale? Nazgul generals that never die, taking up armies, make these units totally unbreakable. Even orc trash can fight to the last man, and the Nazgul themselves take forever to die, and could possibly win a clutch just by existing.

Im playing as Mordor right now and that Dagorlad territory has the AI wondering to the north with all their units to take it.

Ithilien is completely empty, and without the garrison script (god bless) I would be able to take Minas Tirith with ease.

I think that these two factions could be rebalanced a little. Mordor wins 4/5 times within 100 turns for me.

[Inardesco]

Mordor is arguably the easiest faction by far.

However, do keep in mind that key regions still get garrisons, like Isgiliath and Minas Tirith.

Gondor is supposed to lose in the long run. You as a player can obviously beat Mordor but otherwise you will need to go out and assist Gondor and Dol Amroth.

[Tacticus Winter]

It follows in line with what was actually going on. Gondor and the Men of the West were weak. Gondor's armies were stretched thin.

so naturally that coupled with Mordor's ability to crank out endless hordes of orcs makes for Gondor being a very weak faction. That being that said, Rohan is the real issue as Rohan gets steamrolled by Isengard in almost every playthrough I've ever had. The Elves are occupied with Mirkwood, OMM, and Gundabad so Rohan's only real natural ally can't help until the Elves get rid of Mirkwood (which they usually do) but by then, Rohan is already brought to the brink by Isengard.