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Eoros wrote: I wonder how skilled of a general Sauron was...

Aragorn was absolute crap at commanding. He stood in the middle of his men, literally the worst place to command from. He sent in 6,000 men (a pathetically small army) at the Black Gate to be surrounded by tens of thousands of orcs. And no, don't give me the "orcs weren't well armed" garbage. There's no way Aragorn should've won that battle. There was no strategy there at all. The orcs even had trolls with them.

And in the movie, he successfully did a 2 man cavalry charge against thousands of orcs. I won't even go there, but no matter how fearsome he was in battle, he was literally on his own with an old man. And the orcs all fled. Supposedly smarter and stronger orcs too.

I'm surprised he kept his realm longer than 3 months once he was made king. Jeez. He seems like the kind of general to charge into a battle with no formations at all, hoping to overwhelm them with numbers alone. And on a horse in the midst of his men, not having a clue what's going on outside of his unit. You do realize that he was trying to make it look like it would be an easy kill but a big enough threat to take care of it right? There were no tactics needed as they were A: surrounded, B: just supposed to stall Sauron for long enough.