I tried to get back into Vanilla M&B by roleplaying a 'hero', i.e. I haven't been able to get back into M&B ever since I had to reformat and lost my saved game in the Sword of Damocles mod. You can also pay to permanently improve the attributes of the knights in that order, which will affect every member of that order, including the ones that enemies use. Some orders have requirements like having a particular companion, owning a particular town, or spending a Qualis Gem. Once you have a castle or city, you can also found a knightly order there, which allows you to promote a particular unit into that order. Property management is better, there are more buildings you can build and those buildings can get damaged. Sometimes the armies are lead by a hero that you can capture like a lord, and either choose to permanently get rid of them or let them go for a Qualis Gem (or money, but I think the Gem sells for more anyway). They're mostly just slightly better than bandits, but sometimes huge armies spawn, and wreak havoc on anyone who comes near them until they're slowly worn down.

There are a whole bunch of groups of non-kingdom-aligned enemies roaming the map. There's also a sixth major line of units, Pendor, that isn't associated with a kingdom, and can be either sometimes found in villages or promoted from farmers or refugees. PoP has a different map and different units. I'll try to throw something together quickly: Standing still with a still target, normal attacks will deal base damage, while if the game would let you, couched lance damage might approach 0 (though I'm not sure). It's clearly based on the differences in speeds between the attacker and the target, though I don't know if it's applying the same calculation as it does for normal attacks. I know that couched damage isn't always absurd, you can get smaller amounts of it by sweeping across an enemy riding ahead of you. I'm not sure about the damage formulas, though. I think couched damage is just a multiplier of the base damage.so yes? Do lance stats matter for couched damage, though? I don't think that Noldor have lances, either. I wouldn't use a greatsword against them, but I would against pretty much every other troop, especially when me any my horse are heavily armored enough that I can shrug off most arrows.

The point of fighting the Noldor is to get stuff to slaughter people who aren't Noldor with. Yeah but jothki appears to be a greatsword user, not a ranged player.

Prophecy of pendor companions