Quote Originally Posted by Who_Da_Halfling View Post
She's meant to be a crusader-type who is somewhere in the Good spectrum and is a benevolent authority figure as well as a savvy and talented military leader and strategist.
Important questions:

Is she necessarily a skilled fighter herself? Is she an inspiring leader (such that you would want her to be able to give bonuses to her allies) or an expert commander (no need for statistical bonuses, her job is to work out how best to achieve the army's objectives and give the appropriate orders)? Are you limited in how you stat her up or can you give her whatever stats you feel like, whether unfair by the PCs' creation method or not (obviously you can, but what's the norm or unspoken contract)?

You could just give her virtually any class, tack on a high intelligence and some appropriate skills, and leave it there. On the other hand, if you want her to be able to get mechanical use out of her intelligence you probably want something like Duskblade or Warblade - and Duskblade is a caster while you don't have ToB. Then again, I don't know of any intelligence-based classes which can use it to give bonuses to allies - which would be ideal. Essentially you want a 3.5e tactical warlord.

Does she even have to be a fighter-type? You might consider a Psion (seer). High int, can use powers to gather intelligence and predict outcomes. Again, castery though.

On the Marshal - wasn't it available online on the WotC site?