Just edit the xml file so it has less melee skill and it’s balanced

I recommending editing the xml to give pikemen a shield and higher polearm skill and then they are more useful

20 bolts weighs around 2 pounds in real life just saying. Is it really that heavy to add some more?

Hey Hey. they can totally block arrows. Just.. only once or twice, is all

Disgrace to the Rhodes. Disgusting.

Doesn’t need noble horse

I feel quite hungry

Its pain in the ass to recruit these things unless ur playing kuzait. Can't kuzait settlements when at wars. Can only recruit like 30 noble sons before they declare war on u Recruiting them as prisoners is the only viable way. And steppe bandits.. how tf are we supposed to catch em

Historically they had some of the best horses and armor

The keshig are the khans guard if it was lore accurate

Darn Shame this guy doesn’t make videos any more :(

Omg, the Oathswron body armor costs 72k. Wow

Too OP? Hmmm that's why Huns and Golden Horde capture a half world 🤔

Just the opposite khans guards the unit make game balanced as they are shock troops. And khuzait lacks shock troops. İf it werent for them. Khuzait would be worse copy of empire or aserai. İ think fians and crossbows kinda op.

I see the title I see Battanian Fian

Let's see, it is realistic that the mounted archers are OP, there is a reason why the Mongols conquered so much as they were nomads with nothing more than horses, and even more so in times of light infantry on large plains, the elite of these units it is logical that they are the best in the game, excellent unmatchable archers on fast horses with a great spear and charging ability, for me the nerf should be that they should be much more expensive to get, that you need noble horses instead of warhorses to upgrade to that point, or both, with higher maintenance cost, even so it is difficult to maintain realism in a game when reality was not balanced, the horse archers were always OP

"Khan's Guard are overpowered." Genghis Khan who conquered 1/3 of the world: "Am I a joke to you?"

The producers of the game are Turkish. Armağan Yavuz (the producer of the game) says that Khuzait comes from the Turkish-Mongolian tradition. But you insistently claim that he is Mongolian. Do you have a problem with Turks? Why does it bother you that such powerful troops come from the Turks? The majority of Genghis Khan's army consisted of nomadic Turks. If this were not the case, Mongolia's population would not be 3 million today. Millions of Turks live in Central Asia and Anatolia. Please review your thoughts. Even the helmet of the Khan's Guard was inspired by the Kipchak Turks. If you Google Kipchak Helmet, you will see it.

The Turkic-Mongolian tradition created this monster and thus they took over the world. We know that the game draws on historical realities, so it is no coincidence that this union is the best. The helmets of the Khan's Guard were inspired by the Kipchaks and they did this job very well.

kıpçak türkü yarram ne sandın

they just carrying ma battles yo

is this weaponized autism?

I don't see anything wrong with this *hhrrrrmmmmmsss in aproval

These guys shouldn't have a swingable polearm, period. They are horse archers, give them the best horse archers bow back but take the polearm away and give them a one handed sword.

Accurate to history though. Mongols did shred through a lot of nations unless they were walled, in a jungle or had an army specifically formed to counter them. I like fighting them they are a good challenge for experienced players to fight, and a safe option for those new to the series. So I personally don't have a problem with them being really powerful for those reasons.

The same problem with muskets

Idk what changed since this video, but at least according to Strat's melee testing in the latest branch they hold their own against every high tier infantry (except for the Legionary) even when set to hold fire. They're pretty dang good at softening up the enemy and then joining the shield wall, or you can even use them as the main shield wall while using shock infantry.

How on Earth do I make a unit of just skirmishers? I keep getting Oathsworn in the unit because they both have throwing weapons. This is soooooooooo frustrating.

Man your video sucks

That is actually extremely interesting. I am fully prepared to admit that the Cataphract is a better cav unit but I love the Banner Knights so much more, they just look so damn cool and couching lances? I'm in. My experience however, is that Banner Knights are complete glass cannons. They kill more than any other unit but die more than any other unit, especially in auto resolves. Even with high medicine, it seems like they die far more often than get wounded. By contrast, late game Cataphracts are much more cost effective because you rarely have to replace them and a lot more armies use them, prisoners meaning recruits. Cataphracts, in my experience, are better for sieges for that same reason. Even with a weak garrison and militia, it seems like I always lose at least a few Knights. That seems wild that they apparently excel in melee so much. Not hard to beat the Sergeant tho lol. Also, cheap ass Derthert doesn't equip squires with a war horse so its a pain in the ass to either collect a lot of horses for more or only hire one or two Gallants from the random few villages that actually have them. Man, with how much he sucks at running a kingdom (including keeping his vassals happy), its truly impressive how he usually steamrolls in my playthroughs

Once i play campaign... mesui (one of Monchug general) deployed 200 khans guard in 1 battle... My battle limit is 1000 so i fight around 200 khans guard at the start of battle. At that time we are in the equal force around my 1200 ish vs her 1300 ish... Its one of the bloodiest war i have ever played

One think that matter for me quite a lot : Vlandia troops are really bad as attacker in siege battles, and Kuzhaits troops cant exploits their full potential in siege. During a siege as attacker, Vlandians nobles units will just be of no use and get destroyed, and their crossbowmen having a very limited amount of shot will start to climb the ladder even before they get all wipped out. For Kuzhaits, their hors archers can't be exploits at their full potentials during siege... And quite often, they will have a lot of ranged troops, so the infs attacking in close range will be of no match against your own inf. And even if they clean up your whole front lines, once their inf destroyed, they will have to go in close combat to finish the work at a moment or an other, and will just get wiped out. That's why, while fighting Vlandia or Kuzhaits, I try to be in a siege situation (as a defender or as an attacker) as much as possible.

Historically accurate

Nah mate! They need a buff. I lose like 3 units per siege. XD

I kind of think they're still OP in this version, didn't know that until I watched this video but it explaines why I managed to beat a party of 120 with a squad of 30 khan guards... (only lost 4) Interesting

The devs are turkish so they make their faction op thats why

Nerfing the glaive would do a lot to rebalance... the fact they out fight palace guards on foot is ridiculous and makes palace guards useless.

Maybe make it so that they throw pilums when low hp?

I feel this unit would be very powerfull when more micromanaged. Tell them to hold fire and outflank the enemy. When on their flank or behind them let it rip with the javelins and score tons of kills. Then hit and run once the infantry hits their ranks. Theyre still shit. But they can made to work.

Maybe the AI problems have been fixed by now. But eleite menagliatons cleave a bloody path through my enemies. All shock troops as far as I can see. Even Voulgers kill many times their own numbers now :o

I've noticed that there are no Battanian cavalry units with horses clad in the full-scaled armour, which is a shame because there really could've been Battanian heavy horsemen who could've rivalled the druzhinnik, or even the druzhinnik champion! Anyway, interesting and informative video, nice to see that at least the Battanian mounted skirmishers are worthy cavalry, though in my experience, the horsemen weren't shabby either, but probably because they were accompanied by druzhinnik and cataphracts, maybe, never saw how exclusively around 150 Battanian horsemen performed. XD

The Vet Falxman shines when paired with Fian Champs at a 1:5 ratio with the Falxman in a loose formation. The Fians keep the infantry at bay, and the Falxman buffer calvary charges. Keeping calvary off the Fians keeps their arrows flying, the loose formation makes the Rhomphaia’s length useful and allows a smaller contingent of Falxman to cover a larger area. This combo can easily handle 2:1 odds against most compositions in the field with almost no casualties, and 5:1 odds isn’t impossible with good terrain. They suck in sieges though.

*loooks at Menavliation's performance chance vs infantry* Look at how they massacred my bois T.T

With the 1.2 update wildings are OP now

Dude we need updated guides since 1.2 combat AI was dramaticaly changed, saw quite armor/equipment changes for some troops, plz make an updated guides for best troops.

i dont fully understand what you mean by using khans guards feels like cheating? they are part of the game, they cost quite alot to maintain if you have large numbers. they take relatively long to train and as you said they can only come from nobility making them much less avalible than other commons troops. for 300 khans guard salary you could have almost 1000 mid tear infantry wich in my opinion can win against them if used correctly. Are they a very strong troop? yes but they deserve to be they are the top of what the kuzaits have to offer. maybe i am biased cuz i am Hungarian and I almost always play as the khuzaits as it more closely represents Hungarian culture but i dont think they are too op they are just simply an expensive noble unit that is designed to be strong as all noble units should be. Another point I would like to add is that khuzait infantry sucks ass, they have tiny little shields and have like no athletics skill making them move like living bricks, I think the developers recognized this and had to buff their horse units in order to make it more fair.In my opinion the problem is more so the fact that the other factions noble units are just not as good as they should be or could be

the empire has Rhagaea and Ira. Nuff said for S+ tier

Enemy: *gets shot at* Omg lets close the distance to them! Sergeant: Cowabunga it is!