Household troops are the best at everything but can only be hired in small numbers and can transform into mercenaries if you don't pay them.
Mercenaries are free to hire, and can be hired in huge numbers, and are good fighters, but they're insanely expensive when their paycheck comes due and if you miss too many payments they'll rebel and disrupt whatever province they happen to be in.
This helps pacify the province but could leave you in a tight spot if half your army runs off in the middle of a campaign. Noble volunteers were the opposite and were the main offensive troop type, but if you conquered a province with them a certain number would disband automatically in order to seize fiefdoms for themselves. Levies were useful on defense but much weaker in enemy territory, and would actually disband automatically if you tried to take them overseas. In that game you could build your armies out of levies, noble volunteers, mercenaries, and household troops. This reminds me of an old DOS game called Medieval Lords: Soldier Kings of Europe. I would go as far to say that you shouldn't even be able to raise levies if you aren't in a defensive war, which would force attackers to rely on MAA and mercenaries. So this idea of mobilizing all your levies for the campaign is borderline retarded. So, having too many levies won't make the army better, it will just add to the logistic issues, generally, there isn't much-taking levies to foreign expeditions, but they would be advantageous to the defender. If the main body breaks, the levies won't do any good as the knight charge will easily rout them. Their role was to cover the rear and move into the frontline during a possible retreat (e.g. Levies were auxiliary units, with the sole purpose of supporting the rest of the army.Īverage Christian composition would be something like 20% cavalry, 30% foot-sergeants, 50% levies, guess which portion was assigned to the rear? PDX deploys a complete misunderstanding of levies.
and if anyone has idea how to spread religion i love to hear what you have to say.I love debating about levies with people who haven't read a single military history book and insist their perception must be correct. i love to see what others think about more options to spread religion. Over all the blogs i read this was the only thing that was important for my so i head to pitch this idea to the devs. and i believe this is important for all the religions in the CK3.
Over all i wont more options spreading my religion with out holy wars or wars. and how you can pressure other clans countries with your religion with out going to war. some of the games that i playd in total war was just about spreeing religion and playing with religion. My favorite religion system is in total war Medieval 2, Shogun 2, Attila. i have many reasons to spread religion in ck3 and one is role play. but there is something that war rally missing for my ck2 and that is more options to spread my religion with out having to go to war.
We all have are own idea what we want in a ck3 game. it's more important than over to be able spread it. I have been reading your dev blogs and i just love that your doing with the game.Īnd new when we can create a religion on are own.