what's the best men-at-arms in ck3?

[SkillaWillits]

Horse Archers are stupidly broken. Sure they’re not the cheapest, but they effortlessly melt armies.

[Aristatie]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks longbowmen are broken

[MrCotchios]

Lately, I've been obsessed with playing adventurers and going to India to unlock war elephants and then going to Europe and decimating everyone.

[ciara]

Ive always apreciated the incomprehensibly named archers you get in the baltic and finland, great bang for your buck early.

[danemr]

I mean the best men-at-arms are siege units in my opinion. Obviously on the field they're not great, but sieges are generally more important anyway.

[gimmethegepgun]

Thunder across the steppe with Horse Archers!
Until High Medieval comes around and people get Crossbows, they're only countered by the Han and Armenian MAAs (and on the steppe, even fully countered, they still do 9 damage and have 20 Toughness, which puts them on similar footing to a Light Footman without terrain bonuses).
Basically the only thing you can actually do against them without those is to force them to fight in a mountain or a marsh (which brings them down to "only" 15D/20T).

[rubaztop]

Crossbowmen are also really good since they counter horse archers, heavy infantry and armored horsemen at the same time while having good stats overall

[TwoHeadedMeerkat]

I'm new to ck3, and onagers have been a godsend. Sieges just take _forever, _ and my King has most of his skills dumped into being a brilliant tactician so he's already strong enough to defeat most armies with levies alone, and maybe a few cavalry too. Reducing siege time is a nice way to ensure his conquest won't be cut short by old age, since he's already getting up there in years and Europe hasn't been fully conquered yet

[EscanderEH]

Georgian Horsemen are basically great on any terrain which is pretty cool

[Marxist_Bidenist]

It’s a okay mechanic to show the effectiveness longbowman had near the end of medieval era ie: the battle of agincourt

[flazzorb]

Longbows + Strength in numbers = Unending Arrows.

[CrashperM]

Sad that horse archers weren't mentioned. They are so good at stackwiping much larger armies

[marcusreading]

The English longbowmen were some of the most dangerous people on the battle field during that era. Longbows have incredible range and power and every man above a certain age was required by law to spend a certain amount of time practicing every week. The end result was a contingent of strong, skilled and cheap fighters who could deal with most enemy armies before they even got close.

[Thanatos_Khan]

Thank you Cara but also you are breaking me as a man in my pursuit to prove a diplomacy lifestyle has merit

[limezebra]

I really like Konni raiders for that pursuit

[cekretone]

Tbh, by the time you reach last era, you can afford Varangians or armoured horsemen.

[isaacbruner]

I also love the crossbowmen as well. Really powerful for how cheap they are.

[molybdaen]

Light cavallery like konni are great at the start.
Because they can hunt down thr enemy when you are victorious - and guard your army when you lose.

[napolien]

Mubarizon!!

Now that a name i didn't expect in ck3.


In Arabic it means duelists

[neversarium]

Georgian monaspa are amazing considering their bonuses for mountains and the region being full of mountains