why knights are killing my villiger , where is knights spirit, it should be horseman’s work, their attack damage to high and charge seems too week.
And the archers, why so powerful in imperial age ?
Knights are supposed to be strong, and archers are not strong in imperial, horseman, knights, maa, mangonel, springald all counter them.
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About Knights killing Villagers
Yeah, knights are supposed to hunt villagers, it’s an action called “guerrilla warfare”. In Spain it was called "Algara", and in Muslim kingdoms “Ghazi”, in France “Razzia”. At least it’s historically correct that cavalry does it, which in Europe was mostly heavily armored nobles; in Muslim kingdoms, they used light cavalry.
This is practically what the English also did in the French and Scottish countryside during the Middle Ages.
The Knight Spirit is a myth, like Japanese Bushido. In the Middle Ages, in Europe and Japan, the only thing that mattered was winning, and to do that you had to kill lots and lots of people.
The ideal of the honorable knight, or one who pursued just goals, was invented in Europe during the 16th century, when most nobles stopped fighting, and printing presses could print many “Chivalric Novels.” In these, knights were nobles who attended parties, defended their fiancées or platonic loves, and fought against various villains, if not mythological beings in distant lands. Don Quixote existed precisely to poke fun at this genre, which apparently became so saturated that there were hundreds of novels that were almost the same, the same event currently occurring in the Isekai genre.
The ideal of the honorable samurai, who used a katana was invented in the 17th century by the Tokugawa family as a form of political propaganda, so that people would not remember the time of the Sengoku Wars and would adapt to the new type of samurai who acted as military police for the government, with short swords, which were in fact “inferior” to the other weapons used during the war (yari spears, naginatas, odachis, arquebuses).
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