I don't build toward knights, right away... and stopped building Royal Knights, altogether. I find that towards the end of the early era I will capture enough provinces that one (or a couple) will have most of the requirements for Fuedal Knights (and sometimes Chiv) already present... and the buildings that are destroyed during the capture are usually the ones you want... with an exception of Knight buildup buildings. That or I'm just unlucky.?.

Spanish Jinettes are basically Mounted Sergeants w/o a charge stat... or a charge BUGLE for that matter (haha)... only faster... and throw javs... and trample routers with vigour! I use them if their home provinces (many of which hold iron) already hold the horse farmer line, but don't hold the spear line. Excellent versus dismounted armour, good versus unmounted light, and even fair versus archers/cavarly.


Quote Originally Posted by sulla1982ad View Post
Any shield unit. If you want to counter cavery use Pole units, or other Cavary. Also on the attack there not much cop.
I'll take this into consideration, but I can't imagine it working well with the English. The spear line develops billmen, a pole arm unit, for some odd reason.


Quote Originally Posted by Ironside View Post
It's all down to preferences in many cases, although the number of redundant units are plenty (lithuanian cav for example). And sometimes it's down to the faction rooster.
The first time I played a campaign I tech'd up to Lith Cav just for fun (easy is... well... easy). They have low support costs for cavalry, but their build up took FOREVER. Also, once I played the Danes without training ANY vikings... only allowing myself to bribe them. They still (can) have an incredible trade advantage versus anyone outside of the Med... and most inside of the Med.