Konni are Broken!

[Claudius]

So, the polish light cav can wipe the floor with entire stacks of armies. Whereas most army compositions will require 3-4 battles to wipe an enemy army, the konni deathstack can wipe armies in 1. Even if the enemy has pikemen, it will only reduce damage by like 5%. The default light cav is better than most unique units anyways, but the Konni are the best thing in the game by far

[GorishiDan]

Konni is the light cavalry with the highest pursuit, right? i think i know which one... i'll check it out

[Ashantai]

I would disagree actually. Because with really high level MAA play you will never use or need the pursuit stat as you are stack wiping the enemy before then, I think a flat out higher attack strength is better.

For instance my current army with a 3/4 updated domain of 12 counties and 2 x level 2 duchy buildings gives them 215 attack and 54 defence.
Konni also have worse terrain restrictions, being bad in quite a few terrain types.

I'm not sure what Konni would give in the same situation, but my point is that any MAA can be broken if given enough buildings. The AI will never provide adequate counters to you and by a couple of centuries in you can win any war with just your MAA and only use levies to carpet siege.

So in summary I'd say no one type of MAA are broken, just that in general the bonuses you can get with them makes all MAA beyond a certain point broken.

[Claudius]

Originally posted by Ashantai:

I would disagree actually. Because with really high level MAA play you will never use or need the pursuit stat as you are stack wiping the enemy before then, I think a flat out higher attack strength is better.

For instance my current army with a 3/4 updated domain of 12 counties and 2 x level 2 duchy buildings gives them 215 attack and 54 defence.
Konni also have worse terrain restrictions, being bad in quite a few terrain types.

I'm not sure what Konni would give in the same situation, but my point is that any MAA can be broken if given enough buildings. The AI will never provide adequate counters to you and by a couple of centuries in you can win any war with just your MAA and only use levies to carpet siege.

So in summary I'd say no one type of MAA are broken, just that in general the bonuses you can get with them makes all MAA beyond a certain point broken.

This argument can be made for any MAA given a collection of building bonuses. So I was more so just talking about flat stats

[Zortex]

I tend to always stack light cav for my MAA. Just because pursuit is so convenient in the early game. Having stacks you've beaten come back again and again is annoying!

[Ashantai]

That's fair, their base stats are good and the AI is less likely to build pikemen early to counter them.

I'm still finding crossbowmen the most OP of MAA due to general (though tech locked) availability and with a good set of base stats.