Which culture is better in the game?

[El Taro]

I think aserai is very bad.I'm stuck between vlandia and batania.which one do you prefer?

[Kahvipannu]

I do love Vlandia heavy-inf, knights, and crossbows, they are really damn good.

[nfa-4]

Depends how you want to play, if you like heavy cavalry pick vlandia, if you like archers pick battania

[pfroddam]

No real difference at the moment as cultural perks are not implemented. As for later, it will probably tend to depend on what you want to do with your character. Look at the perks for a guide.

If you mean in terms of unit lists...the game is still being balanced, and there are a variety of claims being made about which is best, which is worst...along with various (flawed from what i have seen so far) ways of testing that. I personally like to take a multicultural approach to army composition, taking better units from each culture. ;)

[Swordmouse]

Khuzait is amazing - great, easily accessible cavalry and horse archers. OK ground troops.

Empire is good all-around, making them a great choice too.

Battania has incredible elite archers, as most know.

Sturgia

Vladia has the best crossbowmen, and decent foot units/melee cavalry.

[walrus]

Khuzait Khan Guards are arguably the most powerful unit in the game. They are only slightly worse at archery than the Battanian Fian Champions, wear heavy armor, and wield ridiculous glaives.

[Seeking Solace]

Aserai is the best. Vlandia and Empire in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

None of them work yet btw. They're all non-functional placeholders.

Edit: I think people are completely missing the question with their answers lol.

[pfroddam]

Originally posted by DC:

Khuzait Khan Guards are arguably the most powerful unit in the game. They are only slightly worse at archery than the Battanian Fian Champions, wear heavy armor, and wield ridiculous glaives.

Plus of course those mounts :)

[walrus]

Originally posted by pfroddam:

Originally posted by DC:

Khuzait Khan Guards are arguably the most powerful unit in the game. They are only slightly worse at archery than the Battanian Fian Champions, wear heavy armor, and wield ridiculous glaives.

Plus of course those mounts :)

Yes, they are the best horse archers in the game (sorry Imp Simps) and are incredible lancers to boot.

[phoon]

Vlandia: Best crossbowmen, decent polearms, and best heavy cav.
Sturgia: Best melee infantry, great shock infantry, javelins.
Khuzait: Mobile archer cav, easiest to get mounted units with this faction.
Empire: Jack of all trades, they have everything but they don't excel at anything.
Battania: Lightly armored but heavy hitting infantry/cheap shocktroops, best bowmen.
Aserai: sucks

[El Taro]

Originally posted by -Solace-:

Aserai is the best. Battania and Empire in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

None of them work yet btw. They're all non-functional placeholders.

Edit: I think people are completely missing the question with their answers lol.

I mean aserai bonus is bad,their troops is not bad.

[Keith 'Blood' Hanson]

Empire. Solid troop makeup, and have the best armor and weapons.

Vlandians are likely second best. Especially compared to their neighbors. Crossbows were nerfed, but are still quite powerful.

Third I'd say is..Khurgits? I forget how to type their name everytime... Mounted archer line is pretty strong. Crappy soldiers on the ground though.

Then it's just a crapshoot after that. Sturgians have good unit makeup in theory, but usually lack actual armor.

Battanians are light, and focus too much on 2H weapons.

Aserai are OK, but they are a bit too much like the Empire, just not as good armor or cavalry.

So if I had to pick between the two I'd go with Vlandians.

[Seeking Solace]

Originally posted by Aelius:

Originally posted by -Solace-:

Aserai is the best. Battania and Empire in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

None of them work yet btw. They're all non-functional placeholders.

Edit: I think people are completely missing the question with their answers lol.

I mean aserai bonus is bad,their troops is not bad.

Yes, and I mean that the Aserai bonus is the best bonus of all.

[Lord Holland of Wessex]

It does not really matter as you don't have to stay loyal or just recruit troops from any faction. But for faction perks i would say Valandia as gives exp bonus for training which is what i went with but am a vassal of southern empire.

[pfroddam]

Aserai is good if you want to be a trader, Vandian is good if you want to be a leader and get your troops trained up nice and quickly. For those wanting to be dominating sieges and rapidly building feifs, go Empire. If you want to lead an army of cav, go Khuzait...and the other two are a little mediocre really, but before i realised the perks are not implemented i did try to make a Bettanian forest guerilla fighter...there are a lot of forests to make use of...ill come back to that idea when the perks are implemented :D

[~ Fabulous ~]

aserai best because money worst is battania and the snow guy because speed in snow and forest? wtf is that I always at top speed no matter the terrain, not to mention, gold dude gold bling2 aserai have the most bling2 armor