Best way to fight Khergits????

[ddrake]

You don't.

They are invincible. Even when mounted, they outrun you, circle around you while slowly impaling your face with arrows.

Avoid these pests at all cost.

Ah! Actually I find them the easiest faction to beat. In sieges they are the only faction against which I send in the heavy infantry immediately, without any previous softening of their lines. Khergits get smashed bad easily when on foot.
The only problem with them is how tedious it is to deal with them in the open field. Battles with them take 2x or more than with other parties.
But boring does not mean hard....

You really didn't understand what I meant did you...? 

Was it ironic? Sorry man, I have problems acknowledging irony. Haven't used it in a long time. Stopped in 1983, people were looking at me in a strange way.... 

 

[Bismarkpwns]

Everyone Hold this Position!
Stand Closer!
Stand Closer!
Stand Closer!
Stand Closer!
Stand Closer!

*facepalm* I didn't know you could do it repeatidly, jeez that makes large infantry battle a hell of a lot easier with my Rhodoks!

 

[Niv]

Just got back from slaughtering 405 of them with my party of 80, and 180 ally Vaegirs. Took a hell of a long time though! The only problem I find is roaming all around the map to catch them.

 

[noosers]

If you´re encountering them in hostile territory, try to lure them to a village and start raiding it. They will spawn booted and be easy prey to you.
And if you´re up for cheesy tactics, deploy your men in at the edge of the map, all dismounted behind their horses and let them slaughter those horseloves once they´re caught in the border of the map.

 

[Ludial]

play Khergits(fighting horse archers with horse archers is SO spiritually rewarding :receives spiritual orgasm.

Or build an archer company, set them on some high ground, and tell them to hold and spread out. This is how I hunt steppe bandits(besides with my company of lancers)

 

[Bismarkpwns]

I have found that the best way to take down the Khergits are with slow unprotected foot archers, for some reason they seem to have so much better accuracy than the enemy, even hired looters throwing stones seem more accurate once in range.  Of course you will take heavy casualties in the beginning melee, and the solution is spears.

Meaning, Rhodoks are the anti-Khergits, it is kind of funny how there is almost a rock-paper-sisscors thing going on

Troop for troop:

Khergits beat Swadians, Nords, and Vaegers
Rhodoks beat Khergits
Swadians, Nords, and Vaegers beat Rhodoks

(unless you are Ludial)

 

[Ludial]

Bismarkpwns wrote:

(unless you are Ludial)

thing is, I consider anything that is mobile and shooty(and most of all excelling at that) OR highly versatile to be generally superior to anything else. For me that is the base of a powerful army on which to build upon, such as the Marksmen with their decently average armor and most of all their two-handed axes, the Lancers with their bows and the Sharpshooters with their well thought out loadout for melee; well, yeah the Sharps not very mobile, but they`re versatile instead - so it`s like having mid to high tier footmen who are also superb missile troops. Who needs sergeants as a matter of fact, I`ve seen sergeants who have the same gear as the sharpshooters minus the crossbow

Now, for certain reasons I don`t consider sword sisters to be worth it. While they seem very versatile at first glance(cavalry with ranged weapons, `good` armor and sword and board), they seem to be somewhat weird. They`re not well rounded. They ride coursers and wear plate( ) and use crossbows. Certainly not a very effective loadout...

 

[String]

Meh, just send hordes of swadian knights after them, a hundred should do the job just fine.

 

[Ryan_Brook]

I just get myself a bunch of Mercenary Cavarly, my companions as all shined up bodyguards, and a LOT of arrows. Then I just order my men to charge, and shoot the Khergit bastards to the back while they run from us 

 

[Hietala]

Khergits? easy, that is just one cheap maths formula: Line o' Nord Huscarls + Rhodok Sharpshooters = dead mofocking khergits 
and that tactique works every time, against every faction

 

[Ludial]

Khergits? easy, that is just one cheap maths formula: Line o' Nord Huscarls + Rhodok Sharpshooters = dead mofocking khergits 
and that tactique works every time, against every faction

how about just a line o`Rhodok sharps? this way you get a greater number of shooty footmen for the same amount of men

 

[Hietala]

Khergits? easy, that is just one cheap maths formula: Line o' Nord Huscarls + Rhodok Sharpshooters = dead mofocking khergits 
and that tactique works every time, against every faction

how about just a line o`Rhodok sharps? this way you get a greater number of shooty footmen for the same amount of men

the huscarls stop the khergit charge, when the enemy formation breaks, i let them charge, and killing some of the confused enemies, when i notice that the enemy is doing a retreating thing to get their formations back, then i call my huscarls back. then i wait for the second charge... rinse and repeat...

the rhodok sharpshooters give effective backup fire and are decent backup infantry

 

[Ludial]

I use only sharps because I get both greater numbers of effective missile troops and decent infantry by doing this. Besides, a Rhodok door is bigger than a Nord dining plate

 

[Hietala]

Nord dining plate

but that dining plate saved my huscarls their lives a countless of times, y'know

 

[Ludial]

Nord dining plate

but that dining plate saved my huscarls their lives a countless of times, y'know

that dining plate leaves me no other options but to shoot the huskies in the nuts(which are gracefully uncovered by it ) and knees. Only thing the door doesn`t cover is the ankles, so it makes it a hell of a lot harder fighting Rhodoks.

 

[Swadius 2.0]

You guys do know that you could just stand near a village on the world map and wait for the khergits to attack you right? All of them will be dismounted while you keep your horses.

 

[Ludial]

You guys do know that you could just stand near a village on the world map and wait for the khergits to attack you right? All of them will be dismounted while you keep your horses.

true, but if I just stand somewhere I`ll definitely be attacked by more Khergs than I can handle. It`s big enough of a pain to run from their fast armies on the map. No single tactical approach is always the best, you know. It`s fitting in certain situations, but not always.

 

[Swadius 2.0]

It's effective in that if you have prepped your party to tackle the Khergits on foot, than you're going to be capturing some Lords and moving withing their territory in relative safety, so long as you're in distance to a village though.
Gives a bit of a strategical march through the Khergit controlled lands, like walking from water hole to water hole in a desert.

 

[Ludial]

It's effective in that if you have prepped your party to tackle the Khergits on foot, than you're going to be capturing some Lords and moving withing their territory in relative safety, so long as you're in distance to a village though.
Gives a bit of a strategical march through the Khergit controlled lands, like walking from water hole to water hole in a desert.

a strategical march can be easily interrupted if a good number of Khergits attack you at once. I prefer more something like a chevauchée/hit`n`run strategy. Decreases the chances of suddenly being surrounded and swamped.

 

[Swadius 2.0]

You always take your chances. Unless your army moves at the speed of two, you're not going to be instantly interrupted by the Khergits, they don't move as fast as you might think.
A foot based party may not be as fast as a khergit party, but they will have enough speed to make it to a village if you time your movements well.