bsapaka said:
Just wondering, why is it called "Knights the Last Battle"? I was thinking "Knights of the Last Battle" or "The Knights' Last Battle" might be more suiting.
Well my opinion is, as there are more than few slavic speakers involved in majority of work on this mod, maybe the name came from distorted translation in translator or something similar.
But theres nothing to back this up.
The name itself is appropriate and not at the same, it depends from which angle you see it.
As was already mentioned time since lets say 1445 (institution of french lances fournies) actually saw knightly cavalry at its best, fighting in disciplined formation (at least in France), but in general history the dogma is that infantry became dominant since 14th century, while knightly heavy cavalry dominated since battle of Adrianople untill few battles in 14th century in which well placed infantry was able to cripple knights several times. In this mod the its maybe mostly the topic of glorified swiss.
Yet in reality it was much more complex, well ordered cavalry charge was able to defeat infantry in any era, on the other hand well placed infantry was able to withstand most cavalry in any era as well. Swiss specifically rather got lucky against burgundians (in context of army of Charles the Bold, which was combined arms force very advanced on its age) than anything else and with the exception of Grandson, where they were almost defeated, they were allways just one part of an army at both Morat and Nancy supported by substantial number of cavalry themselves supported by their allies.