Dark Knights:

[XWolfGhost]

I gotta say I like them so far, even if I haven't attempted to fight them yet  Considering they start with no fiefs what so ever it seems valid they are so strong, what is the point of them if you can simply kill them one by one after they spawn... I am just waiting for my fellow Lords to stop being cowards and go fight to see what they are like. Its nice to see something players can actually fear for once, since I have already gotten to a point where all the original Lords don't even scare me. If you guys do nerf them I hope it isn't by too much, or at least leave an option of making them stay the way they are for players who like a challenge for once  But I bet I will probably come back crying once I actually fight them...
Also, its rather coincidental that they start off by the Kingdom I am a part of

 

[Uberness]

Funny story with the Dark knights, day 74, just beat up a 500 strong group of nords, and despite some odd script errors everything went alright, so am taking my full inventory and group of prisoners to Suno to sell everything when I see the dark knights have invaded.

I figure whoever has to end up fighting them is pretty much screwed and will give me time to finish off the nords while there Lords are missing.

That was until I realised the Dark knights popped up right outside Suno, directly on top of me, and it was 1200vs200, and for whatever reason I only had 6 other troops and half health, likely related to a script error.


My suggestions for the DK's
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Randomize the date perhaps.
Day 100 or 150 minimum
Option of Several invasions instead of one, with increasing strength and numbers, say a 600 strong army popping up on turn 100, another at 125, thousands by 150, and the queen at 200 with 2000.

 

[SanDiego]

Oooh, Dark knight's have returned I remember the old days, when I would flee in panic when I saw only little group of them Allright, I personally don't think, that something is able to survive a long enough barrage of ivory archers And a heavy morning star will also help. Never saw anything survive Ivory archers. Not even paladins.

 

[noosers]

Wait till an army 2700 heads strong will siege your fortress. Even against a single Dark Lord you will prolly end up with a battle advantage of -5 or worse and Good Luck sealing the choke point with your small infantry force or peppering them with arrows with your five EA´s that spawned

Unless you´ve got a real Horde of them stacked in your castle.

 

[HSharp]

Wait till an army 2700 heads strong will siege your fortress. Even against a single Dark Lord you will prolly end up with a battle advantage of -5 or worse and Good Luck sealing the choke point with your small infantry force or peppering them with arrows with your five EA´s that spawned

Unless you´ve got a real Horde of them stacked in your castle.

I decided to help Rhodoks defend a castle from the Dark Knights for ****s n giggles, killed 3 with the bow then as they come up the ladder I realise that there are only 4 people blocking the ladder, morningstar takes out 2 more then they surround me and I get knocked unconcious . Nice to see battle continuing after getting knocked out, was first time, however seeing 50 Dark Knights surrounding the reinforcement spawn zone where 5 people spawn was a bit bad to watch.

My poor army of Lady/Lordless Knights crushed away

 

[blix2006]

actually from what i hear they are in fact the result of an epic battle between Chuck Norris and Ted Nugent.  when they fought the impact was so powerful that they actually fused, and became the only entity in existence capable of delivering a roundhouse kick from a compound bow.  Well, eventually Chuck Nugent or Ted Norris (there is no definitive information of the name of this being) settled down and married a mortal woman, the Dark Knights are their offspring.
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the name you are looking for is CHUGENT

 

[The Mercenary]

Oooh, Dark knight's have returned I remember the old days, when I would flee in panic when I saw only little group of them Allright, I personally don't think, that something is able to survive a long enough barrage of ivory archers And a heavy morning star will also help. Never saw anything survive Ivory archers. Not even paladins.

A Dark Initiate is as strong as a Swadian Knight. Sooo...

 

[sequeezey]

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Randomize the date perhaps.
Day 100 or 150 minimum
Option of Several invasions instead of one, with increasing strength and numbers, say a 600 strong army popping up on turn 100, another at 125, thousands by 150, and the queen at 200 with 2000.

Umm, yeah. They have a toggle for this at the camo menu. You can put it to 200, I think, or you can completely just turn off the invation.

 

[MrRoy]

What you must do is include an option to join them 
I also want to play evil and kill every nation... Also a way to recruit some of their troops haha.

Doing quests for them and giving them our oath, gain rep, get a special item when you get 50+ rep, etc etc, that'd be epic!

Everyone wants that, you can't say no!

 

[Tismanu]

Hah so I finally defeated  them in open combat by forcing all my troops into a spear wall to dismount all of them and then go around doing counch lance damage to them. But dear god, how the heck can a commander take about 2 full speed counch lance damage. -_- I personally hate whoever gave merc the idea for this but it is a challenge.

So the only ways I found to defeat them is either to do as I mention above, pull them into a siege and pelt them to death with arrows, bolts and everything you got, then retreat and do it again so the tower resets.(If its a ladder your screwed lol.)

 

[XWolfGhost]

What you must do is include an option to join them 
I also want to play evil and kill every nation... Also a way to recruit some of their troops haha.

Doing quests for them and giving them our oath, gain rep, get a special item when you get 50+ rep, etc etc, that'd be epic!

Everyone wants that, you can't say no!

I can, would be far too easy. Fun for a few hours then it would be just meh

 

[Dualhammers]

What you must do is include an option to join them 
I also want to play evil and kill every nation... Also a way to recruit some of their troops haha.

Doing quests for them and giving them our oath, gain rep, get a special item when you get 50+ rep, etc etc, that'd be epic!

Everyone wants that, you can't say no!

I can, would be far too easy. Fun for a few hours then it would be just meh

I can as well because of the reasons above and because your sheer exuberance annoys me.

 

[SanDiego]

When you want to play someone uber, go play Rise of Khergits, there are some really uber troops I think there are even dark knights

 

[haste]

I like it that there will be super strong characters, but this is just over the top... that's the problem.
I hope they become more realistic... like the same stats as a crusader or so.

 

[XWolfGhost]

I like it that there will be super strong characters, but this is just over the top... that's the problem.
I hope they become more realistic... like the same stats as a crusader or so.

Strange, I don't think they are strong enough. They are already down to only two castles and will likely be destroyed soon. They did have 7-8 at one point so they are obviously beatable. I never even got a chance to fight them really  Too busy getting thousands of arrows in me from sieging damn Khergate Khanate, hate them more then Dark Knights at the moment.

 

[noosers]

In that case you were most likely lucky enough to have large lords armies who don´t run and the monarch as marshall who´s going after them. I fought one battle againt the Dark Knights and I had to use autocalc. having quite an advantage in numbers it turned out pretty decent. Therefore I guess the AI will do pretty good against them -if the odds are favouring them.

In a player battle however, they will most likely eat your army alive. unless you´re a Khergit defending a nasty castle with enough heavy infantry to block a chokepoint.

And Hooray for Kherghit castle defense! Khergit Siege Tower Castle/Town usually gives me shivers and could cause nightmares till you breach the walls...

 

[XWolfGhost]

The point is you have to work together with your kingdom to outnumber them. They eventually spread themselves too thin going around taking all the castles that you can take them out one by one. You can't really fear them if you are able to take them out by yourself.

And tell me about it, all of their towns are at least 400 size garrison thanks to a change in the latest version. Their capital is 500 strong...I wont even attempt it, just wait for my Monarch to have a go at it. My army of Ivory Archers wouldn't have feared them 

 

[Tismanu]

So I think I have the worst luck possible. So I stake a claim for my own kingdom in the little corner near rivencherg and since I forgot when I had the dark knights invade set as I was roaming around Nord land and I saw the trigger message and guess who was at my castle as well as my capital city? Dark knights. Joyous aint it? Lol and they had a few lords around each of the siege area so there was no way I could get into town to fight the battle without getting chased as I get close. Sadly to say my kingdom lasted about 20 days before it got dismantled by them -.- lol

 

[The Mercenary]

What you must do is include an option to join them 
I also want to play evil and kill every nation... Also a way to recruit some of their troops haha.

Doing quests for them and giving them our oath, gain rep, get a special item when you get 50+ rep, etc etc, that'd be epic!

Everyone wants that, you can't say no!

I can. That would basically be adding a "Win" button to the game.

Also, how do you know the Dark Knights are evil? Perhaps they are sweeping oppressive empires from the face of the world.

 

[Mini Marine]

but they are dark knights, dark is inherently evil isn't it?

You could always change them to Red Knights, spreading the scourge of socialism to every corner of the earth :p