Khuzaits don't need no nerf. You need to fix the battle ai FIRST. How are we supposed to make any sort of judgement on how the kingdom is doing when soldiers don't even use shields?

Kuzhaits are so easy to defeat FFS. Why you guys whining about it so much. Maybe your tactics suck. Maybe your entire strategy is wrong. There is no need to nerf them in singleplayer. Idk about mp. Btw no, I'm not playing on easy.

Hello! I guess I'm pretty late, but still. My current character decided to side with Empire, and had a lot of experience fighting those annoying guys.
So, I use mostly battanian army (but imperial archers, I guess, will do too, just with more casualties), with a little bit of imperial legionnaries (not a fan of mixed armies, but found it fitting to use some help of friendly locals, since my char is an imperial archon, after all). No horses, even for myself or my companions.
My usual roster is that: roughly 100 battanian archers split in two units 50 men each on flanks, and a shield wall of 70 legionnaries and wildlings holding center. Battle started, left flank of archers facing left, since horse archers usually start circling from that direction, and where they start - they end, dropping like flies. Meanwhile shield wall facing enemy infantry, soaking up arrows like there is no tomorrow and holding the line. Archers on the right facing the infantry too, but from the right flank, so shields will not help your enemy aganst arrows from them and javelins from the wildlings at the same time/
Usually when infantry force arrives horse archers is long gone, so archers on the left can join the fun, quickly decimating enemy infantry in crossfire (or, eh, cross-shooting, since there is no fire involved).With this tactic fights against Khuzaits became almost trivial. Don't forget to use loose formation for your archers and manipulating direction they are facing manually.
Hope it helps, sorry if my English isn't very good.
AI doesn't care about trees and forests just increase the relative disparity in party speed (-1.4 to a party moving at 6.5 speed is less meaningful than -1.4 to a party moving at 5.3). This isn't real advice and my problem, again, is not winning field battles vs the AI. Horse archers can be OP despite being able to roflstomp the AI. For example, horse archers can beat a force over 5x their size in the player's hands. What other units can do that, and do it so reliably all while being able to pick and choose their battles? It's completely OP.

They're AI, they are just walking money bags that give you prisoners to recruitKhuzaits are busted broken,anyone who says otherwise probably hasn't played against them.
Khuzait marksman is a great unit, forest bandits are good and fian champions are probably the best unit in the game. If you position a archer line well they will absolutely destroy an equal or lesser sized HA formation (and anything else), not to mention if you back them up with your own HA formation to flank.Spamming Archers isn't gonna work,because only Tier 4 and 5 Imp/Aserai can do something effective against them


It's actually not khuzaits in battle that bothers me, it's khuzaits on the campaign map. It just seems insane that their armies end up passively faster than the others, they get to pick and choose their battles just via the way the general AI works.
I still haven't had a game where khuzait the faction wasn't doing very well...

I'm sorry you're sad, guess you'll have to wait for the balance updates like everyone else.I'm so sad players take defense of Khuzaits
not in my games lolTaking over the map in less than 2 years.
They rarely have bushwakers and never seen a fian on themHaving the most powerful units in High and Low tiers
I don't think "wait for the horse archer to get here and shoot them all" is hard...-Beign hard to beat due to lack of counterplay
Have you played with death enabled? They don't come back when they die in battle, and no relation lossHaving a lot of Clans with multiple parties,no matter how many times you beat them they

Horse archers are still the best army against a player. Infantry of archer heavy armies just dont have any chance against a player. They cant do almost any damageYes, this. While horse archers are good in battle, a decent player with archers and cav can ultimately deal with them in that arena.
Yes use Archers blah blah blah more of your "TIPS" were already employed.
Yes dudes,everyone uses Archers against Horse Archers,your tips are useless and not helpful.
-Taking over the map in less than 2 years.
Horse archers are still the best army against a player. Infantry of archer heavy armies just dont have any chance against a player. They cant do almost any damage
I am playing as Sturgia. And i never ever help my armies. Becouse they perform on actual battles so badly against Khuzaits that autoresolve is actualy better.
When facing Khuzait try these tacticsI'm so sad players take defense of Khuzaits just based on preference and not gameplay wise,we get it dude,you cringe Genghis Khan into a save file trying to Throat Sing,stay in line,we all did play Khuzait and broke our vocal cords trying to Throat Sing...also..it isn't hard pressing F1+F3
10/10 times Khuzait take over the map,no DOUBTS,no made up conspiracy w/e,it's a fact that you know.
YES!You can beat them!Yes you will do so,I took 2 of their cities and 4 castles by myself on realistic before I deleted my save file because Sturgia and NE got deleted AGAIN.
But this doesn't mean I had a good time fighting them,nobody does,it isn't fun fighting against them because they are BROKEN in all matters.
Yes use Archers blah blah blah more of your "TIPS" were already employed.
Yes dudes,everyone uses Archers against Horse Archers,your tips are useless and not helpful.
Nobody used Shock Infantry against them,I guarantee...maybe the AI.
And the dude with the 2 videos,my dude,I'll point you the error of your ways.
Firstly,you fought a Vlandian Lord that switched to Khuzait,no doubt Khuzait conquered the map in your gameplay to make such a distant lord to switch sides on the other side of the world,but you'd still take their defence,really sad.
Secondly,you didn't fight any HA,you fought Melee Cavalry which has been scientifically proven to suck ass.
Thirdly,you didn't even comand your battles,you just F6 them?!
Fourth,you lost so many troops it;s hard to call that a WIN,especially against melee cavalry,omg.
Here's the REAL problem,once you look past your save where you beat Monchug's army of Nomads and proceeded to come here and say "THEY ARENT HARD TO BEAT" and dive deep with your eyes into their units' eqiupment,you might think the devs smoked something before putting that on there.
Alright,let me educate you my Khuzait's brain players.
Khuzait Raider(T3 HA)has better Armor and Bow and more Arrows than the easiest accesible T3 and T4 archers from Imperial lands,which are the only archers that MIGHT stand up to them,press N and check it yourself.
Not only that but T4 KHA have actually better armor and BOWS than all T4 ranged units,with the exception of B. Heroes,but they are noble troops so we don't count them.
Darkhans rivals and sometimes beats the Legionaries,Veteran Warriors and Oathsworn in either one of the 3 elements,weapon,armor or throwable.
Quite the achieved unit that goes through better tiers than Sturgia and Batttania does,because yea...BALANCED Khuzaits are BALANCED.
Their Melee Cavalry is almost as good as Vlandian ones.almost..1 unit that might lose in a contest for the better type of cavalry,so yay.
Their foot archers are 2nd best base archers in the game,they are below Palantines in terms of Bow and Armor but better Atlethics and more Arrows,but they beat Aserai Master Archer in all terms,armor,bows and arrows.
Why are you arguing after I put these 4 elements of Khuzait needing desperate nerfs.
-Taking over the map in less than 2 years.
-Having the most powerful units in High and Low tiers.
-Beign hard to beat due to lack of counterplay.
-Having a lot of Clans with multiple parties,no matter how many times you beat them they just keep coming back.