Ck2 Best Cultural Retinue. Like in CK3, though, specialized cultural retinues are a cut above t
Like in CK3, though, specialized cultural retinues are a cut above the generic ones — if you can get, say, camels or horse archers or Arab camels are better, so technically just light cav (such as Iberian cultural retinue) are really the 5th place composition. - 2 the other cultures are best off copying the english and producing a retinue with a 1:1 ratio of skirmisher retinues to defensive retinues. You get pretty high damage in skirmish, and if you stack them in one flank you can For CK2, light cav and defense are generally the best generic retinues. I heard that as many pikeman as possible is the best but in playing i have found light infantry retinues As always, a Welsh/English culture with Welsh/English generals and thus longbows plus skirmish remains at the top of the list even with the nerf to archers. Merchant Republic 4. Originally posted by Doc: Depends on who I'm looking to collect a list with all the best Retinues for the different Government types. Both defeat anything in both cost efficacy and numbers, but if you're willing to go with The Iberian retinue (500 light cavalry) has a bad reputation, but mixing it 1:1 with the generic cavalry retinue gives a pretty good result. If it's early Their pike bonuses are unfortunately straight up inferior to Scottish pikes, but their cultural tactic is much more reliably activated and doesn't have the usual pike weakness to heavy infantry. Tribal 3. I'd like to know how useful are the retinues of each culture, and what would be the ideal composition for them, taking into account the historical composition of their armies. -First I have the Now, assuming your goal isn't to just get as many men as possible, what's the best retinue composition in your opinion? For generic retinues, I found that mixing Skirmish and Defense tends to work the best. Do they cost a lot? Do they defend well against vikings? Etc Good Morning :) I love Byzantine Empire and the Cataphract. Here we get to the tl;dr of the entire tier list, which is that most of the time light skirmish is your best option. Camels used to suck, but with the nerf to archers, they have moved 18 juni 2025 Not only do they have great stats for their cost, and a good spread across skirmish, melee and pursuit (so you can use pure Camel flanks) but they ignore basically all terrain penalties for some reason. For what retinues to get, the defense retinue is widely considered to be the best generic retinue, though for cultural retinues the Scottish Schiltron retinue and the Italian Pike retinue are . I haven't tried it personally, but I guess this also works for hussars From all the different retinue types you can recruit wich one is best as a stand alone unit? I am new to the Ck2 (coming from Eu4) and the combat mechanics, especially retinue compositions are very hard to understand. Feudal 2. 3) My personal favorite is the one that's 100 Light Infantry and 50 Light Cavalry but if you have a HI culture Usually a pure Cataphract retinue but it's very expensive to create and maintain and only really comes into it's own when it is an army force all by itsel. Why would I ever raise other Retinues? What are the uses for heavy/light cavalery, or for heavy infantery? Or horse archers? Or Against generic computer levies the best retinue is X Goendendag militia + 1 defense with an Italian commander. (1) Cultural retinue bonus that applies to specific retinue armies when raised, which is based on ruler's culture at the time the retinue are raised. If X is > 15, you can throw another defense retinue in there. Most cultures unlock cultural retinues and cultural buildings in castles, resulting in different army composition. Horde 5. this will yield a ratio of 60% archers/30% pikemen/10% heavy infantry. 1. Tested this out myself Objectively the strongest cultures in CK2 are scottish or italian due to their cultural tactics and pure pike retinues. Some cultures also unlock special events, decisions, government types Hello! I am currently playing CK2 and i am trying to figure out the best retinue to use. Look for the third post in the short The game will take anything in the mod folder and merge it or overwrite the base game files, so if you have changes to the retinue file in the mod folder, the game will use it. The top 3 are literally Pikes, Pikes (Scottish and Italian cultural versions, can't remember what order) and then Defense (which is mostly Pikes). Currently, I just spam the cheapest (in regards to size). Is there a more simplified list for optimal retinue composition for each culture? How exactly do they work? I've read that they're basically a standing army, but I'm still confused. Khazar: One of A while back someone crunched all of the numbers for combat tactics triggers and cultural bonuses and determined the best three retinue compositions. I read various composition for a retinue: - 2 Defence / 1 Cataphract with greek commander for Embolon Charge Formation. The other types, if they aren't already covered I had a 15k strong retinue in a game in which I controlled about a quarter of Europe.