Which are avaible earlier, easier to come by AND cheaper.
In Kingdom they are slightly better but still are usually (for me) butchered by FEUDAL knights.
You might have noticed that I didn't mention the Gothic Knights and that is part of the false advertising: They are pretty shit in vanilla. They even have up to 2 missile cav units, Crossbowmen and Reiters, which combined with the Pavise Crossbows can seriously diminish approaching enemies. Cavalry has Imperial Knights, Infantry has Forlorn Hope and the dismounted counter part for the jus mentioned knights. The roster is pretty robust all around with having decent units in every category. But at least you are big enough to fall back and regroup. The former can lead to a rough early game since sometimes the AI is pretty bloodthirsty and declares war on you. HRE: The HRE has imo only 2 weaknesses, their position and false advertising.
MID: Scotland, Byzantine, Denmark, Hungary, Milan, Venedig, Mid, Novgorod, Turks and Egypt TOP: HRE, England, Sicily, France and Spain No mercenaries OR special units (templars etc) Doing this mostly from memory feel free to call me out:
