All three are still going to have, generally, a melee line, guns, and some cavalry to screen the guns. Yeah, I still feel like they play similarly. Volkmar's battle plans are very similar to Karl's but he's riding with demigryph knights with halberds (rather than above the battlefield) and using juiced up flagellants with a 50% missile resistance for his anvil.Īs for shootiest faction overall, which of the other shooty factions get fire mages? Because there's some serious synergy between the huntsmarshal fire arrows or flaming sword of rhuin and Kindleflame. Meanwhile Gelt, with his improved powder formulations goes for musketry and a front line that varies +12% to musketry damage is significant but his front line is mixed (he works really well with the Solland spearmen his bonuses push them over 100 armour). Do they? I know my Karl Franz works on a hammer-and-anvil Reiksguard + Greatswords approach with his elite anti-large Reiksguard which he recruits at a minimum of rank 5 and normally with gold chevrons, and elite greatswords to hold the line with.