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Best In Life - Imperial Knight Order Quest [Warhammer Fantasy]

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Do you know where I could get more information on that fight in English because the wikipedia was very vague and there is no way a piece of fire hardened word is penetrating a steal shield or a set of munition plate. Also it sounds like most of the Spaniards were not wearing full armor.
 
'Pokes @Swordomatic '

Err Swordo? Seeing as you've locked the votes, you might want to get around to threadmarking the Rumour Mill now like you said you would once that was done.
 
The whole archery discussion is a moot point, anyway; we know only one person died to archery, and that was an initiate who probably lacked full plate. Two knights died because one got dogpiled, dragged to the ground and shanked after the bandits got his visor open, and the other because he got caught on the wrong end of a smithing hammer. The bandits beat us in melee, simple as that.
 
Hey what do you guys think of the idea to evolveing our knight order into an order of demigryph knights in the future.

Obviously we should do this later on once we set up and have a steady flow of recruits 0and knights but having demigryphs would be amazing.
 
Honestly? I'm not in favour.

Again, Demigryph Orders have the highest turnover rate of applicants in all the Empire, because most of the people trying to join them, people who would in other Orders (even the Reiksguard) make for perfectly fine knights, get torn limb from limb by the creatures they're trying to tame. I suspect Inhuman Drillmaster might improve the odds a bit there, but it's probably still going to be in terms of "one in four potential aspirants survives rather than the usual one in five."

I'd rather have four times as many knights and train them to a razor's edge, thank you. Besides, Demigryphs are expensive - just think about how much a birdlion eats. Some quick comparisons with how much apex predators like big cats eat, how much horses eat, and scaling up to account for a Demigryph's larger size... We're talking like, anywhere between 30 to 50 kilos of heavy protein per day, and we're the ones who'd have to pay for that on top of training and penning costs.
 
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Imrix said:
Honestly? I'm not in favour.

Again, Demigryph Orders have the highest turnover rate of applicants in all the Empire, because most of the people trying to join them, people who would in other Orders (even the Reiksguard) make for perfectly fine knights, get torn limb from limb by the creatures they're trying to tame. I suspect Inhuman Drillmaster might improve the odds a bit there, but it's probably still going to be in terms of "one in four potential aspirants survives rather than the usual one in five."

I'd rather have four times as many knights and train them to a razor's edge, thank you. Besides, Demigryphs are expensive - just think about how much a birdlion eats. Some quick comparisons with how much apex predators like big cats eat, how much horses eat, and scaling up to account for a Demigryph's larger size... We're talking like, anywhere between 30 to 50 kilos of heavy protein per day, and we're the ones who'd have to pay for that on top of training and penning costs.
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Bu...but my Murder kittens :sad:

And while yes we may have less knights overall they will be better knights and demigryphs are literal monsters and in my opinion I would say one demigryph knight is worth more than 4 regular knights.

Also we aren't really going to be hurting for cash we still are a Empress and our brother is the Emporer so if we really needed cash we have a way.

Not to mention all the missions we would get that will pay well for demigryph knights.
 
Atam the Ork said:
And while yes we may have less knights overall they will be better knights and demigryphs are literal monsters and in my opinion I would say one demigryph knight is worth more than 4 regular knights.
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'Kay. I wouldn't say that one Demigryph is worth more than four knights, and I wouldn't be convinced even if they were. Multiple knights offers more than just combat power, it lets us take on more missions and soak more casualties. It also feeds on itself, because if we become a Demigryph Order, plenty of knights will refuse to join us, because such a high proportion of the knights who do die in training. Stick with horses, have more knights, become large and impressive order which attracts more knights, batter them into being the best of the best. Maybe pick up some Demigryphs later for the Inner Circle heroes who have already proven they've got the chops to do it with reasonable chances.
 
Why not have it both ways? The primary core of our Order could be good ol-fashioned horse mounted knights, with a small number of specialized squads of dymigryphs to be used as elite troops.
 
Having a small elite unit with more exotic mounts, like demigryphs, would be good to form in the future.
 
I'm still holding out for big burly Foot Knights who would be the cheating armor-reliant western mercenaries in a wuxia film and make Chaos Warriors cry.
 
Going forward you can decide the shape your order will take, whether you will have specialised squadrons of monstrous mounts, have your Inner Circle consist entirely of Demigryph Knights, or anything else. It might even be possible, if expensive and difficult, to acquire Chracian beastmasters to try and figure out a better way to tame a Demigryph.
 
There's also Parravonese Pegasi (good luck), Goblin Dire Wolves (Ulric save us), and Asrai Great Hawks (hahahaha) as mounts that inhabit the Grey Mountains of Reikland.
 
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Lets just have ALL THE MOUNTS! Every knight gets a different mount! Here, at the Knights of the Iron Arm, we approve of diversity!
 
Atam the Ork said:
Our eternal rivals always trying to take away our fun but we will not submit without a fight!!! :tongue:
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I don't think trying to manage a zoo of animals, most of them willing and eager to eat each other, all the while feeding them (and some are predators!), is fun for most of people.

Well, maybe some here played Theme Zoo or something and would enjoy the same, but on the march, without any enclosures and with magnitudes higher costs of food. For such it'd be fun.
 
Pegasi would not be horrible mounts for some of our knights if we want a heavy quick moving unit and they eat the same stuff regular horses do just in lager amounts so they would not be as big an issue when it comes to logistics. We would just need to work for it because the Empire while it has access to the winged horses it can be hard to get them in any lager amounts because the horse-fuckers on the other side of the mountains try to hog them all.
 
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