I believe I read when ck3 first dropped, that a knight doesn't actually represent one person. It represents that person plus their personal retinue of 20 or 50 dudes or dudettes or whatever. I like that explanation personally. Makes it a little more believable when Ulrick the Barsark killed 800 people. It's not just a shroomed out of his gourd dude, it's 50 shroomed out of their gourds berserkers ;)

@Captain SSmolleTT Yup, completely agree with you, i've been looking for a workaround the engine limitations to make it so knights in army buff the army, but that's not doable outside of accolades.... if only "knight_army_modifier" was scopable outside of accolades....

what would be great if standalone knights got some penalties. One knight killing 50 levies sounds like a lot, but if he himself has levy support (more so just so not all the 50 said levies pile up on him immediately) then it doesnt sound quite as bad...

@Captain SSmolleTT with these numbers, modded the Knights all die due to low toughness, and kill about 600 levies

from a realism standpoint, this is still quite insane
it would be great to be able to make it so knights deal a lot of damage but only 5% of it would be hard casualties, to better mimic their effect on a battlefield (easily routing people but here we still have each knight kill 50 levies each all while being alone on the battlefield, not the best historically plausible depiction of medieval battles imho)

perhaps buffing the toughness higher again to compensate, but that's just gonna make battles longer in the end

That's quite a stacked army, what about something more grounded, like 12 knights, 16 prowess, 175-200% eff? I suspect they wont have much of an impact in that case...

@Captain SSmolleTT I've re-made my calculations

with 30 knight at 30 prowess with 400% knight effectiveness vs 6000 levies

"in a vacuum"
Vanilla : 2 rounds, 22 knights left
Modded : 5 rounds, 16 knights left

@Captain SSmolleTT y'oure free to make your own version mate

Why are the levy changes there?..
Also not sure how relevant knights are with just 15 damage per prowess