Especially the Nord's as Huscarls are incredibly powerful. But the top tier infantry of the Rhodok's, Swadia, and Nord's will all beat any dismounted calvary. The hired blades have better survivability than sarranid or vaegir infantry, but are generally inferior to faction troops. It's kind of messed up that cavalry make better toptier infantry than most top tier infantry. I would reccomend using either Rhodok top tier infantry, Sarranid mamlukes, or Swadian knights. Capturing nord castles simply keep your troops out of throwing range and run in yourself to get them to waste their throwing axes, and then send your infantry up. The sharps are deadly accurate, and also capable in close quarters. eh, Rhodok Sharpshooters roflstomp marksmen unless outnumbered.

though i found out capturing nord castles is hard.

i have enough money so i just buy hired blades fro mtaverns and use them with vaegir marksman for ranged. Originally posted by Ergo Proxy:i only usually ever need a large army to take like a town.