Which one was the best?
>>79649568
The Teutonic Knights.
The balts had it coming.
Also, their conquest of Danzig was pretty metal.
>>79649568
The Knights Hospitaller.
>>79649568
There's an old templar church near my house, Germans bombed it in WW2. Cunts.
Were all knights across the entire scope of medieval history truly nothing but vicious rapists and thugs or is that just revisionist lies in the post-WW1 world where too much of the aristocracy was wiped out to defend themselves?
>>79649931
Wow looks like im a #cruzmissile now
>>79649568
>No Order of Santiago
>>79649789
Pretty much this, anon.
>>79650120
i am a #GazaRocket now
The Knights Templar had the noblest goals but the teutonic Knights were the most hardcore and bad ass.
>>79649771
holly fuck why are crusadefu's fucking hot?
>>79649568
SLAY THE HERETICS NOW
only the hospitaliers still exist today, so thats got to count for something
>>79650295
>>79650280
>>79649789
Wow, it´s been honestly a while since I felt a bit pride about my ancestry on here since germans usually have here a hard time (appart for the weird stormfront natsoc general threads)
Thanks guys! I really mean it!
>>79649568
They all did good works
>>79650077
I don't know about vicious thugs and rapists but I'm sure it had a very 'boys club' kind of attitude to it. Like a fraternity (in the college sense). No doubt they did get stuff done and had righteous, noble moments but they were also probably pretty rude and haughty at times, which could run the spectrum from 'clean my boots peasant lol' to the aforementioned full Clegane-mode rape and thuggery
>>79650507
Knights templar still do.
>>79649568
Knights Templar. They existed for an esoteric and traditional purpose and their entire ideology was the most perfected. It's also probably why they were killed
>>79649568
outta my way poorfags
>>79650821
he is not wrong.
>>79650846
they were killed because they made too much paper and the french king wanted it because the french
>>79650883
>>79649568
people here will say teutons bc they have a hard on for teutons but the best were the hospitalier
>>79650600
Well I'm basing my question off of stuff like Terry Jones Medieval Lives where he claimed without exception all knights were rampaging mass murderers and rapists and slaughtered six million innocent peasants every single day and so on.
>>79650290
>>79650432
There did actually exist female crusaders.
>>79650519
No problems. My dream is that Paradox will some day make the Teutonic knights playable in crusader kings 2.
>>79650077
They were a warrior caste who still consisted of people like you and me. They were bound by certain ideas such chivalry and religion, but calling them all noble or all thugs just don't work.
Also, there's actually descriptions about knights suffering from symptoms pretty similar to what we call PTSD.
>>79650919
wew lad, this bitch is dumb
holds the sword backwards kek
>>79650954
Onorabul memba Matongo
I ask you to withdraw this comment
>>79650902
go be a nigger somewhere else.
>>79649568
The Knights Hospitaller.
They served as an ancient naval police against ottoman and barbary pirates, and ran hospitals and missions.
Of the three, they lasted the longest, fought the hardest and survived the most.
>>79649568
out of the choices you gave me it's the Templar who were the most skilled
>>79650902
Did you wear that in the Falklands? It might have made your soldiers a little more effective.
>>79651064
dont bait me, mongol
The teutonic order was badass
>>79650919
post moar
>>79651149
kek no but i wear everytime i fug ur mum u know for protection from all the stds.
left u some bagels this morning btw :^)
>>79651258
rather don't-
>>79650519
>weird stormfront natsoc general threads
wot m8?
>>79651111
>quads
I am now aware where the word "Hospital" comes from
>>79651064
>wew lad, this bitch is dumb
holds the sword backwards kek
It´s actually a legit technique. In a moment of clear dominance the "Mordhau" is used to penetrate the armor (helmet) and kill the opponent once and for all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordhau
>>79649789
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Knights of Columbus bro. I'm a Knight of Malta Auxiliary. I still think the Hospitallers were the finest and remain the finest. Holy Sepulchre wasn't bad neither.
Templars have awesome music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b11-37Me_a4
>>79650519
Could you imagine charging a battle line with your fellow warrior monks on your warhorse? Must have been insane. To die for a purpose and cause you believe in, and for the Church.
>tfw you will never experience that
>>79651199
i have an entire set in high res but i can't post them all here because some of them are bigger than 4mb which is the limit on /pol/, shame!
>>79649568
The Samurai
>>79650883
Why are Americans such Poleaphiles?
Did the Orthodox Christians have their own knights?
>>79649568
Don't know what you mean by 'best'. Templar were most successful since they acquired massive amounts of wealth and were considered the most skilled. Hospitaller are still around today though and removed more kebab than the others. Teutonics helped convert the rest of Europe to Christianity and even after their king died and the rest of the German army went back to the Holy Roman Empire, they still went under the command of England and King Richard instead in holy duty.
>>79651111
We also got the great siege of Malta, where about 8000 Crusaders and allies stood up against 4800 Ottomans.
A siege that involved a scene where the defenders beheaded Turkish captives and shot their head as cannonballs against the Turks.¨
Which started as revenge against what the Ottomans did with their own captives.
>>79650934
Sort of. French King owed them a ton of money and it was easier to just kill them than pay it back.
>>79651258
DEUS VULT!
>>79651410
>wot m8?
Sry pal, but I really can´t stand the mindless glorification of german nationalism. I don´t oppose it necessearily but labeling hitler as "perfect" with no mistakes is something I just can´t stand
>>79651578
lmao how this nigga see wit his visor down haaaaaaaaaaaa
>>79649568
Templars-Warrior priest who were some of the greatest fighters of their time and who were also able to establish the worlds first banking system and who grew to such levels of power, the king had to take them out. Essentially real life Jedi Knights
Teutonics-Kraut copy cats, but instead of battling the armies of islam and establishing their own impressive banking system, invaded and fought much weaker eastern european pagans and stole all their shit.
Hospitaller-essenitally just literally who doctors and medics who would fight from time to time
Templars. They were gay. I'd join em. Woah man I'd join them right up.
>>79651702
Americans see Poland as Europeans mexico
No knights of Tomar?
>>79651564
It´s too much to take
>>79650883
While the Winged Hussars did have a time of glory, their total inability to fight in ordered formations and lack of discipline where they instead fought for individual glory made them get BTFO pretty quickly when the way of war changed.
>>79651064
>Mongol doesn't know about plate armors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi757-7XD94
>>79650077
It varied. Some were shit, some weren't. People are people. Same applies to the aristocracy in general. It had largely degenerated by the time people started overthrowing their kings or otherwise effectively switching to republics.
>>79649568
Eww, gross.
>>79651840
they are ceremonial armors they are usualy made of noble metals and probably almost never seen on the battle ground they indicate statue nothing more
>>79649568
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre
>>79649568
imo Knights Hospitaller
but the Templars are more popular because of pop culture (like Assassin's Creed).
>>79649789
>The knights who outright betrayed the church to become a secular state
>The best
Knights of Saint John lasted the longest but IIRC the Templars were the largest and most influential at any one point up until their destruction. At the end of the day however it was the non-Papal forces that accomplished the most.
>>79651361
Absolute utter bullshit, the Templars were not the most successful (hint: they all got tortured to death by some French faggot). The Teutonic knights managed to found a own state and were obviously the most successful crusaders (hint: the balts are still Christian the middle east is not). The hospitals were also pretty based since they fought the turks till the end.
>>79649568
It don't matter.
None' a this matter.
>>79649568
templiers actually captured Jerusalem
teutonic got rekt by slavs peasants
>>79651564
>yfw the people who would truly enjoy that join the army today.
Enough fantasising.
>>79649568
Teutonics accomplished the most.
>>79649789
>>79650280
>>79650295
>Attack less developed Europeans and submit them only after 100 years of near constant warfare
>Get wrecked by Lithuanians anyway. Twice.
>Attack Russians on a frozen lake fully armoured. Lose not only the battle, but all ambition to rival Orthodox in the region
>Christianize Balts. 800 years later and the only place where Christianity took serious root was former Inflanty(Polish Livonia) and Balts still have strong pagan sentiments
>Establish nobility and ruling elite that became so desperate it had to ally with already weaken White Russians and still got beaten by disgruntled peasants
>Become whining bitches when they no longer have privileges, despite retaining status as economically most powerful minority
>Claim to belong to these lands just as much of not more than the Latvians or Estonians. Run back to Germany after the first call from Hitler.
>Lose all their territory, culture base, populace and identity to Soviets
Bravo Germans.
>>79651785
Well considering most have you have been mentally castrated that comment doesn't really surprise me.
>>79651715
I think that's against the rules in East Orthodoxy or something.
>>79650954
DELETE THIS
POLAND DELETE YOUR FAGS IMMEDIATELY
>>79649789
Thought they later got their asses kicked by the Taborite Bohemian riff-raff!
Knights of Santiago FTW, though I'm biased on that one
>>79652166
do you have that image of the the happy merchant in Jerusalem that used to be posted in "roll for taking back the kingdom of Jerusalem" threads i've been looking for it for ages
>>79652293
>that family tree
kek, obviously that guy's mom wasn't so smart if she fucked an abo
>>79649568
Winged Hussars, nigga
>>79650194
My based leafbro!
Santiago y cierra!
>>79652373
krauts fags are the worst
if your order didn't fight the muslims and the jews you are heretics
>>79650954
>>79649568
Bunch of my ancestors were Knights Templar so I'm going to go with that.
>>79649568
english knights > everyone else
>>79652373
>manage to stand up against Lithuania, Poland, Novgorod and the Kalmar Union all at once
>Found Riga, one of Northern Europe biggest cities
>As soon as the Balt Germans left the Balts began sinking into poverty
>>79652619
Says the guys who funded both the Ottomans and Swedes against their fellow Catholics.
they were all shit
>>79651064
its called half swording using it as an axe
>>79649568
>Knights Hospitaller
What a beta name. What's next, the Knightly Nurses?
You guys have it all wrong about the Templars. People need to stop glorifying the Templar as some brave white knights when their origins are know.
They were the knights of the temple of Solomon, and were and still are the keepers of ancient knowledge gathered in the burnings of the Alexandria´s Library.
Solomon´s empire ruled, and by esoteric accounts, under the the assistance of demonic entities and the Templar are a branch of it. That´s why their symbol, which lives till this day, the Red cross, is the same cross present in most of all demonics Solomon sigils (pic related).
The globalization of the world, the banking system, the illuminatti, the masons, the rosa-crucians, the jesuits, the zionists, all come from Solomon´s time, and by Templar rule.
>>79651715
Too much competition for the East's deified nation states.
Cucks.
>>79649568
>>79653014
forgot pic
>>79652806
I'm pretty sure that is not a Templar, nor are they Balts. It looks like a depiction of Saint James Matamoros (the Muslim Slayer).
Teutonic Knights:
>Bad ass uniforms, by far the best out of all of them
>Probably the most hardcore overall
>Killing Baltic Pagans probably was one of the lesser concerns of defending Christendom, if at all, and they probably should have been deployed removing kebab
Knights Templar:
>Started out pretty based but devolved pretty quickly into a rich boys club and became practically useless
Knights Hospitaller:
>First holy order and existed longer than any others (still technically around today except they haven't been anything other than a fancy title giving organization since Napoleon holocausted them)
>constantly raided T*rks and were a pain in their ass
>Slaughtered an absolute shitload of Muslims at the Great Siege of Malta, as well as the battle of Lepanto
Overall I would pick the Knights Hospitaller for the best. If we ever get a non-cucked pope maybe we can have them revived with actual fucking weapons and have them defend the Mediterranean against shitskin invaders.
>>79652575
>>79651006
Well that's obviously bullshit, the peasants grew the food and if you killed them all the time for shits and giggles there would less food for you are your horses.
The peasants provided the food and in turn the nobility protected their subjects from invaders, brigands, bandits etc. If you had peace for 20 years you would probably be like ''why do i need to feed that knight? He doesn't do shit for me'' but when the raiders come you are probably happy to have a castle to run and hide in.
>>79650432
>>79651921
What the hell are you talking about? They were most famous for their discipline and the way they never broke ranks. Hell, they could perform a dozen of charges during a single battle, without losing formation.
The reason they disappeared in the 18th century was caused by the advancement in firearms. Their musket-proof armour simply didn't perform as well as it did in the 17th century. They simply became less cost-effective, and it was at a time, when Commonwealth was in economic decline.
>>79652806
>manage to stand up
But they didn't.
They lost almost all the important battles and could not subdue the Baltics for 200 years.
There were constant uprisings all around the place.
>Found Riga
Which was to busy being a tsundere Archbishopric to be of any direct use to Teutons
> Balt Germans left the Balts began sinking into poverty
Balt-Germans left in 1939 and World War 2 started in
1939.
>>79653216
>Hurr durr Balts are the niggers of Europe
DAILY REMINDER
POLISH KNIGHTS
ARE BEST KNIGHTS
POLAKS ARE THE SAVIOR OF EUROPE
GERMANS ARE THE DESTROYERS OF EUROPE
>>79653216
I am really sure it's from the battle of Las Navaras De Tolosa.
At the end of the battle the losing sultan ((Or whatever he was called)) is said to have chained his African Slaves to his tent before escaping. The Slaves then fight till the last drop of blood or something, and this is probably supposed to depict when the CHristians attack the camp.
>>79653235
I concur, Hospitallers were the best removers and defenders.
>>79652575
>tfw no 6.2" crusadefu femdom to bully the filthy saracen that i am and stuff pork in my mouth while sitting on my face
>>79649568
Hospital Knights are clearly the best because they are the only ones still around.
>>79649568
>>79651082
I can't believe a non-South African used this meme.
>>79653738
have you ever met a Pole
>Hasn't figured out about lone techno meme-knights yet.
Plebs.
Assist Mass at an SSPX parish.
Pray the Rosary, say the Office.
Learn how to pick locks.
Learn Metasploit.
Learn how to meme
Buy pistol and master it's use.
Everything else will follow.
>>79654398
tak ja jestem polak
>>79651006
They weren't all bad. He's a marxist historian which basically means he hates European culture and glorifies everyone else.
>>79654331
mugabe should be memed more specially when he got that hitler mustache
>>79654743
It fits perfectly on his bbq ribs like face.
>>79653014
But that's wrong, you Moor-on.
>>79652507
>>79653925
DEUS VULT
>>79651880
Tomar que? Que toman?
>>79652506
Deus vult mariconero!
>>79649568
Knights of malta best
>>79652803
>completely shat upon one "church of england" scism BS occured
>>79653721
>But they didn't.
>They lost almost all the important battles and could not subdue the Baltics for 200 years.
>There were constant uprisings all around the place.
I am not sure it's possible to lose all the important battles and have constant uprisings and still be able to for any time control all the coast from Ost Preussen to Narva.
>Balt-Germans left in 1939 and World War 2 started in
1939.
Yeah, and just before the Soviets began building all those Schools industries for you. Are you telling me Russians would ever lie?
>>79652373
This anon knows. The Teutonic Knights were shit at fighting and got BTFO by Litauen 24/7
>>79654131
Debunked
>>79649568
Knights Hospitaller. They're still around, and doing things. I think they're in the Americas to.
>>79649568
Knights Hospitallers still exists therefore wins.
You guys know the teutonic knights are still around too?
>>79649568
I was thinking of this today actually,the fucking synchronicity.
Are you guys actually NPCs and this world is a massive simulation?
>>79655987
They controlled the coast because it was inhabited by tribes 300-500 years behind in tech.
These territories they also controlled trough fear, ergo the uprisings.
>began building all those Schools industries for you
Are you telling me your beloved Germans lived in huts and earned their wealth through vigorous potato farming?
Or does your knowledge about Teutons end when they became vassals of Poland?
>>79656314
this
Which are the ones who could ride around doing whatever they wanted like plowing farmer's daughters and cuffing peasants with their gauntlets?
>>79656571
Would you know if you were a playable character?
>>79654398
yes and they're quite OK desu family
>>79656571
You're the NPC. I know I'm the main character because I've already died 4 times, and I keep re-waking on the day I died.
>>79656735
Yes, as well as taking land from Poland and Lithunia.
I don't think those were 300-500 years back in time.
And I doubt the rest of you were that primitive either, as you used to trade with the perfidious Gotlandius.
>>79656735
>Are you telling me your beloved Germans lived in huts and earned their wealth through vigorous potato farming?
>Or does your knowledge about Teutons end when they became vassals of Poland?
That part was just me trying to joke.
>>79649568
Pleb, please
>>79649568
Situational. In the middle east the Templars would win out because they would be less exhausted from the heat, owing to their white robes.
In the baltic wastelands in the north of Europe the Hospitallers would have the advantage in the day as they would be warmer, but their ability to think and defend themselves would be reduced at night due to the black clothing radiating more heat.
But the Teutonic Knights were essentially German so would see mass slaughter as a hobby rather than a war crime or a job, so maybe their psychological advantage of enjoying their work would give them the edge.
>you will never be a knight errant roaming and removing everywhere you go
>>79655951
no one tells us what to do not even the pope so we made our own lol
>>79649568
There ought not to be such a question, unity in brotherhood is the common goal we should once again strive toward to combat the muslim hordes.
>>79652293
Every day I hope this is just an troll and Ausposting. They really are the masters of leaving just enough room to make you think they might be serious under the shitposting, unlike Canada or Ireland.
If it's true that's really sad
>>79649568
Fuck you fucking faggots
>>79649568
All of them were pretty awesome. If you're ever in Israel, go look at some of the buildings and defenses they left behind. You'll realize that modern history class (at least in germany) doesn't do them justice.
obviously I like the Deutsche Orden/Teutonic Knights the most.
but they prob should have fought elsewhere.
Am I on /tg/?
ARMS AND ARMOR THREAD
St. John.
Temple was a bank, Teutons were land-grabbing genocidaires and wreckers.
>>79651880
>knights of Tomar
You mean the knights of the Order of Christ.
And yes, those indeed were the best.
>tfw you convert half of Africa, half of America, destroy the muslim hegemony in the east, conquer cities and fortresses in the Arabian Peninsula, save Ethiopia from Ottoman rule and plan to divert the Nile into the Indian ocean in order to starve and conquer Egypt all while the rest christendom is getting fucked in the ass by some towelheads
Oh but
>muh occultist practices
>muh friends with the jews
>>79649568
>tfw not Catholic so can't become Hospitaller
>>79653925
DEUS VULT
>>79651023
Send them a legal asking for them to be added / included on the inevitable Crusader Kings 3
>>79649568
The mongols.
>>79649568
>>79653925
meant to>>79653557
>>79652014
holy fuck they went hard at it. That was amazing to watch
Jesus fuck.
It's just like my historical strategy games!
>>79658428
>Crusader kings 3
I Think they are just going to continue dropping DLCs forever.
>>79651564
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
>>79650642
I'm an archer in the guild of the Holy Cross, still under Vatican orders and I can actually confirm this.
>>79656571
Have a REAL Black Templar.
>>79651564
Just go to Westboro Baptist Church rally dude.
>>79652380
Kek
German cucks amirite, 14/88
>>79653925
DEUS VULT
>>79649568
>pope calls for a crusade
>only outh americans , africans and slavs shows up because european are too busy being atheist
kek
>>79653925
Deus vult.
>>79649568
Longbow peasants
>>79650290
can I get this one without the hat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQpkug37a8
Based Jacques de Molay
>>79649789
Teutons had it coming.
>>79660978
>>79649568
Templar.
Hail Baphomet the Horned Lord!
>>79649568
Hospitaller early on, then Templar becoke more feared by the mulsims and wealthier.
Teutonic were fags that went around killing their brothers because they were afraid to fight kabob.
The best knights order, in terms of skill against the muslim encroachment, were in Spain
>>79656440
And the Knights of St John.
>>79661300
dubs of truth
reconquista!
>>79652228
>inexplicable leather straps
>>79652380
but we leafs are the epitome of mental castration :^(
>>79658318
You know several Protestants are in it too, right? Like Her Majesty Elizabeth II
>>79656571
Hello, my love! Back from some adventure I bet!
>>79654470
This.
>>79653925
DEUS VULT
BTFO BY POLAND
>>79659268
Please god, no! The engine is trash, they really need a way to optimize the game.
The Knights Templar.
The Templar order were the true sons of Christ that devoted their lives to defending the holy lands and its inhabitants, these men did battle with the Saracens wherever they found them. The Templars took a vow of chastity and poverty before becoming members and stayed loyal to their oath until the end. The Templars founded the first banking institution that loaned out money without interest, unfortunately this would be their downfall. In the late 13th the King of France and the Pope conspired against the order, seizing all of their wealth and assets. The trial of the Templars was the Middle Ages Nurenburg trials. Just like the national socialist of the 20th century, the Templar order, like the national socialist movement, was crushed and annihilated for trying to resist Jewish tyranny.
>>79661694
But I'm not a Christian at all. Shit like this makes me want to convert but I'm afraid of making the wrong choice
>>79653925
DEUS VULT
>>79662516
Go with your beliefs, not team perks.
>>79653925
DEUS VULT
>>79649568
My vote's on the Teutonic Knights for pretty much carving out their own nation.
>>79653925
DEUS VULT
>>79650883
Not so good against armor
