Okay so there is 3 factions, you got the Knights, the Samurais and the Vikings. They are also frequently referred to as Bucketheads, Weaboos and Vikings. This is a guide dedicated to helping you chose what faction you want to play as, along with a short history of that faction in real life.

The Vikings are from north places like Norway and Iceland. They worship an upside down hammer to symbolize how they are too lazy to just get jobs and instead steal ♥♥♥♥ from poor irish people. The Vikings greatest contribution to the world was Skiing.

They are also Europes firefighting squad. Whenever a village is burning down on the european coast, Vikings show up and save all the women and bring them home, although the men and children usually die before the Vikings get there.

Vikings are also afraid of armor for some reason. Maybe the steel gets really cold or something? Cuz like, its really cold up there, maybe they get frostbite? I dont know, its silly, just put some damn armor on.

Theres like at least 15 people who play Vikings, but they always win the territory thing and stuff, i dont know why. Basically you play these guys if you just want to win all the teritory grabs and stuff.

So the Samurai are from Japan. They mostly just fought each other cuz there was this one family who thought it would be cool to invade the capital and kill the president or something. Eventually cowboys shoed up and killed them all with gatling guns and stuff it was pretty cool. Samurai fold their steel alot because the ore they use is total garbage. Their swords are super sharp but like they bend in half and chip and stuff all the time, basically total garbage.

The Samurai are basically 8th graders who dont like their lives and fantasize about being from a different country. They watch anime and think its cool to use random japanese words like "Baka" and "Desu".

Unsurprisingly, these edgelords have hands down the sickest execution moves in the game. Like seriously one, the Kensei has this one finisher where like you knock them onto their knees and then you thrust the Nodachi (thats what the dumb big kanata is called) down their shoulder and all through their torso. Its seriously sick as hell.

Join the Samurai if you have a waifu.

Knights are from europe. Everywhere from Britan to Turkey had knights, though the Turkey knights werent the Deus Vult knights so they dont matter. Most Knights were just chill ass dudes who chilled with the peasents they looked over when they werent fighting, until the crusades turned everyone psycho. Basically all the Knights decided that they wanted to liberate the Holy Lands from the Muslims, so they did. They killed like 99% of Jerusalems population. After that, they went crazy and killed each other for 500 years until Christopher Columbus started the american slave trade and ended the Dark Ages.

Knights wear really good armor. Technically the Weaboos shouldnt be able to cut through it, but they gotta balance the game. They also have the best weapons, with their steel being made out of real steel. In game though they are just generic knights. Nothing really fancy here, aside from Conquerers able to throw people 20 feet off a cliff, and Peace Keepers stabbing people in the kidney 15 times and then running away while they bleed to death. Knights also always seem to lose teritory because the Vikings and Samurai aren't Muslim, so they dont get the Deus Vult bonus. Theres like 400 Knight players which is way more than the Samurai and Vikings, but they still lose territory game, as i will explain below.

The two main types of Knight members are the Trump supporting Muslim haters who want to turn the middle east into a sea of glass, and Dark Souls players. Theres probably like 7 chivalry medival warfare players too. Maybe one from Mount and Blade? I dont know, its a dead game.

However, the Knights do have one thing that make them a good choice for any aspiring Crusader. The Knights have the best memes. I mean the weebs have some funny anime jokes and stuff, but like Knights are up at 2AM posting DEUS VULT all over the reddit page its seriously great. Unfortunately the Knights are too busy posting memes to actually play the game, and therefore lose all their territory.

("Deus Vult" means "God says so" and its what the crusaders said when they killed all the muslims in jerusalem)