Deucey  | 04 Apr 2012 8:52 p.m. PST |
Favorite Military Order A Hospitaller
B Templar
C Teutonic
D One of the Spanish Orders
E Dobryn
F Other Baltic (Dobryn / Sword Bros)
G "Ni!" (not interested in Crusades) |
| Karpathian | 04 Apr 2012 9:09 p.m. PST |
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| Sergeant Paper | 04 Apr 2012 9:13 p.m. PST |
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| greatwhitezulu | 04 Apr 2012 9:19 p.m. PST |
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| ricepot | 04 Apr 2012 11:07 p.m. PST |
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| plutarch 64 | 05 Apr 2012 1:48 a.m. PST |
B I once went on a date with a girl whose surname was Templar, and remember thinking that wouldn't be a bad surname to have. We had a good (k)night out as well, if memory serves. |
| GreyONE | 05 Apr 2012 1:50 a.m. PST |
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| Glengarry 4 | 05 Apr 2012 3:12 a.m. PST |
C & F – I've always had a soft spot for the Northern Crusades, so often forgotten and sadly neglected. |
 BobTYW | 05 Apr 2012 4:03 a.m. PST |
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| Waco Joe | 05 Apr 2012 4:08 a.m. PST |
H. At Ease I keed I would probably go with B with C following closely behind. |
| Charles Marlow | 05 Apr 2012 5:03 a.m. PST |
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| Wackmole9 | 05 Apr 2012 5:44 a.m. PST |
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| Pictors Studio | 05 Apr 2012 5:46 a.m. PST |
I've always thought the Knights of Lazarus were a pretty cool order. I think they were my favourite, although I also prefer the Norhtern Crusades to any others. |
| Sundance | 05 Apr 2012 5:55 a.m. PST |
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| mad monkey 1 | 05 Apr 2012 6:58 a.m. PST |
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| Rudysnelson | 05 Apr 2012 7:01 a.m. PST |
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| David Cliffel | 05 Apr 2012 7:03 a.m. PST |
A. Knights of the Hospital |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 05 Apr 2012 7:07 a.m. PST |
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Beowulf  | 05 Apr 2012 7:19 a.m. PST |
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| StCrispin | 05 Apr 2012 7:48 a.m. PST |
templars were bigger jerks than hospitallers, so i will go with the nicer guys – though being a jerk in the middle ages was kind of universal. |
| J Womack 94 | 05 Apr 2012 7:50 a.m. PST |
J. Malta But if I were to game it, probably A. |
| waaslandwarrior | 05 Apr 2012 10:25 a.m. PST |
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| Patrick Sexton | 05 Apr 2012 10:51 a.m. PST |
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| Ancestral Hamster | 05 Apr 2012 12:08 p.m. PST |
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| darthfozzywig | 05 Apr 2012 12:51 p.m. PST |
Whichever one didn't end up burned for heresy and witchcraft. |
| Oddball | 05 Apr 2012 1:24 p.m. PST |
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| Deucey | 05 Apr 2012 1:52 p.m. PST |
The Knights of St John of Malta ARE Hospitallers. |
| Cufflink | 05 Apr 2012 2:39 p.m. PST |
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| GreyONE | 05 Apr 2012 8:04 p.m. PST |
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| Agesilaus | 05 Apr 2012 8:19 p.m. PST |
Templars are all the rage.
Hospitallers were cooler in every way.
As the Knights of Rhodes they were required to serve two years in the galleys and become expert sailors. Then they had to be ordained, then they had to become physicians, then they were trained as knights. That's 4 full time professional careers for even the lowliest knight! Add to that falconry, celibacy, fortress engineering, trade and commerce, dragon slaying and an oath of poverty and you can see why they were overachievers. While the Templars were the center of attention, the Hospitallers were just running things, quietly, from Rhodes or Malta. The Ottomans tried to take them out, but couldn't do it. |
| Gennorm | 06 Apr 2012 8:40 a.m. PST |
B. Anyone who gets stitched up by the French king deserves plenty of support. |
| Willtij | 06 Apr 2012 9:17 a.m. PST |
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| David Miniature Armies | 07 Apr 2012 3:38 p.m. PST |
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| Grand Duke Natokina | 08 Apr 2012 3:56 p.m. PST |
Having been in their Church in Vienna, the Teutonic Knights! Although Sergei Eisenstein must have bought up every five gallon bucket in the USSR to make Alexander Nevsky. |
| Grattan54 | 16 Mar 2024 6:28 p.m. PST |
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| Atheling | 18 Mar 2024 11:36 p.m. PST |
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| The Last Conformist | 19 Mar 2024 12:02 a.m. PST |
Why are the decidedly obscure Knights of Dobryn on the list twice? Anyway, C, evidently, as they're the ones I've collected and painted. My first historical wargaming army, actually. |
