The Grand Principality of Kiev

Quality: Elite

Type: Early Professional

Soldiers: 31

Melee: 8

Missile: 12

Charge: 6

Weapon Type: Missile

Defense: 16

Armour: 7

Defense Skill: 4

Shield: 5

Hit Points:1

Recruitment Cost: 380

Upkeep: 225

Heavily armed cavalry, famous in deed and song "For ye have iron cuirasses beneath your Latin helmets. Through them the earth trembled and many countries, Hinowice, Lithuania, the Yatvyagi, the men of Dremble; and the Polovtsy threw down their maces and bowed their heads beneath those steel swords." Armoured in the famous russian chainmail of great quality, triangular shields, swords and throwing spears.

  • Stables
  • Cavalry Stables
  • Baron's Stables
  • Earl's Stables
  • Polotsk Boyar Druzhina are available in Castles with an Earl's Stables after the Heavy Mail Armor Event in the early 13th century (1200 to 1215).