He rose from vengeance to empire, turning tribal blood feuds into the blueprint for a dynasty.
Rank - 161
A lone silver-armored rider carved his legend through chaos—Zhao Yun, the calm storm of a collapsing empire.
Rank - 199
A professional cavalry brotherhood forged from enslaved youths, the Fatimid and Ayyubid Mamluk horsemen mastered discipline, mobility, and shock warfare to become the decisive military force of medieval Egypt and Syria.
Group Rank - 180
The Teutonic Knights were a medieval military order that fused monastic discipline with state-building warfare, conquering and ruling large parts of the Baltic through crusade, colonization, and fortified power.
Group Rank - 182
The New Kingdom chariot corps turned speed into a weapon, using disciplined coordination and relentless mobility to carry Egyptian power far beyond the Nile.
Group Rank - 183
A disciplined wall of armored horsemen advances with relentless precision, embodying the Byzantine Empire’s doctrine of patience, weight, and inevitable force on the battlefield.
Group Rank - 184
A brotherhood forged in revolt, the Dutch States Army turned geometry, discipline, and relentless volleys into the weapon that broke the old world’s battlefield logic.e.
Group Rank - 185
The Tang Imperial Guards lived and died as the empire’s steel conscience—glorious in its youth, decadent in its age, and always one heartbeat away from violence.
Group Rank - 189
The Burgundian Ordonnance Companies marched like a machine built from pride and gunpowder, only to shatter spectacularly when the future came at them with Swiss pikes and winter steel.
Group Rank - 191
They advanced like a single starving organism made of steel, superstition, and the certainty that the world existed only to be taken.
Group Rank - 193
A predator aristocracy on horseback, the Hunnic noble cavalry tore across late antiquity with speed, terror, and precision, unraveling empires before they could even form a shield wall.
Group Rank - 195
The Solomonic Knights fought for seven centuries with blades, faith, and terrifying resolve, carving Ethiopia’s destiny into the highlands one battlefield at a time.
Group Rank - 199
Smedley D. Butler was a two-time Medal of Honor–winning U.S. Marine who spent decades fighting America’s overseas wars during the age of imperial expansion. After retiring, he became one of the nation’s fiercest critics of war profiteering, condemning the very system that had made him famous.
Rank - 148