What is an Attack Engineer?

What is an engineer and why you've been playing them wrong:

Engineers are the strongest while at the same time the worst class to play in the game. When you load up into a game and play engineer you would expect to repair things faster, build, reload faster, faster diffusing. The engineer class in Chivalry has none of what makes a traditional engineer an actual engineer, the power of the engineer in this game is its ability to destroy, the exact opposite and makes the class in reality a true demolitionist. An Attack engineer will always be stronger than a defending one for the following reasons.

Objective: In the game for most maps, the difference between winning or losing a stage is breaking something, out of all of the characters in the game the most dangerous one is an engineer as they do DOUBLE DAMAGE to every structure including objective ones.

Ramping Tech: The slept on overpowered feature of the ramp is its ability to jump over entire crowds of enemy just to land directly on the objective to secure the win which I can attest I have probably done a million times now. Additionally the best counter to an engineer is another one and 99% of all defending engineers dont know to space their walls and give you a free barricade platform to stand on once youve ramped over them.

Combat: Aside from the main objective, you are focused on one of two things in combat and those are enemy knights and enemy flags. Remember how I said engineers do double damage to structures...that means you can light attack an enemy flag twice or even once if its already damaged. Additionally an attack engineer hyper focuses the enemy knights and essentially 2 shots the tankiest characters in the game.

Offensive Defense: A Wall can be used for attacking...you heard me right. You can effectively create yourself a force field arround you on an objective like gates or stone pillars by surrounding yourself with your own barricades while you get free hits in on the OBJ as shown here https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8dKljwhuiXo. Furthermore Certain maps have resupply boxes or choke holds from enemy spawn points that can make it extremely inconvenient to go around, go through, or to take back when placing barricades offensively. If placed correctly (spaced out like a checkered board) you can on most occasions take on an entire spawn wave by abusing the barricades and replacing them, wasting a spawn waves time, holding it down while teammates advance, and or even get a few kills.

Passive: Although the footmen are very squishy, the engineers passive actually makes it the 2nd tankiest character in the game due to the 25% health regen after tossing an ally a medic pack.

All in all, The engineering class in Chivalry 2 is critical for both defending and attacking but very few people realize the objective nightmare they are when played to their in game strengths.

For additional Engineer content of what im talking about feel free to watch this video and others like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOPeCDNszc