How good are the King's Royal Guard in your setting?

How good are the King's Royal Guard in your setting?

How good are the BBEG's personal Guard/lietenants?

Who'd you bet on in a fight?

Depends on the King.

The Lumenaires of King Alderic VII of Chalon are level 15 initiators, but the lieutenants of the BBEG Wild Hunt are level 18 with Mythic and some seriously broken templates given their status as genetically engineered Moon Elves.

Royal Guard are level 10 Phalanx Fighters with Polearms, Lunge and a focus on tower shield based teamwork feats. They are surprisingly tough to crack while fighting in formation.

BBEG has no guards. She just manipulates people for her own ends.

The Musketeers are formidable, with excellent weaponry and a few class levels, but they can't really stack up to an equal number of adventurers past level 3 or 4.

King's guard are all magical paladins and battle mages, such and such.

The BBEG has no bodyguards, he caves in the faces of assassins and enemies alike. His lieutentants are decent fighters but he only has like 4 of them, and two aren't even proper combatants, as much as infiltrators and spies.

Steampunk setting, though most people only have low fantasy tech level.

The main antagonist's personal troops are essentially Imperial Stormtroopers who can actually shoot straight with a lot of formidable gear wrapped in solid armor, each effective at both close quarters and range.

Them showing up is supposed to make the party start seriously reconsidering if what they're doing right now is a good idea.

The Emperor of Esgoth has well trained and equipped soldiers as his bodyguards, but not much above any other experienced fighter.

The Paladins that guard the Pontifex of Ezrea tend to be chosen by how impressive they look and have very shiny armor, but they're more for show than anything else.

The High Bishop of Nocta is lucky if he can gather a hundred men in chainmail.

The Prince of Meridia hires only the best sellswords for the protection of his family. He pays them well and they're pretty good at what they do.

The Exemplar of Ur, to hold his position, must be able to defeat any contender in honorable duel, and his Brothers of War live in his palace, always ready to fighr alonside him. They're also all 7-to-8 feet tall barbarians who live in the harshest land in the world and fight monsters on a daily basis.

But they're all just humans, and with no magic to help them.

And the BBEG's "lieutenants" are colossal eldritch fiends.

They're very powerful Sith (in both cases). Definitely the most powerful Sith that aren't actively leading the military or other governmental affairs.

Royal Guard are stronger. If they weren't, the BBEG wouldn't need his plots.

The king's palace is at the center of an elaborate maze, you can't even get in or out without the help of the royal guards, who are all minotaurs.

The Holy King has several powerful people around him at any given time--be it his high priest (lvl 15 Cleric(cloister)), or one of his generals (paladins, fighters, and warlords, all lvl 11-14). But his personal guard is a paladin20/Holy Vindicator10. This guy is a monster in a fight, as you can imagine.

The governments soldiers are well-trained, powerful and many, but the equipment is underfunded and under-produced, and there is a huge gap between the common foot-soldier and the 'higher' ranks.
The BBEG, and by extension, him, is only powerful and useful with enemies to face (sentient grey-goo thing with the ability to reproduce asexually).
Each member works together to make decisions for the best of all of them. Yeah, this stolen/inspired by the Geth from Mass Effect
Arguably, the BBEG is more correct than the PC's and their allies, but I'm not gonna be one of 'those' GM's and shove that in their faces
In a fight with no planning, the BBEG
In a fight with the soldiers planning, probably them.
In a fight with BBEG planning, the BBEG win
In a fight where both plan, the BBEG's

by extension, his guard*

The players are the royal guard.

The king and the BBEG are one and the same. In that races culture, to become king you must kill the current king. Therefore, his four elite lieutenants are those who have complete respect for his power, and each of them is relegated to deal with dozens of duels with challengers each day - the king simply doesn't have time to kill a hundred some every day to keep his crown.

King's guard are heavily armored knights that rely on their advanced techniques in swordplay, along with their unique lightning imbued swords. They also utilize their shields as weapons and are trained to fight out numbered. Due to the skill required, the guard are relatively few in number.

BBEG's guards are abnormally large creatures that are assumed to have once been human. They resemble a humanoid with pallid skin and elongated limbs, they cannot speak and have been tortured into loyalty.

In a fight I would bet on the king's guard, as the abominations have brittle bones and rely on ambushing

This guy gets it.
But what's stopping your Royal Guard from going out and tracking down the BBEG to give him an impromtu ass-kicking?

>That King's Guard
Fucking Lothric Knights.

Gotta guard the royals

>How good are the King's Royal Guard in your setting?
In their heyday they turned the largest assembled army of the ancient world. Now they are gone, disbanded, unreplaced and unmourned one by one since his death.
>How good are the BBEG's personal Guard/lieutenants?
Very many elite mooks, but his strength is in his agents wandering abroad, his legions, and his war machines.
>Who'd you bet on in a fight?
No contest, but the two existed in largely different points in time and never had the chance to meet in the slim frame where they were both active.

>The king, as it turned out, was recorded as having commissioned a "great" palace, and the chief architect, who had previously worked with one King Minos, was deaf as a nail.

The Royal Guards of the Kaiser are the remaining members of a warrior lineage conquered honourably by the then-knightly Imperial line many centuries ago. While they continue to train and fight with all the fervour and passion of their ancestors, many of them debate their usefulness in a world of political plots, economic conquest, and bureaucratic control. Firearms call their tactical prowess into question, but within 10 feet they quickly prove that they remain the world's greatest swordsmen.

King's Guard are generally quite elite, but the King always has a guardian who is considered (may not necessarily be true, but is usually in the top percentile) the best in the land, always willing, but also a position that doesn't just come with great prestige, responsibility and such, but a willing submission to a permanent geas that binds them to their duty (designed so that they can't be compelled against him, since it's a house rule that if you're under one mental effect of that type you can't be put under another one).

BBEG's personal guard tend to be bound outsiders and fey, since she's a early-mythic witch.

>Bandit King
>Bandit King Guard
>15 strong
>Slaughtered to the last
>Even after they all begged for mercy after one-hitting the first one