For ease of access, this topic is for a list of the factions and their topics:
Playable
Muslim
1) The Ayyubid Sultanate2) The Abbasid Caliphate
- Location: Egypt and South Palestine
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
3) The Great Seljuks
- Location: South and Middle Iraq (Basra and Baghdad)
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
4) The Turkish Sultanate
- Location: "Persian Empire" - Iran + Azerbaijan
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
5) Khwarezmshah
- Location: Central Anatolia
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Pre-Ottoman: Ghulams and abundant horse archers
- Post-Ottoman: Medium-
- Weaknesses: Must wait for Ottoman Reforms to come into their own [until then they are merely a splinter of the Seljuks]
6) The Sultanate of Ghazni
- Location: Transoxania (Central Asia, Modern day Uzbekistan)
- Armies:
- Strengths: Heavy Daylami Infantry, Superheavy cavalry, Light Horse Archers.
- Weaknesses:
7) The Ghorid Sultanate
- Location: Northern Afghanistan
- Armies:
- Strengths: Heavy Spearmen, Abundant Ghulam cavalry, Medium Horse Archers, Hybrid foot archers.
- Weaknesses: "Jack of all Trades" Horsemen and archers.
8) The Zengid Sultanate
- Location: Northern Afghanistan/Khyber Pass
- Armies:
- Strengths: Fanatical Ghazi Jihadists,
- Weaknesses:
Christian
- Location: Syria/Mosul
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
9) The Byzantine Empire10) The Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Location: Western Anatolia, North/South Anatolian Coast, Greece
- Armies:
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11) The Kingdom of Armenia
- Location: Levant Coastline
- Armies:
- Strengths: Strong Foot Spearmen, the absolute best cavalry charge
- Weaknesses:
12) The Kingdom of Georgia
- Location: South-East Anatolia
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
Hindu
- Location: Northern Caucasus Mountains
- Armies:
- Strengths: Strength in all categories.
- Weaknesses: Limited Recruitment Range.
13) The Rajput StatesPagan
- Location: South-East (On map) India
- Armies:
- Strengths: Elephants, high moral and charge Rajput Knights, large amounts of infantry
- Weaknesses: Except with Elephants, they are outdone by their neighbors in all kinds of units. They lack abundant heavy infantry and horse archers especially.
14) The Kypchaks
Emergent
- Location: Russian Steppe
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses: Pitiful and barely evident infantry.
15) The Mongol Empire16) The Timurids
- Location: Emergent in Central Asia
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
17) The Sultanate of Delhi
- Location: Emergent in Central Asia (Modern day Turkmenistan, I think)
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
Rebels, and *Possible* additional Factions
- Location: Emergent in India (Northern India)
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
18) Discussion of Minor Factions
19) Principality of Antioch20) The Kingdom of Sindh
- Location: Western Syria (Antioch)
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
21) The Emirate of Oman
- Location: Southern Pakistan
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses: "Jack of All trades, Master of none" roster.
- Location: Oman, coastal control of Baluchistan (South of Afghanistan, west of Sindh), possibly control of Horn of Africa's province.
- Armies:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses: Heavy reliance on AOR and mercenaries. No Native Horse Archers. Lacking cavalry roster.
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