Gringoleader
10-12-2002, 09:44
Howdy ya'll. I've been playing the English for a while and this is my first go at Glorius Achievement mode. To complete this and blag the major points it wanted me to set off on a crusade to Antioch.
I took 2000 men give or take, made it as far as the first Turkish province, took it, held it for a couple of years, but gradually got battered into submission and the crusade was scrapped.
I made sackfulls of loot from the Byzantines, so I wasn't too fussed at the failure, but still I thought I'd have a pop once more. 3800 men set out across Europe, this time pausing to hammer the Byzantinians that stood in the way. This crusade made it to Constantinople before being stopped by a smaller force of Turks that frankly pissed on my army due to crappy moral. I was just about able to hang in to Constantinople long enough to capture the castle and sell everything before I was forced to torch the chapter house, abandon the crusade and bundle my army into Greece to hole up and try to hang on.
Where did it all go wrong? Well to be honest I'm not sure. Although I am fairly sure I stuck some pretty good generals into the crusade when it set off the guy in charge by the time things kicked off was a boy-hungry pile of lard who couldn't have lead a turd downstream if you paid him. Coupled with that my lean, mean soldiers started deserting like anything once they were in hostile turf, and lost their bottle in battle to boot.
So how does one go about a successful Crusade? What are the do's and don'ts?
I took 2000 men give or take, made it as far as the first Turkish province, took it, held it for a couple of years, but gradually got battered into submission and the crusade was scrapped.
I made sackfulls of loot from the Byzantines, so I wasn't too fussed at the failure, but still I thought I'd have a pop once more. 3800 men set out across Europe, this time pausing to hammer the Byzantinians that stood in the way. This crusade made it to Constantinople before being stopped by a smaller force of Turks that frankly pissed on my army due to crappy moral. I was just about able to hang in to Constantinople long enough to capture the castle and sell everything before I was forced to torch the chapter house, abandon the crusade and bundle my army into Greece to hole up and try to hang on.
Where did it all go wrong? Well to be honest I'm not sure. Although I am fairly sure I stuck some pretty good generals into the crusade when it set off the guy in charge by the time things kicked off was a boy-hungry pile of lard who couldn't have lead a turd downstream if you paid him. Coupled with that my lean, mean soldiers started deserting like anything once they were in hostile turf, and lost their bottle in battle to boot.
So how does one go about a successful Crusade? What are the do's and don'ts?