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04-20-2004, 01:12
So I don't really know who else to tell this story to as hardly any of my friends play MTW so here goes. As the French, I just had the most incredible battle I've ever seen against an Italian crusade headed for Tolouse.
Needless to say I had gotten into trouble with the Pope by blowing the hell out of some galleys with my Caravels. No problem, I'll send my 40 year old king to his death in Morrocco and his more equipped 19 year old son will take the throne. Well Italy sends a crusade into Tolouse which is a bit of a problem considering my updated units (Royal Knights, Feudal Sargeants and the likes) were off fighting back the Almohads somwhere in North Africa and all I had left in middle Europe was an army that had been there since a long ended war with Germany. It's obviouse my king will not get to his doom in Morrocco in time and even if I could spare the units from the African front the crusaders had the jump and by the time I marched my army through Friesland and South towards Tolouse all they'd find were some smoldering carcasses; So it seemed there would be an incredibly lopsided fight once the Italians enter Tolouse. I pour every troop I can from every surrounding province and never before have I fielded such a mismatch of rabble. Horse archer mercs here, a few dozen spears there, about 40 Hobliars, handfulls of peasantry all told I sent less than 700 soldiers to defend the flat plains of Tolouse from over 2,000 crusaders who were furiouse about my victories in the Northern Meditteranean and Germany through which they have just marched.
Over 600 of my men died, my general fled the field twice, but eventually, after hours of hacking it out in the rain, my totally exhausted celts flanked the crusader general and his Order Foot soldiers as they plowed mercilessly through my last hundred peseants and cut him down. The remaining units (5 archers, 2 horse archers, a very gratefull 30 Peseants, and a very proud 25 celts) built a front and held off the remaining attacks, who could barely cross the field before fleeing due to their low moral.
Anyhow, this one was a battle for the history books, King Phillipe mysteriously dissapeared into Morocco the following year and Phillipe the 3rd lead a newly NON-excommed kingdom to battle in Africa, with the French empire in middle Europe in one piece.
Maybe i should play Muslim factions if Crusaders are always this much fun http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif
Needless to say I had gotten into trouble with the Pope by blowing the hell out of some galleys with my Caravels. No problem, I'll send my 40 year old king to his death in Morrocco and his more equipped 19 year old son will take the throne. Well Italy sends a crusade into Tolouse which is a bit of a problem considering my updated units (Royal Knights, Feudal Sargeants and the likes) were off fighting back the Almohads somwhere in North Africa and all I had left in middle Europe was an army that had been there since a long ended war with Germany. It's obviouse my king will not get to his doom in Morrocco in time and even if I could spare the units from the African front the crusaders had the jump and by the time I marched my army through Friesland and South towards Tolouse all they'd find were some smoldering carcasses; So it seemed there would be an incredibly lopsided fight once the Italians enter Tolouse. I pour every troop I can from every surrounding province and never before have I fielded such a mismatch of rabble. Horse archer mercs here, a few dozen spears there, about 40 Hobliars, handfulls of peasantry all told I sent less than 700 soldiers to defend the flat plains of Tolouse from over 2,000 crusaders who were furiouse about my victories in the Northern Meditteranean and Germany through which they have just marched.
Over 600 of my men died, my general fled the field twice, but eventually, after hours of hacking it out in the rain, my totally exhausted celts flanked the crusader general and his Order Foot soldiers as they plowed mercilessly through my last hundred peseants and cut him down. The remaining units (5 archers, 2 horse archers, a very gratefull 30 Peseants, and a very proud 25 celts) built a front and held off the remaining attacks, who could barely cross the field before fleeing due to their low moral.
Anyhow, this one was a battle for the history books, King Phillipe mysteriously dissapeared into Morocco the following year and Phillipe the 3rd lead a newly NON-excommed kingdom to battle in Africa, with the French empire in middle Europe in one piece.
Maybe i should play Muslim factions if Crusaders are always this much fun http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif