Mr White
08-21-2005, 09:54
Two days ago an amaizing crusade (for me that is). I was playing as the English and crusading to Egypt. The year was 1140 or something like that. My navy streched as far as Tunesia. My crusade had three units of order foot soldiers, 1 unit of fanatics, a prince, some mounted sergants, 3 units of FMAA, some feudal sergants with a 7 star general amongst them, 3 or 4 units of archers and a lot of clansmen.
As I landed with my crusade in Tunesia the elmos ran to the next province as they where somewhat depleted by the spanish. The next year I went after them and won the battle. The number of men on each side was about equal but I had probably better quality and a better ballance as the were archer heavy. I defeated them quite easily but the Sultan escaped with a small group to his keep.
As Egypt was my main objective I pushed on through and used two units of peasants that I send after the crusade to guard the elmos keep.
I thought Egypt was up for grabs as there was only 1 unit of ghulams and 1 unit of ghazis ( I think) present with a rebel province in Sinai. They fled to the castle only to sally out when reïnfocements came the next year with a shipthat wasn't there the year before.
I was up against an force with double my numbers ( 4300 or so against my 2200) existing of 5 or so princes, some sarecens, some nubean spears, a bunch of desert archers, camel warriors and some militia and peasants. As this was my first battle that I started against the odds ( out of intrest I autocalced and I lost) I was realy looking forward to it.
My lines of order foot held but all of my cav died or routed in the confusion that followed. All exept my prince. I used the well known pressure pot strategy to fend off the remaining Egyptian force allthough this ment that my reïnforcements where quite tired when they arrived. A Unit of clansmen ( YES you read it) killed the Egyptian sultan and this helped a lot to fend of the waves of camels and ghulams that still rolled on to the field. After time only urban militia, peasants and archer took to the field and I knew I had won. I had killled and captured over 1800 men and lost only 450. I now have tremendous respect for clansmen and FMAA ( one unit was charged head on by camels and they just lost 2 or 3 men and killed 10 to 20 of the camels).
This crusade was so successful because I not only killed the Egyptian sultan but all his princes with him so the whole Egyptian empire turned rebel and are up for grabs. The Elmos will die the next turn unless they sally out but I can counter that with the men from my succesfull crusade. And I deny the spanish more land in the south as I'm currently allied to them.
So does anybody else have a crussade or attack that went amaizingly well?
As I landed with my crusade in Tunesia the elmos ran to the next province as they where somewhat depleted by the spanish. The next year I went after them and won the battle. The number of men on each side was about equal but I had probably better quality and a better ballance as the were archer heavy. I defeated them quite easily but the Sultan escaped with a small group to his keep.
As Egypt was my main objective I pushed on through and used two units of peasants that I send after the crusade to guard the elmos keep.
I thought Egypt was up for grabs as there was only 1 unit of ghulams and 1 unit of ghazis ( I think) present with a rebel province in Sinai. They fled to the castle only to sally out when reïnfocements came the next year with a shipthat wasn't there the year before.
I was up against an force with double my numbers ( 4300 or so against my 2200) existing of 5 or so princes, some sarecens, some nubean spears, a bunch of desert archers, camel warriors and some militia and peasants. As this was my first battle that I started against the odds ( out of intrest I autocalced and I lost) I was realy looking forward to it.
My lines of order foot held but all of my cav died or routed in the confusion that followed. All exept my prince. I used the well known pressure pot strategy to fend off the remaining Egyptian force allthough this ment that my reïnforcements where quite tired when they arrived. A Unit of clansmen ( YES you read it) killed the Egyptian sultan and this helped a lot to fend of the waves of camels and ghulams that still rolled on to the field. After time only urban militia, peasants and archer took to the field and I knew I had won. I had killled and captured over 1800 men and lost only 450. I now have tremendous respect for clansmen and FMAA ( one unit was charged head on by camels and they just lost 2 or 3 men and killed 10 to 20 of the camels).
This crusade was so successful because I not only killed the Egyptian sultan but all his princes with him so the whole Egyptian empire turned rebel and are up for grabs. The Elmos will die the next turn unless they sally out but I can counter that with the men from my succesfull crusade. And I deny the spanish more land in the south as I'm currently allied to them.
So does anybody else have a crussade or attack that went amaizingly well?