Well fought, sounds like it was a lot of fun. French knights and Order troops can be daunting to face. I remember them thoroughly kicking my butt when I fought some huge battles against them as Eqpyt.

Two nights ago by 880 man Trukish army defended against 4250 Egyptians. After three campaigns of getting my butt kicked by Egypt, I had learned how to fight tham and was easger, but still I thought I was doomed.

My army contained 3 heirs, Ottomans, Saracens and some tough mercenaries (and some not so tough mercenaries)

The ground was excellent for defense and the Egyptians played right into it. Their calvary advanced uphill through a forest towards my position and my cheesy infantry (2 urban militia and one FMAA) wiped out hundreds of tough calvary - Mamluks and Kwhaz. My mercenary unit of Longbows and Pavise Arbs cut down the Mamluk Horse archers. When they routed, my heirs, Alan Mercenary Cal, and horse archers cut them down

Oh the revenge it was glorious My general went from 5 to 6 stars, and picked up two virtues: skilled defender and the one that gives you +1 command whem outnumbered 2 to 1.

Surprisingly, my casualties were not that bad, the Egyptians never did reach my main position with infantry or calvary and most of the casualties were the mercenaries (by design ) a ew times I charged my Saracens at them and flanked with my heirs, but they broke quickly because their general had died in the initial fighting in the forest.

I learned from this how powerful infantry are in the woods - FMAA are decent, UM are not and those three mercenary infantry units killed at least 500 calvary. The one UM recieved 4 valor points - 1st time I've seen that in one battle, but there were only 6 men left in the unit