Most succesfull crusade/attack

[antisocialmunky]

I was the English and was trying to beat the Germans to the holyland. They got there three turns ahead. However when the crusade landed on the Byzantine's turf, they attacked it... and retreated. Of course, they left Constantinople undefended as they have the knack for doing so I landed in it and conquered it free of charge. I sold off all the dev in Constantinople for 10k. That 10k lasted only 5 turns though.

[PittBull260]

I love crusades
I remember I had when when I was playin as the french. I made one in Brittany, and put about 1200 men in it, lots of Chiv. Men at arms, about 4 units of archers, and some heavy armoroured Feudal Knights (golden armor i think), with a 5 star general. I sent the crusade to Palestine (controlled by the Egyptians).

It took like 15 years for the crusade to finally reach Palestine with 1000-1400 men. I saw there was a lot of troops in Palestine controlled by their 4 star king. I attacked. oh the egyptyians had over 3000 men.


I had my usual position, Men at arms in front, archers behind, general behind archers, and cavalry to the side. I sent the infantry along with the general to slowly march forward to the enemy. I sent my feudal knights to the right to flank the egyptians (huge mistake, they were heavily armoured and i'm in a desert).

My infantry started fighting, doing an ok job, my slow knights finaly reached the rear of the enemy's army. they attacked, did a good job and the egyptians started fleeing, i thought all i had to do now is fight off some of the reinforsements, which would be easy.....man was i wrong.

the reinforcements come, about 7 units of Beduin Camel warriors, i thought "psh, easy target for my knights" so i sent my knights in....i didnt even focus on them anymore, i thought they'd make the camels run away emideatly, so I went to the infantry and archers.

the chiv men at arms are kicking ass, along with the archers. but i looked down at my units buttons, and i saw that i had like 20 knights left....the camels demolished them....they then attacked my archers making them flee...i had to pull back all my men at arms to kill the camels, which they did.

So i lost my archers and knights and my reinforcements came, yaay, the rest was pretty much just killing a lot of nubian spearmen, and milita seargants..



I liked that crusade, because it made me realize how good camels are in the desert lol, and it was a cool battle =)

[dgfred]

In my current HRE GA campaign I've had 3 Crusades- Palestine, Tripoli and
Antioch- all conquest . It is now 1205 and I'm up in pts 121 to:
Byz-89, Egy-24, Ita-44, Spa-57, Tur-58 but am really at a loss on what to
try to do next . I can't decide whether to give them up now,
hold as long as possible, or what .

[Advo-san]

In my current HRE GA campaign I've had 3 Crusades- Palestine, Tripoli and
Antioch- all conquest . It is now 1205 and I'm up in pts 121 to:
Byz-89, Egy-24, Ita-44, Spa-57, Tur-58 but am really at a loss on what to
try to do next . I can't decide whether to give them up now,
hold as long as possible, or what .

Do not leave tripoly or antioch. They are the richest provinces of the game, we are talking serious cash my friend...

[Mr White]

Do not leave tripoly or antioch. They are the richest provinces of the game, we are talking serious cash my friend...

Richer than Flanders?
I'm curently holding Flanders ( wich gives me 2950 florins a turn) but I have both Tripoly and Antioch in my grasp. I was waiting to take them as they are Turkish right now and I didn't want to lose some trade income as my treasury ( or something like that) isn't exactly bulging with cash. But if those provinces have such high revenues I will take my chances.

[cutepuppy]

Richer than Flanders?

much richers than flanders. The max income i ever got from Flanders was about 7500 fl, while I got 11k from antioch and 15k from tripoli.

[dgfred]

much richers than flanders. The max income i ever got from Flanders was about 7500 fl, while I got 11k from antioch and 15k from tripoli.

Dang , that is some serious cash-flow.