Oh my god... (scarey Mongols pic)

[Werner]

Your joking me right?

[Lord Condormanius]

Wow. That's probably the number 1 reason I don't try to hold the holy lands. Jihad, baby!

[ScrapTower]

Wow. That's probably the number 1 reason I don't try to hold the holy lands. Jihad, baby!

Yeah, I see no reason to dump money into holding on to the holy lands when you can just sack them repeatidly for 30k a pop.

[Lord Condormanius]

Exactly.

[Varyar]

Wow. That's probably the number 1 reason I don't try to hold the holy lands. Jihad, baby!

And here I just abandoned my last patch of german land to permanently settle the HRE in the Holy Lands... better start building those defenses.

[Dooz]

Probably not.

[TB666]

Poor Germans, will never know what hit them.

[Brighdaasa]

prepare for even more and better mongol commanders. i'm sorry to inform you that unless you have a hell of a lot more reinforcements coming you're pretty much shafted.

[Somebody Else]

Mongols? Pfft... The walls of Acre have already seen off 5 full stacks, each one led by an umpteen star general. Within the walls? A motley band of peasant crossbowmen, sergeant spearmen and mounted/unmounted feudal knights. And a trebuchet. No general in sight (my faction leader is bumming around in the countryside with his reiters, assaulting Damascus for fun and profit...)

On a serious note, if the horde goes south - ie. to the holy land, it bottlenecks if it tries to advance on Acre from Antioch, meaning it can only attack with one stack at a time...

[Mega Dux Bob]

Your joking me right?

A common real life comment when facing the Mongels.

[Ice]

That is why you get a lot of missile units that penetrate armor, fortify your city with huge walls and cannon towers, and pray to the holy God that you surive.

[HaroldVonBraver]

Your joking me right?

Good luck bud.

[knoddy]

its not as bad as it first seems, the armies tend to be made up of a lot of heavy cav and HA, with very little infantry, and wot little inf they have is generally not comparable to ur dismounted knights. best tactic is to hole up in ur towns and just defend siege after siege. it can be done. another tactic is to train up an 10 star assasin and kill off every general before they get any land :P did that in my byzantine camp, he had 80-90% chance of sucess on every one except faction leaders and heirs. :D :D

Cheers Knoddy

[pevergreen]

Meh, that doesnt look to bad.

[Werner]

Thankfully I was the Scots at the time. The only reason I could see what was happening at Jerusalem was because the Turks started a Jihad against the HRE holding it. As it played out the Mongols ending up wiping out everyone from the region including the invading Jihad armies and those HRE's holding Jerusalem. Serve's those Jihader's right, prayers for my HRE brothers though...

[dacdac]

I think I counted 62 or so armies there pevergreen. That is just freaking ridiculous

[Carl]

I got 63, but whatthe hell, now way your gonna beat that lot.

[dacdac]

Carl:

I got 63, but whatthe hell, now way your gonna beat that lot.

ohh yeah, i see where i forgot one. Doesn't matter though, still too much. I suggest taking out the SE portion first. Bigger armies, but it has some forest to help lower the calvaries maneuverability.

[Trithemius]

Is that what the Mongols do once they settle down? I am glad I wiped them out (with a combination of assassins, open battles, and sipahi kill-squads who target retreating family-members).

[pevergreen]

I think I counted 62 or so armies there pevergreen. That is just freaking ridiculous

Thats not all of them....
another 7 full stacks up north, 11 full stacks west and some more south.