My best moment in the game was in my last long campaign playing the English. I had conquered most of modern day France, was allied to Spain and was mostly occupied with setting up camp in the holy lands. The only true annoyance was Milan, whose empire spanned up to the southeast of France, southern Germany and Switzerland. They were constantly sending fulls stacks on my French cities, besieging up to 4 cities in one single turn. Obviously this made it somewhat hard to develop my economy in those areas, and the best of my army was already engaged in the far east. Each time I tried to build up an army to go slaughter those ugly Milanese swines in their homelands, it was ambushed by danes or redirected back to my lands in order to save some attacked city.

After years of this terror, I accidently noticed I had a 34 year old snobby princess who'd been sitting in Toulouse for 18 years (would be nice if the game told you when a princess has her "coming of age"). She had no hearts (actually if the game permitted she would have been in the minus) but proved to be of great strategic importance!

I sent her out to Milan, where General Antonio The Honourable was governing. I though, "bah, why not.." although her chances in success were about 11%. And what do you know, I had a five star general in the middle of my most hated enemy's land. I immediatly recruited the 2 pavise crossbowmen and 1 band of spearmen available there. Milan sent a half stack full of spearmen and various cavalry to me. Heroic victory... and so on... I conquered Milan, Venice and a couple other of tows in the area. By that time the Milanese were sending their troops back home to try and stop the carnage, but it was already too late. A few turns later and Milan was no more.

Now THAT is what I call memorable! ;)

Another enjoyable part was, later in that same game, when the Timurids invaded the Holy Lands and I decimated most of their 8-9 star generals with a couple assassins.