Quote Originally Posted by Martok
Woah. What the heck did you have for troops? Just a bunch of peasants?
My army, a jihad, consisted of Ghulam Bodyguards, Nubian Spearmen, Saracens, Ghazis, Faris, Mamluk Horse Archers, Arab Infantry and Bedouin Camels, all shamefully defeated by these... these... BARBARIANS!

The Sultan himself would have probably ordered their execution on the spot had they no been already dead and had he not been too busy routing off the field...

No matter what I threw at them they could handle it, with their 6 star general against my 2 star sultan...

I had them pinned and hit them with a devastating flank attack, no good. Next I moved in the Ghazi on their flanks, charge! No good. In desperation the Mamluk Horse Archers and Faris were next, then they were entirely surrounded by all of my units. No good. Next my units routed, including the sultan.

Absolutely nothing would quell them. In the end they won of course. They started off at valour 6 with 62 men and ended up at valour 7 with 42 men.

The next year I had to back up the Jihad with another large force from Cyrenacia with a 7 star General, and some veteran Ghazis in Trebizond that had won a superb victory there the year before.