My most annoying defeat was in my Sicily campaign. I had Algeirs with a decent garrison so i decided to push for Marakesh leaving a skeleton force to guard the citadel. When my strike had cleared two turns march the Moors launched a counter attack on Algeirs using their superior navy. The landed their sultan and his son and a depleted force of spearmen plus a depleted catapult crew. I had a handful of mounted sergants and mailed knights and a few 2 units of 50 spearmen and 3 units of peasant archers. I managed to kill the catapult and the sultans son leaving the Sultan alone and unable to touch me. However thinking that i might be able to wipe them off the face of the earth i sent the archers out to pick him off however i failed to flee inside my walls quick enough and in the resulting carnage he managed to rout and kill all my puny forced chasing the fleeing blagards into the castle and cutting the down to a man, the shame :(

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