A Lion in the Holy Land – a M2TW English AAR

This AAR is on VH/VH with the leaked unofficial 1.2 patch.

My personal “glory goals” are to meet the official victory conditions, establish a permanent crusader kingdom in the Holy Land and get to America.

The play style will be to avoid rushing the AI: I will not start wars (except crusading ones). I will establish an alliance with Scotland to keep them in play for longer. I will role-play the generals, but not deliberately do dumb things; any defeats will reflect my stupidity rather than theirs. To conserve the lives of my people and soldiers, I will generally try to occupy settlements and often starve them out rather than storm them; I will also often end battles as soon as the chance is offered.

I will try to use balanced armies and avoid exploiting the AI. I will follow a one ship to four passengers houserule.

This AAR is going to be focussed on gameplay rather than story, unless I feel inspired.

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