My Moorish Christain Legion

[wzup]

I've been playing as the moors now for about 130turns and my armies are usually comprised of 70% moors and i haven't had any problems fighting egypt and european countries. Haven't fought the timurids nor the mongols though..

[Ulstan]

He claimed that there was no point me playing the Moors because my army was the same as if I was playing a christian faction. My retort was that the muslim faith at this period in history was very tolerant of other religions and allowed both christains and jews to hold military and political rank as equal citisens and so my army was merely reflecting the religious tolerance of the muslim faith

I imagine he was more concerned with the way the army played,than the supposed religion of the little dudes

As far as the 'historical background' of such a situation goes, there were more than enough European mercs running about, willing to fight for whoever would give them coin. Likewise, the Crusaders were happy to recruit arab mercenaries, particularly as light troops, once their own lack of good light troops was illustrated to be such a large handicap.

[Didz]

As a postscript to the opening post, I am sad to announce that my Christian Legion is no more. They died together with their commander bravely defending Leon against a huge English invasion and now that I am able to recruit Urban Militia, Christian Swordsmen, Peasant Crossbowmen and Grenadien Cavalry they will not be reformed in this campaign.

Its nearly over anyway. Portugal and Spain have been eliminated and I only need one more province to win. (Short Campaign Victory)

[Furious Mental]

The Moors are an interesting military culture because even alot of their Muslim troops were quite alot like their Christian enemies. Apparently after the initial success of the Christian Reconquista the Moors felt that the best way to succeed in future would be to copy the equipment and tactics of Latin Christians, which is reflected somewhat in units like Grenadine Lancers and the various crossbow infantry and cavalry. And they also made use of Christian mercenaries and prisoners. How is this for an obscure unit- in an invasion of Mali in 1570 a Moroccan army equipped 70 captured Spanish soldiers with blunderbusses and put them in the van!