The Lion and the Castle - a MTW2 Spanish AAR

This AAR is on VH/VH with the 1.1 patch and the Medifix mini-mod.

My personal “glory goals” are to meet the official victory conditions, expel the Moors from Spain, contol the Netherlands, Milan, and Naples, and establish an empire in the New World

The play style will be to avoid rushing the AI: I will not start wars (except crusading ones). I will role-play the generals, but not deliberately do dumb things; any defeats will reflect my stupidity rather than theirs.

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.

All screenshots are in spoiler tags, so that people can comfortably read the thread while the screenshots are still loading.

*Introduction abridged from econ21's A Lion in the Holy Land - an English campaign AAR.*