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[Betito]

@Betito-Like this?
https://s132.photobucket.com/albums/...ntMiles/Jaffa/
I did get Saladin, although not with Richard's unit. They all routed, then rallied and I routed them again for the win.

That will do, wish someone had an actual MTW replay, but many thanks Agent Miles!!

[Agent Miles]

Por Favor! Does someone have an actual replay of the battle? Is a parsec 3.26 lightyears? Of course! I don't know if I can PM the replay to you. Do you have an e-mail address? Although, it is not much to see. First it looks like all the Arabs in the world are going to stomp you into dog food, then I counterattack, Saladin dies and they all ride home to mamasita.

[The Darkhorn]

While playing as the Genoese in XL, I found the best way to get the Pope of my back was to sort of make a patron out of him in my mind. I securely had Corsica, Sardinia, Genoa, Tuscany, Venice, Milan, Naples and Tyrolia. Venitians were wiped out. I was in early stages of trade. Pope went to war with Serbia who had taken rebel Sicily after I had cornered and killed the excommunicated Sicilian King and all his heirs in Naples with a Crusade. How convenient for me. Being the good CATHOLIC I was, I launched a crusade for heathen orthodox Sicily, figuring the Pope would love me. His holiness sunk my ships. I'm sure Jesus was real proud of him for that!
So, I attacked Rome and he of course retreated leaving me a fine provence with no fight! Then I attacked him in the Papal states being careful not to kill or capture him in the battle (I admit I had to reload it once when the old bastard just wouldn't run and got himself killed by Tony Soprano of my urban militia. What was Tony to do, let his emminance whack him?). Then I besieged him as long as I could without taking his fort. Guess what, he's weak, will not re-emerge, and has been VERY quiet! I keep 4-5 units in Rome, Tuscany, and Naples so he has no hope of a successful attack!!

[MeglaGnome]

My mos effective papal control game looked like this:

I was the Italians in a vanilla MTW game. I contolled all of the north of the Italian penisula, Naples, Sicily, Corcisa, Sicilay and was working my way through the GA crusade procinves in the holy land. I had also controlled malta for a good few decades, and had been "farming" it for rebellions, thus I had 6 separate 9* generals with Field Defender virute..... I know - I'm bad.

His holiness was being a huge pain in the butt, so I fixed him.

So,

I took Rome and the Papal states, and garrisoned each with 4 arbelists.
I had a mobile naval "rapid response defender squad" consisting of:

4 gold armour and weapon upgrade italian infantry
1 gold/gold 9* II general (most often Italian Infantry, but one was Uban Militia
8 arbelists
2 chiv knights (to dismount and form the corners of a defensive half hex).
1 cannon of some sort

Now, Rome and th Papal states are nice and hilly, so any uprising by his holiness - no matter how well equipped, will fall to a half hex hilltop defence with 8 units of arbelsits and a cannon raining death. Once you run out of ammo simply bring in the spare arbelesits.

Much fun, in a turkey shoot kind of way, and no more issues with excommunication :-)

[Gimli]

My mos effective papal control game looked like this:

I was the Italians in a vanilla MTW game. I contolled all of the north of the Italian penisula, Naples, Sicily, Corcisa, Sicilay and was working my way through the GA crusade procinves in the holy land. I had also controlled malta for a good few decades, and had been "farming" it for rebellions, thus I had 6 separate 9* generals with Field Defender virute..... I know - I'm bad.

His holiness was being a huge pain in the butt, so I fixed him.

So,

I took Rome and the Papal states, and garrisoned each with 4 arbelists.
I had a mobile naval "rapid response defender squad" consisting of:

4 gold armour and weapon upgrade italian infantry
1 gold/gold 9* II general (most often Italian Infantry, but one was Uban Militia
8 arbelists
2 chiv knights (to dismount and form the corners of a defensive half hex).
1 cannon of some sort

Now, Rome and th Papal states are nice and hilly, so any uprising by his holiness - no matter how well equipped, will fall to a half hex hilltop defence with 8 units of arbelsits and a cannon raining death. Once you run out of ammo simply bring in the spare arbelesits.

Much fun, in a turkey shoot kind of way, and no more issues with excommunication :-)

BRILLIANT!