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Completed Let us RECLAIM THE HOLY LAND
- Thread starter Darth Roxor
- Start date
Faith
Antioch
Antioch
SURAH 5 - SALADIN'S MARCH TO THE SEA
We accept the gracious donation of elder scrolls. Soon we'll be able to master dragon shouts.
After which we go check what all the fuss is about in Antioch.
Lovely desert morning.
Here are the fortified enemies. They aren't as muslim as the mission preview would believe you to be.
The regiments are no problem, just white companies and crusader archers, but the catapult and ballista might be a problem.
The other enemy force has shittons of heavy infantry - 2x crusaders and 2x templars, which is going to be a HUGE pain. Also two bowmen units on top.
No sign of the third force that was supposed to come from the northeast. Suspicious.
We split the army to send all cavalry towards the siege weapons, and all the rest to ambush the templars & co.
An artistic picture of the charge of the seljuk light brigade, flung about by catapult fire
Not for too long however.
Trouble's getting closer with every second, so better hurry it up.
Naturally, the fucking ballista, right before it was cut down, had decided to switch targets and clobbered one of Saladin's dudes into the sand...
Still, this post is no longer a concern.
While the templars got within our archers' range. We really, really have to soften them on the approach.
Fortunately, the crusaders decide to chase after our cavalry, which gives us a lot of bonus time to shoot their faces.
And also lets us ride around them and murder their bowmen.
Meanwhile the third crusader detachment has finally arrived, and it looks like BIG TRUBBLE. Must be some Teuton expedition cuz it has langschilde and 2x styrian infantry. Also 2x spearmen and 2x crus archers.
not good at all
Mass arrow fire works pretty well to break the morale of even the toughest units.
Unfortunately that's all we can accomplish before things get personal.
I reposition the archers in preparation for the nazis, and note their stamina fell to a fat zero
Meanwhile the fleeing templars regroup.
Which is why we might want to bumrush them.
YALLA YALLA
The corpses on our side start piling up as the useless fucking seljuk swordsmen keep getting kicked around by generic crusaders
However, Allah be praised, the AI is too dumb to move the Germans.
So we can safely clean up here and rest.
Resting is super important now because almost ALL our units are out of stamina. Had the Germans attacked now, we'd be fucked.
Once everyone's had some pepsi, we can reposition to a nearby hill.
Keep firing, KEEP FIRING!
In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have bothered at all with shooting the crus archers and should have instead focused fully on the styrians. Oh well...
Here come the javelins
Also, the AI is actually cleverer than expected. I first tried to bait the javelins by running in with seljuk warriors, but it refused to comply.
The corpses pile ever higher, but I dare not engage with Saladin and the Circassians due to all the spearmen.
Meanwhile the seljuk horsemen run behind enemy lines to get rid of the archers
Mopping up
Huge losses, but the map wasn't actually the easiest. Lots of upper tier units against ourzerglings seljuks leads to much bloodshed.
Fortunately, these being trash unit losses, the refills shouldn't be that costly.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Also, meet the Abbasid Lancers. They are an improvement over seljuk spearmen all around, but unfortunately not by a whole damn lot. I especially like how they have these shields and scale armours, but their ranged defence is still 0...
AND THEY EVEN HAVE THE SHIELD WALL ABILITY THAT RAISES RANGED DEF BY 50%
WHAT?
Some level ups
I grab Ambush for the assassinos. Pretty sure it makes for a better net damage increase than masterwork weaponry.
Saladin gets access to two new skills. Masterful tictacs.
Offensive strategy.
Needless to say, we will pump every possible point into offensive strategy from now on.
Now, time for some geld management
I first sell this piece of shit because what's its fucking point
I also get this upgrade. In the meantime I kicked the seljuk warriors and spearmen into the reserves too.
Voilla. Suddenly reinforcement costs go down from 18k to 10k.
Nevertheless, I reinforce neither Saladin nor Asad, because other matters need our dolla bills.
We are in desperate need of better archers.
These archers to be specific.
Allah akbar, who gives a shit about them fighting better in melee?!
Still, they also happen to have a lot better ranged damage than the Seljuks, and that's what counts.
And we have just enough cash to upgrade all of our archers into them.
They get a skill reroll, which gives me a short pause.
We're now sort of running out of areas with forests, I think, and archers typically have p. big losses, so I pick experienced retains over ambush.
Also, new event:
Fucking heretics.
You know, my biggest regret of the crusader campaign is that it didn't allow me to conquer Byzantium.
Anyways, this is a pretty silly event, "what kind of support do you need from them?" aka "how else can we word an event for free stuff?" and the rewards are obvious
- 6 Upgrade points
- Relic and armour
- 9k petrodollars
Antioch gives way to a new map.
Inb4 runtime errors!
Acre is largely a bizarro edition of the Crusader version of the map. We gotta split our army into two forces, then assign one to defend the city with siege weapons against the first wave of crusaders. After this is done, another wave of infidels will arrive, but we'll also get the second part of our army as reinforcements.
Other possible maps include: Arabia (oasis), Lesser Armenia (dudes on a hilltop with guard towers), Seljuk Sultanate (Turk rebels), Asia Minor (Hamburger Hill), Damascus (u wot m8)
Like always, plz be into tellings wot do:
- Which bribe to take from the Maronites/Orthodox/whatever heretics these even are
- JIHAD!!!
We accept the gracious donation of elder scrolls. Soon we'll be able to master dragon shouts.
After which we go check what all the fuss is about in Antioch.
Lovely desert morning.
Here are the fortified enemies. They aren't as muslim as the mission preview would believe you to be.
The regiments are no problem, just white companies and crusader archers, but the catapult and ballista might be a problem.
The other enemy force has shittons of heavy infantry - 2x crusaders and 2x templars, which is going to be a HUGE pain. Also two bowmen units on top.
No sign of the third force that was supposed to come from the northeast. Suspicious.
We split the army to send all cavalry towards the siege weapons, and all the rest to ambush the templars & co.
An artistic picture of the charge of the seljuk light brigade, flung about by catapult fire
Not for too long however.
Trouble's getting closer with every second, so better hurry it up.
Naturally, the fucking ballista, right before it was cut down, had decided to switch targets and clobbered one of Saladin's dudes into the sand...
Still, this post is no longer a concern.
While the templars got within our archers' range. We really, really have to soften them on the approach.
Fortunately, the crusaders decide to chase after our cavalry, which gives us a lot of bonus time to shoot their faces.
And also lets us ride around them and murder their bowmen.
Meanwhile the third crusader detachment has finally arrived, and it looks like BIG TRUBBLE. Must be some Teuton expedition cuz it has langschilde and 2x styrian infantry. Also 2x spearmen and 2x crus archers.
not good at all
Mass arrow fire works pretty well to break the morale of even the toughest units.
Unfortunately that's all we can accomplish before things get personal.
I reposition the archers in preparation for the nazis, and note their stamina fell to a fat zero
Meanwhile the fleeing templars regroup.
Which is why we might want to bumrush them.
YALLA YALLA
The corpses on our side start piling up as the useless fucking seljuk swordsmen keep getting kicked around by generic crusaders
However, Allah be praised, the AI is too dumb to move the Germans.
So we can safely clean up here and rest.
Resting is super important now because almost ALL our units are out of stamina. Had the Germans attacked now, we'd be fucked.
Once everyone's had some pepsi, we can reposition to a nearby hill.
Keep firing, KEEP FIRING!
In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have bothered at all with shooting the crus archers and should have instead focused fully on the styrians. Oh well...
Here come the javelins
Also, the AI is actually cleverer than expected. I first tried to bait the javelins by running in with seljuk warriors, but it refused to comply.
The corpses pile ever higher, but I dare not engage with Saladin and the Circassians due to all the spearmen.
Meanwhile the seljuk horsemen run behind enemy lines to get rid of the archers
Mopping up
Huge losses, but the map wasn't actually the easiest. Lots of upper tier units against our
Fortunately, these being trash unit losses, the refills shouldn't be that costly.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Also, meet the Abbasid Lancers. They are an improvement over seljuk spearmen all around, but unfortunately not by a whole damn lot. I especially like how they have these shields and scale armours, but their ranged defence is still 0...
AND THEY EVEN HAVE THE SHIELD WALL ABILITY THAT RAISES RANGED DEF BY 50%
WHAT?
Some level ups
I grab Ambush for the assassinos. Pretty sure it makes for a better net damage increase than masterwork weaponry.
Saladin gets access to two new skills. Masterful tictacs.
Offensive strategy.
Needless to say, we will pump every possible point into offensive strategy from now on.
Now, time for some geld management
I first sell this piece of shit because what's its fucking point
I also get this upgrade. In the meantime I kicked the seljuk warriors and spearmen into the reserves too.
Voilla. Suddenly reinforcement costs go down from 18k to 10k.
Nevertheless, I reinforce neither Saladin nor Asad, because other matters need our dolla bills.
We are in desperate need of better archers.
These archers to be specific.
Allah akbar, who gives a shit about them fighting better in melee?!
Still, they also happen to have a lot better ranged damage than the Seljuks, and that's what counts.
And we have just enough cash to upgrade all of our archers into them.
They get a skill reroll, which gives me a short pause.
We're now sort of running out of areas with forests, I think, and archers typically have p. big losses, so I pick experienced retains over ambush.
Also, new event:
Fucking heretics.
You know, my biggest regret of the crusader campaign is that it didn't allow me to conquer Byzantium.
Anyways, this is a pretty silly event, "what kind of support do you need from them?" aka "how else can we word an event for free stuff?" and the rewards are obvious
- 6 Upgrade points
- Relic and armour
- 9k petrodollars
Antioch gives way to a new map.
Inb4 runtime errors!
Acre is largely a bizarro edition of the Crusader version of the map. We gotta split our army into two forces, then assign one to defend the city with siege weapons against the first wave of crusaders. After this is done, another wave of infidels will arrive, but we'll also get the second part of our army as reinforcements.
Other possible maps include: Arabia (oasis), Lesser Armenia (dudes on a hilltop with guard towers), Seljuk Sultanate (Turk rebels), Asia Minor (Hamburger Hill), Damascus (u wot m8)
Like always, plz be into tellings wot do:
- Which bribe to take from the Maronites/Orthodox/whatever heretics these even are
- JIHAD!!!
hello friend
Arcane
Reric + Armor
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Upgrade points. You don't really need more cash right now, do you? 
I don't care which map you take first though, so I'll abstain on that.
I don't care which map you take first though, so I'll abstain on that.
okay, here's the list of available missions atm, cuz they are easy to lose track of:
You can easily disregard Damascus and the Seljuk Sultanate for now, I'm p. sure.
You can easily disregard Damascus and the Seljuk Sultanate for now, I'm p. sure.
Let them bribe us with dinars.
Go for Jerusalem for moar dinars.
Go for Jerusalem for moar dinars.
SURAH 6 - BLOOD FOR PARADISE
We pressgang the Christians into giving up all the upgrade points they've stockpiled in their basements.
And we prepare to defend Acre with our lives!
I divide the army into archers + heavy hitters for the initial onslaught, and the rest for later reinforcements.
Dis gon be gud
Ah, no destructible walls and bastions.
That's good because the odds of runtime error go down significantly.
That's bad because all the holes in that fucking wall spell flanking disaster.
Nice details on some of those buildings.
10 engineering points don't give a lot of room to play with, so I set up 2 fire ballistas (unlike crusader siege weapons, you really want to max these out. They are crazy effective) and 2 patches of caltrops at the city entrances.
Here they come. And their advantage is overwhelming to say the least.
2x ENGLISH LONGBOWMEN, 2x crus archers, 1x KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, 2x langschilde, 4x vassals/white company, 3x spearmen.
I don't like this at all.
Also some pilgrims stashed here for whatever reason.
The templars park themselves at the left entrance and let themselves get pummeled by artillery. Don't mind if I do.
But obviously we switch targets to this juicy blob here the moment it enters our range.
... the crusaders are certainly performing some advanced manoeuvres here
Reminds me of Asterix and the roman legions scrambling into formation in a huge dust cloud.
Still, after a moment they finally decide to attack.
I put Saladin against the templars because everyone else is gon get trampled to death.
Let's hope the others finally start breaking because otherwise we'll be in BIG TRUBBLE.
They, in fact, don't start breaking. The gambit has failed.
BRACE FOR IMPACT
WHOA
Well, the morale fail domino came a bit late, but can't say it wasn't effective
Nevertheless, I'd rather see them run on the approach and not break in combat. That's because if units fly the white flag in combat, they typically still fight, while out of combat they just run in whatever direction, so we could shoot them out with archers. Meanwhile we'll be taking moar losses.
The effect of which is I gotta evac Saladin before he takes too much of a beating.
Also gotta commend the knights templar for holding out so damn long.
And here come the red flags, finally
... and here come the enemy reinforcements...
... spearheaded by two more regiments of knights templar
while the rest are 3x templars, 4x crus archers, 1x styrian infantry
THIS WILL BE A BLOODY FIGHT
Meanwhile our idiotic archers leave their cozy positions by the artillery for whatever idiotic reason and start taking shittons of casualties. Remember kids, NEVER GO THROUGH THE STREETS under arrow fire.
Our reinforcements finally make it in as well. But will they get to us in time?
And, most importantly, will they make a difference against all these fucking templars?
good that i picked experienced retainers for the turks
Anyway, the infidel vanguard has been sent to hell. We can now prepare ourselves for their friends.
But first lets try to get rid of these remaining cowardly archers.
It turns out to be a very dumb idea because the knights templar hunger for our seljuks.
This isn't really a fight we can win, especially with the rest of the heathens right there.
So I gtfo a moment later. We really have to get behind the artillery again.
However, one of the knight units refuses to fuck off, so I order the abbasid lancers into formation
And engage with the seljuk swordsmen as well.
But then the other knights come in from the flank
HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS
The first knight unit dies just as our dudes start getting trampled and shot. Allah be praised, they do not break. Because if they did, they'd both be toast.
The lancers manage to leg it with just 1 dude left
Here we go again, for another bloodbath.
Saladin, stop these templars from wrecking the artillery or I swear I'll have you beheaded.
Phew!
The heathen infantry might be a problem if they get near though.
The styrians fortunately get murdered by our bowmen.
Then the knights break
And finally so do the incoming templar footmen
While these cretins here just park themselves and do nothing, no doubt frozen in fear by our righteous might! Superfortunate this, because I'm kind of out of good units that could engage them...
Once the parked templars are killed, we can bombard the equally parked crusader archers.
Killing some of them makes the rest trigger, but it's no biggie.
At this point, the artillery and archers are enough to massacre any fools dumb enough to get too close.
Cleaning up stragglers.
This was a cool battle men
huge losses though so the refills will prob be costly
Yep
I kick out the lancers and swordsmen into the reserves, swap in the rested spearmen.
You know, I wonder if that's how the "economy" of the saracen is supposed to work and why you get a new unit for each map. You are supposed to cycle regiments in and out of the reserves all the time to conserve the cash. Because, remember, Richard could always get a loan from thejews venetians, while Saladin has to make do with what he has.
Much better.
Also, new unit. Slave heavy infantry, better in all ways than the pathetic seljuk swordsmen. Cool guys, wish we had more of them.
Some level-ups
Ah, turns out I was dumb. The lancers don't start with shield wall, but spear wall, as do all spearmen (+100% damage vs cavalry). Still, it's pretty hilarious that they can get shield wall here as their ranged defence is 0. However, after eating all the arrerz in the last battle, they got the "battered" accolade, which got them +30 ranged def, so shield wall is a no-brainer. Especially since the remaining abilities are terrible.
Experienced retainers for the circassians takes down another 1500 gold from the reinforcement cost. Neat.
Asad gets access to Cowardice and Cleave. I think he could use some offensive abilities, so I start pumping Cleave.
Turks get aimed shots + fire arrows, which is also fairly idiotic. One is +50% damage/-50% fire rate, the other +30% dmg/-30% fire rate. Also like how the fire arrows says "+30% damage (fire-based)", as if that even mattered.
Close combatant is a very mofo ability, and it took me a while to decide between this and arms-bearer. In the end I picked close combatant to maximise the glass cannon potential.
We have shittons of upgrade points, so I spend some. First, better healers for obvious reasons.
Then abbasid lancers. While not a pressing matter per se, it's more of an investment in the future, since it'll give us access to turk palace guards. And we really want to have turk palace guards.
Politicool event:
TRAITORS! HERETICS!
So the templar traditionalists want to see proper order restored... by allying with the saracen devils? Yeah makes perfect sense
Straightforward choice, although both options are enticing:
- The Templars will give us a Templar unit for free
- The Hospitallers will give us a reric and 2 upgrade points
New map:
"Extremely hard", I like the sound of that.
"This will be the end" indeed.
ALLAHU AKBAR!
Yeah, forget it. We'll be leaving Jerusalem for last, just like we did with Baghdad.
So the remaining options are: Arabia (oasis), Asia Minor (Hamburger Hill), Lesser Armenia (hilltop with guard towers).
SO
- Which knights' agenda do we support?
- JIHAD!!!!!!!!!
We pressgang the Christians into giving up all the upgrade points they've stockpiled in their basements.
And we prepare to defend Acre with our lives!
I divide the army into archers + heavy hitters for the initial onslaught, and the rest for later reinforcements.
Dis gon be gud
Ah, no destructible walls and bastions.
That's good because the odds of runtime error go down significantly.
That's bad because all the holes in that fucking wall spell flanking disaster.
Nice details on some of those buildings.
10 engineering points don't give a lot of room to play with, so I set up 2 fire ballistas (unlike crusader siege weapons, you really want to max these out. They are crazy effective) and 2 patches of caltrops at the city entrances.
Here they come. And their advantage is overwhelming to say the least.
2x ENGLISH LONGBOWMEN, 2x crus archers, 1x KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, 2x langschilde, 4x vassals/white company, 3x spearmen.
I don't like this at all.
Also some pilgrims stashed here for whatever reason.
The templars park themselves at the left entrance and let themselves get pummeled by artillery. Don't mind if I do.
But obviously we switch targets to this juicy blob here the moment it enters our range.
... the crusaders are certainly performing some advanced manoeuvres here
Reminds me of Asterix and the roman legions scrambling into formation in a huge dust cloud.
Still, after a moment they finally decide to attack.
I put Saladin against the templars because everyone else is gon get trampled to death.
Let's hope the others finally start breaking because otherwise we'll be in BIG TRUBBLE.
They, in fact, don't start breaking. The gambit has failed.
BRACE FOR IMPACT
WHOA
Well, the morale fail domino came a bit late, but can't say it wasn't effective
Nevertheless, I'd rather see them run on the approach and not break in combat. That's because if units fly the white flag in combat, they typically still fight, while out of combat they just run in whatever direction, so we could shoot them out with archers. Meanwhile we'll be taking moar losses.
The effect of which is I gotta evac Saladin before he takes too much of a beating.
Also gotta commend the knights templar for holding out so damn long.
And here come the red flags, finally
... and here come the enemy reinforcements...
... spearheaded by two more regiments of knights templar
while the rest are 3x templars, 4x crus archers, 1x styrian infantry
THIS WILL BE A BLOODY FIGHT
Meanwhile our idiotic archers leave their cozy positions by the artillery for whatever idiotic reason and start taking shittons of casualties. Remember kids, NEVER GO THROUGH THE STREETS under arrow fire.
Our reinforcements finally make it in as well. But will they get to us in time?
And, most importantly, will they make a difference against all these fucking templars?
good that i picked experienced retainers for the turks
Anyway, the infidel vanguard has been sent to hell. We can now prepare ourselves for their friends.
But first lets try to get rid of these remaining cowardly archers.
It turns out to be a very dumb idea because the knights templar hunger for our seljuks.
This isn't really a fight we can win, especially with the rest of the heathens right there.
So I gtfo a moment later. We really have to get behind the artillery again.
However, one of the knight units refuses to fuck off, so I order the abbasid lancers into formation
And engage with the seljuk swordsmen as well.
But then the other knights come in from the flank
HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS
The first knight unit dies just as our dudes start getting trampled and shot. Allah be praised, they do not break. Because if they did, they'd both be toast.
The lancers manage to leg it with just 1 dude left
Here we go again, for another bloodbath.
Saladin, stop these templars from wrecking the artillery or I swear I'll have you beheaded.
Phew!
The heathen infantry might be a problem if they get near though.
The styrians fortunately get murdered by our bowmen.
Then the knights break
And finally so do the incoming templar footmen
While these cretins here just park themselves and do nothing, no doubt frozen in fear by our righteous might! Superfortunate this, because I'm kind of out of good units that could engage them...
Once the parked templars are killed, we can bombard the equally parked crusader archers.
Killing some of them makes the rest trigger, but it's no biggie.
At this point, the artillery and archers are enough to massacre any fools dumb enough to get too close.
Cleaning up stragglers.
This was a cool battle men
huge losses though so the refills will prob be costly
Yep
I kick out the lancers and swordsmen into the reserves, swap in the rested spearmen.
You know, I wonder if that's how the "economy" of the saracen is supposed to work and why you get a new unit for each map. You are supposed to cycle regiments in and out of the reserves all the time to conserve the cash. Because, remember, Richard could always get a loan from the
Much better.
Also, new unit. Slave heavy infantry, better in all ways than the pathetic seljuk swordsmen. Cool guys, wish we had more of them.
Some level-ups
Ah, turns out I was dumb. The lancers don't start with shield wall, but spear wall, as do all spearmen (+100% damage vs cavalry). Still, it's pretty hilarious that they can get shield wall here as their ranged defence is 0. However, after eating all the arrerz in the last battle, they got the "battered" accolade, which got them +30 ranged def, so shield wall is a no-brainer. Especially since the remaining abilities are terrible.
Experienced retainers for the circassians takes down another 1500 gold from the reinforcement cost. Neat.
Asad gets access to Cowardice and Cleave. I think he could use some offensive abilities, so I start pumping Cleave.
Turks get aimed shots + fire arrows, which is also fairly idiotic. One is +50% damage/-50% fire rate, the other +30% dmg/-30% fire rate. Also like how the fire arrows says "+30% damage (fire-based)", as if that even mattered.
Close combatant is a very mofo ability, and it took me a while to decide between this and arms-bearer. In the end I picked close combatant to maximise the glass cannon potential.
We have shittons of upgrade points, so I spend some. First, better healers for obvious reasons.
Then abbasid lancers. While not a pressing matter per se, it's more of an investment in the future, since it'll give us access to turk palace guards. And we really want to have turk palace guards.
Politicool event:
TRAITORS! HERETICS!
So the templar traditionalists want to see proper order restored... by allying with the saracen devils?
Yeah makes perfect sense Straightforward choice, although both options are enticing:
- The Templars will give us a Templar unit for free
- The Hospitallers will give us a reric and 2 upgrade points
New map:
"Extremely hard", I like the sound of that.
"This will be the end" indeed.
ALLAHU AKBAR!
Yeah, forget it. We'll be leaving Jerusalem for last, just like we did with Baghdad.
So the remaining options are: Arabia (oasis), Asia Minor (Hamburger Hill), Lesser Armenia (hilltop with guard towers).
SO
- Which knights' agenda do we support?
- JIHAD!!!!!!!!!
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Arabia
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nope
SURAH 7 - LAND OF THE GIANTS
We accept the Hospitallers' generous gift of Points al-Upgrade and some probably worthless trinket they call a relic.
Can't really tell whether this is worthless or not, because, as I may have mentioned several times already, I have no idea what "resistance" even is.
Still, no harm in giving it to Sal, right?
Now, to business.
Great, desert again.
And catapults
Fortunately their guards are pathetic - 2x white company.
William of Stokesbury's retinue is also pretty pathetic. Except for the one regiment of templars, they are all trash-tier and squishy.
And then there's William himself. A true giant of a man!
We'll want to get rid of the catapults with cavalry and position the rest of our men at the oasis guard post.
Remembering sudden catapult target switching, I don't send Saladin in there however.
The Seljuks obviously start getting clobbered with boulders.
But eventually they reach the hill and engage the defenders.
The Circassians follow soon, also having lost a few men to the catapults.
Obviously one of the fucking seljuk units CAN'T EVEN HANDLE THE WHITE COMPANY, EVEN WITH SCATTER TURNED ON
The rest are fortunately good enough to chop up the catapults quickly. And then arrows start raining.
Check out these cheeky buggers
They know I can't attack them without support.
Your time will come Soon though you fucking infidels.
We regroup everyone.
This left flank looks like an obvious weak spot.
I send Saladin and Circassians there while our bowmen, boosted by the guard post, turn the enemy archers into pincushion.
Some advanced manoeuvres going on. I taunt the templars into following Saladin to stop them from capping the oasis.
First morale failures come about.
Then finally Rambo of Stokesbury decides to charge into us. For a supposed coward whose intent is to leg it from the desert, he sure is a feisty one.
Sal and the horsemen meawhile go berserk on squishies.
WHEN SUDDENLY, OUT OF THE FLANK...!
The hell are you guys doing here lol
meanwhile Asad is getting pounded by the crusader hero, ffs, so I order him to gtfo and then zoom on the situation
... SWEDEN, YES!
After which it's just about only the templars left on the field.
They aren't long for this world.
Salaam.
Easy peasy. The cavalry losses might cost a bit though.
zing
Pretty acceptable reinforcement costs. Won't have to kick anyone into the reserves.
Also, we can now recruit Ayyubid Infantry. These dudes are seriously serious despite being just light infantry, and at the same time they are cheap as hell. Their damage is crap, though still better than normal seljuk warriors, but their defensive stats are off the charts, especially ranged defence which is a whopping 60. That's heavy infantry-tier, and considering that light inf usually dies the most to archers, that's really useful.
Some level-ups.
Was considering scatter, but eh. Light infantry and archers are doomed when these guys run into them anyway. Took masterwork armoire.
Expert riding to reduce terrain penalties is a no-brainer.
We still have some spare cash, so I hop on to the upgrade trees and get this.
"WTF ar-Roxor, we don't even have any kaptins yet!" I hear you say, and it is certainly true. However, this shitty ability paves the way to:
This. Which is something we might want to get.
Sup, bro. Fancy seeing you here.
The army is now a true family reunion! Nevermind that during the Third Crusade, Turan Shah had already been about as dead as Asad ad-Din
Anyway, he already starts at level 3 and with 3 levels of armour/weapon upgrades, which is very gud. He also has access to a bunch of really neat abilities. One of them is new:
This looks p. enticing and it's a one-point-wonder, but I don't think there's a lot of point in picking it at this moment as our heavy cavalry is usually far away from the infantry. Maybe if Turan ends up on horseback some day we shall consider it. But for now I give him 2 levels of military engineer and 1 of overwhelming charge.
Polotix:
Wait, you mean the Bedouins AREN'T Saracens?
Yeah, this is another "get stuff for free" event. Options are p. cool:
- al-Tribe1 will get us Points al-Upgrade.
- al-Tribe2 will get us many dinars.
- al-Tribe3 will get us some junk to give to our units.
Arabia unlocks two new provinces:
Al-Nefud Desert
Bix nood.
Sebua is sure going to be pleased to meet up with Turan, the conqueror of Nubia
Ah, an escort mission. Get to the Nubian kang, save him from crusaders, got it.
One problem is we won't have our entire army in this mission. Dudes assigned to the second group will have to skip it.
Jordan
The traitorous emir is probably the one we evac'd from the map during the Crusader campaign.
Sandstorm and fortifications sound a bit counter-intuitive to me, cuz I assume catapult ranges get halved here too, but wot do I know.
Pretty vanilla objectives as well. Dig in, wait for the heathens, behead them.
Other missions still include Asia Minor (Hamburger Hill) and Lesser Armenia (hilltop with guard towers).
- Which tribe do we welcome into the welcoming embrace of Allah, the sticky-fingered?
- J I H A D!!!
We accept the Hospitallers' generous gift of Points al-Upgrade and some probably worthless trinket they call a relic.
Can't really tell whether this is worthless or not, because, as I may have mentioned several times already, I have no idea what "resistance" even is.
Still, no harm in giving it to Sal, right?
Now, to business.
Great, desert again.
And catapults
Fortunately their guards are pathetic - 2x white company.
William of Stokesbury's retinue is also pretty pathetic. Except for the one regiment of templars, they are all trash-tier and squishy.
And then there's William himself. A true giant of a man!
We'll want to get rid of the catapults with cavalry and position the rest of our men at the oasis guard post.
Remembering sudden catapult target switching, I don't send Saladin in there however.
The Seljuks obviously start getting clobbered with boulders.
But eventually they reach the hill and engage the defenders.
The Circassians follow soon, also having lost a few men to the catapults.
Obviously one of the fucking seljuk units CAN'T EVEN HANDLE THE WHITE COMPANY, EVEN WITH SCATTER TURNED ON
The rest are fortunately good enough to chop up the catapults quickly. And then arrows start raining.
Check out these cheeky buggers
They know I can't attack them without support.Your time will come Soon though you fucking infidels.
We regroup everyone.
This left flank looks like an obvious weak spot.
I send Saladin and Circassians there while our bowmen, boosted by the guard post, turn the enemy archers into pincushion.
Some advanced manoeuvres going on. I taunt the templars into following Saladin to stop them from capping the oasis.
First morale failures come about.
Then finally Rambo of Stokesbury decides to charge into us. For a supposed coward whose intent is to leg it from the desert, he sure is a feisty one.
Sal and the horsemen meawhile go berserk on squishies.
WHEN SUDDENLY, OUT OF THE FLANK...!
The hell are you guys doing here lol
meanwhile Asad is getting pounded by the crusader hero, ffs, so I order him to gtfo and then zoom on the situation
... SWEDEN, YES!
After which it's just about only the templars left on the field.
They aren't long for this world.
Salaam.
Easy peasy. The cavalry losses might cost a bit though.
zing
Pretty acceptable reinforcement costs. Won't have to kick anyone into the reserves.
Also, we can now recruit Ayyubid Infantry. These dudes are seriously serious despite being just light infantry, and at the same time they are cheap as hell. Their damage is crap, though still better than normal seljuk warriors, but their defensive stats are off the charts, especially ranged defence which is a whopping 60. That's heavy infantry-tier, and considering that light inf usually dies the most to archers, that's really useful.
Some level-ups.
Was considering scatter, but eh. Light infantry and archers are doomed when these guys run into them anyway. Took masterwork armoire.
Expert riding to reduce terrain penalties is a no-brainer.
We still have some spare cash, so I hop on to the upgrade trees and get this.
"WTF ar-Roxor, we don't even have any kaptins yet!" I hear you say, and it is certainly true. However, this shitty ability paves the way to:
This. Which is something we might want to get.
Sup, bro. Fancy seeing you here.
The army is now a true family reunion! Nevermind that during the Third Crusade, Turan Shah had already been about as dead as Asad ad-Din
Anyway, he already starts at level 3 and with 3 levels of armour/weapon upgrades, which is very gud. He also has access to a bunch of really neat abilities. One of them is new:
This looks p. enticing and it's a one-point-wonder, but I don't think there's a lot of point in picking it at this moment as our heavy cavalry is usually far away from the infantry. Maybe if Turan ends up on horseback some day we shall consider it. But for now I give him 2 levels of military engineer and 1 of overwhelming charge.
Polotix:
Wait, you mean the Bedouins AREN'T Saracens?
Yeah, this is another "get stuff for free" event. Options are p. cool:
- al-Tribe1 will get us Points al-Upgrade.
- al-Tribe2 will get us many dinars.
- al-Tribe3 will get us some junk to give to our units.
Arabia unlocks two new provinces:
Al-Nefud Desert
Bix nood.
Sebua is sure going to be pleased to meet up with Turan, the conqueror of Nubia
Ah, an escort mission. Get to the Nubian kang, save him from crusaders, got it.
One problem is we won't have our entire army in this mission. Dudes assigned to the second group will have to skip it.
Jordan
The traitorous emir is probably the one we evac'd from the map during the Crusader campaign.
Sandstorm and fortifications sound a bit counter-intuitive to me, cuz I assume catapult ranges get halved here too, but wot do I know.
Pretty vanilla objectives as well. Dig in, wait for the heathens, behead them.
Other missions still include Asia Minor (Hamburger Hill) and Lesser Armenia (hilltop with guard towers).
- Which tribe do we welcome into the welcoming embrace of Allah, the sticky-fingered?
- J I H A D!!!
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