The Crusades (Game Thread)

[Alcibaides]

Let the Crusades begin.....


Civs:
Turks (McMonkey)
Arabs (Civilionaut)
Holy Roman Empire (AI)
Spanish (CupCoffee)
French (Ingvar)
Anglo-Normans (Alcibaides)
Byzantine Empire (Historical Atze)

Download files here:
http://sleague.apolyton.net/index.ph...=Crusades_1100

House Rules:
-No founding of new cities, only re-establishing raized ones
-No attacking the AI controlled Holy Roman Empire, unless a 7th human player comes along and takes over.
-No bribing any units or cities, not even the barbarians
-No re-homing trade units.
-No technology trading

You may wage war with anyone you want, however it is strongly encouraged that the Christians team up against the Muslims and vice-versa.

I have attached the new events and rules file, which were edited slightly to beef up the power of the 2 Muslim nations and the barbarians.

The Byzantine Empire to begin......

[Historical Atze]

Nothing happened.

[McMonkey]

Sultan Kilij Arslan of the Seljuk Turks declares a Jihad against the barbarian Crusader states based around Antioch and Jerusalem. All Muslim warriors are required to present themselves for service in the Sultans army until such time as the Infidels are driven from our lands.



In battle a total of three Crusaders and two of the Footsoldier followers (all Franks) are killed around Edessa, Aleppo and Damascus

[Alcibaides]

Nice post McMonkey. Love the pictures.

You were rather ambiguous in your declaration of war though, you mentioned Antioch and Jerusalem but no Anglo-Norman cities in the Levant. Does that mean you are also at war with the Anglo-Normans or not?

Civilionaut up next...

[Civilionaut]

Civilionaut up next...

erst Maradona, dann die Arabs

[Alcibaides]

erst Maradona, dann die Arabs

Did I get the play order wrong? Who's "Maradona"?

[Historical Atze]

Diego Armando Maradona, one of world's best ever football players.

[Alcibaides]

I know who Maradona is. What has he got to do with the Crusades?

Is he watching something on t.v?

[McMonkey]

Civi was "enjoying" Argentina 1-0 Germany before playing his turn.

[Alcibaides]

Ah, now I get the reference. You guys lost to the Argies today.

Ballack had some choice words about the Argies before the game:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/s...ow/5634467.cms

What happened to his eye?

[Civilionaut]

What happened to his eye?

from Inter Mailand

[cupcoffee]

The crowns of Castile and Aragon urges their brothers in faith to send their men who wish to test their piety against Saracen steel, to the defense for the devout but battered people of Iberia and to do the good lord's work.
Take heed, lest all of Christendom unites against this perile, the Moorish bloodlust would surely not be satisfied should their hordes reach the Pyrenees.

Deus vult!

[Ingvar]

The Kingdom of Jerusalem looks forward to testing their weapons against the Infidel hordes of Sultan Kilij Arslan.

1 Seljuk Infantry slain at Antioch, also one unknown unit stacked under it.

[McMonkey]

You were rather ambiguous in your declaration of war though, you mentioned Antioch and Jerusalem but no Anglo-Norman cities in the Levant. Does that mean you are also at war with the Anglo-Normans or not?

Not if you leave the Middle East right away. If you stay though, you are doomed!

[Alcibaides]

Anno Domini 1102....



Roger II, King of the Normans has vowed to dedicate his life in the service of the Lord, defending the Christian Holy Land from the Turk.