Avoid engaging the Muslim army and just try to conquer counties faster than they liberate them. Originally posted by sbudy:Crusades are decided by money, patience and siege engines, not necessarily soldiers. If you have INSANE amounts of gold (another unlikely, but.) you can counter the enemy with buying ALL THE MERCS! The issue there lies with speed of army, which is difficult if you don't have terrain advantage and commander buffs or aren't martial-focused. The NPCs SHOULD go and capture the de jure territories of the crusade in enough time that the tick goes back in your favor. My main army on cypress then bobs and weaves around Israel and away from terrain traps that the enemy often will try to lure you into. Have a mercenary army on the far tip of Non-Iberian Muslim Africa, which often takes out the #2 and 3 player of the caliphate. I tend to take Cypress first as a landing station to rest/heal in and then direct my forces from there. Got some nice commanders, but they dont whip 25k muslims on their own :Dĭo you arrive before, after, or about the same time as the ally blob? Flexible leader or holy warrior(?) helps against fighting Muslim armies if you're christan.Īll great and dandy, but I have to work with what I got on my ironman run.

My 'chaser' who is full of speed buffs, my sieger (military engineer) and my supplier (for fights of attrition). Originally posted by xəʁ:I also have the three or four commander archtypes.

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