Latinikon said:
3. Mamluke sultanate, uber scum on this earth, have 40 lords!!! 40. Come on man, Its impossible to fight them of (I live as a lord of Crusader states). Yes, thats true, dozen or even two dozen of Mameluke lords have from 5 to 20 troops, but dude, their small parties are composed totally of uber heavily armored mamelukes and guards. You do the math, 12 of Mameluke lords + each has at least 4 Mameluke bodyguards.... Oh come on man, its not fair. Damnit. They should have 20 lords just as any other faction. Viagra was not invented back then, its just unbelievable they are so numerous.
Funny, in my game they have been pushed back and now only own Cairo by the crusaders and the Romans in turkey. In fact I earned a lot of money looting and burning them up and raiding their lords that come out from their hiding holes. The only problem I had from them were the Mameluke calvary, if I didn't deal with them they cut my guys up pretty good. Otherwise they got wiped pretty easily. The idea is to not let 12 lords attack you at once...hit them one at a time and pretty soon they'll be to weak to face your factions army.
Also I'm playing with 600 size battlesizer, and using about 30 elite calvary and no foot troops. I let them walk a good distance (they won't rout until a certain amount of time) then when it feels right I smash my men right into their mass of weak infantry. Do it right and you can slaughter enough of their weak guys fast enough that their entire army routs, then you can mop them up. It works wonders, I was in one battle between the crusaders and them, and I let my allies be the anvil while my calvary hit them from behind like a hammer, was a complete rout, about 100 of them dropping in about 20 seconds, the other 200 or so ran, and got hacked to pieces.
