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Here it is, my Antioch campaign from M2TW Kingdoms: The Crusades campaign. I had wanted to play as a French Crusader state for some time, so I tried the Chivalry route as the French in the main game. That got boring though so I went with the Kingdoms expansion. Usually I have a number of other screens to upload alongside my 'domination' piece, but after looking at the various screenshots, I didn't find the various battle results screens I took to be that impressive. Truth be told, there were a lot of battles that were really fucking tough, fighting against Egypt, Jerusalem, the Turks, the Byzantines...trying to capture them all would be a waste. So, keeping it simple, this is it.

1. Guy the Mauler/Merciless/Lord of Terror, d 1360: Syria, East Cyprus, central Anatolia, Egypt and North Africa
2. Thierry the Merciless/Mauler/Lord of Terror/The Mighty/Wrathful/Attacker (Guy’s grandson), d 1502: East Syria, Mesopotamia, the Levant, Arabia, West Cyprus
3. Milet the Merciless/Mauler/Mighty/Attacker/Lord of Terror/Mean/Infantryman, d: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Media, Anatolia, Byzantium
- Poncet d’Angers: Van, Trebizond Territories, Abydos

END GAME 1174-1700

My other Crusades campaign I played was as the Egyptians, and that was a damn good campaign. In playing different factions on the same map, its interesting to note the different routes of conquest one takes. As Egypt, after conquering north up into Syria, I then went west into Anatolia, then rounded back east to finish off the Turks.

Here, as Antioch, I secured Syria [starting position], then went south and took Africa. I then turned against my fellow Crusaders and defeated Jerusalem. At this point I had Mesopotamia and everything south of there. The reason why this campaign took 60 years longer was due in large part because after securing the aforementioned regions, I waited for a proper successor to continue my conquests. In playing TW, I never divide my forces to conquer huge areas all at once - I put all my forces under one general, who in essence becomes the "Mayor of the Palace."

Anyway, after sticking with Poncet [see above] for finishing off the Turks, I then found a better candidate in Milet Borain. Milet hammered away at the Greeks, but I felt bad for discarding Poncet, so I played him as a sort of "old guard" mentor who took on special assignments away from the main lines. In that regard, once I had conquered into central Anatolia, I was a crossroads - the main Greek forces were further west, but they had territories along the Black Sea I couldn't ignore. So I divided a chunk of my forces for the sole purpose of taking those territories.

Poncet did what he did best, and finished up at Heraclea, bordering along Venetian territory. I then had the old boy rendezvous with my main forces, and as I continued the conquests into Ionia, I divided forces again. One army to take Rhodes and Crete, Poncet to Abydos [on the mouth of the Dardanelles], and my star of the show, Milet, to take out the Venetians.

Milet destroyed all the Venetian family members in one battle, and that faction was then immediately destroyed [hence that last city there being Rebel]. Speaking of which, I should also note that, having played this map before, I was ready for the "mounted marauder" tactics of the Egyptians, Turks, Greeks, and Mongols - IE horse archers. Fortunately, the Antioch faction is not without its own horse archer units. By the end of the campaign, I had several horse archer units that had gold and silver chevrons.

Since I'm on the subject of exp points, I should also mention that that army Milet has there is new - my veteran units, Edessan Axemen mostly, I left as guard units in Ionia. After using them for a long time, several of them had acquired silver chevrons, but after a few bloody battles with the Greeks, their numbers were depleted and I decided to retire them in favour of 'standard issue' Knights of Antioch. Lastly, my cavalry there - I had a large army of Hospitaller Knights to draw from, so after getting several cavalry units gold chevrons, I retired them to use later as reinforcements. IE, if I bring in a Hospitaller unit with silver or bronze chevrons [or none], and they lose a few knights in battle, and I reinforce that unit with high exp [gold chevrons] unit, that unit will go up quite a few ranks.

Anyway...enjoy.

Description
Here it is, my Antioch campaign from M2TW Kingdoms: The Crusades campaign. I had wanted to play as a French Crusader state for some time, so I tried the Chivalry route as the French in the main game. That got boring though so I went with the Kingdoms expansion. Usually I have a number of other screens to upload alongside my 'domination' piece, but after looking at the various screenshots, I didn't find the various battle results screens I took to be that impressive. Truth be told, there were a lot of battles that were really fucking tough, fighting against Egypt, Jerusalem, the Turks, the Byzantines...trying to capture them all would be a waste. So, keeping it simple, this is it.

1. Guy the Mauler/Merciless/Lord of Terror, d 1360: Syria, East Cyprus, central Anatolia, Egypt and North Africa
2. Thierry the Merciless/Mauler/Lord of Terror/The Mighty/Wrathful/Attacker (Guy’s grandson), d 1502: East Syria, Mesopotamia, the Levant, Arabia, West Cyprus
3. Milet the Merciless/Mauler/Mighty/Attacker/Lord of Terror/Mean/Infantryman, d: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Media, Anatolia, Byzantium
- Poncet d’Angers: Van, Trebizond Territories, Abydos

END GAME 1174-1700

My other Crusades campaign I played was as the Egyptians, and that was a damn good campaign. In playing different factions on the same map, its interesting to note the different routes of conquest one takes. As Egypt, after conquering north up into Syria, I then went west into Anatolia, then rounded back east to finish off the Turks.

Here, as Antioch, I secured Syria [starting position], then went south and took Africa. I then turned against my fellow Crusaders and defeated Jerusalem. At this point I had Mesopotamia and everything south of there. The reason why this campaign took 60 years longer was due in large part because after securing the aforementioned regions, I waited for a proper successor to continue my conquests. In playing TW, I never divide my forces to conquer huge areas all at once - I put all my forces under one general, who in essence becomes the "Mayor of the Palace."

Anyway, after sticking with Poncet [see above] for finishing off the Turks, I then found a better candidate in Milet Borain. Milet hammered away at the Greeks, but I felt bad for discarding Poncet, so I played him as a sort of "old guard" mentor who took on special assignments away from the main lines. In that regard, once I had conquered into central Anatolia, I was a crossroads - the main Greek forces were further west, but they had territories along the Black Sea I couldn't ignore. So I divided a chunk of my forces for the sole purpose of taking those territories.

Poncet did what he did best, and finished up at Heraclea, bordering along Venetian territory. I then had the old boy rendezvous with my main forces, and as I continued the conquests into Ionia, I divided forces again. One army to take Rhodes and Crete, Poncet to Abydos [on the mouth of the Dardanelles], and my star of the show, Milet, to take out the Venetians.

Milet destroyed all the Venetian family members in one battle, and that faction was then immediately destroyed [hence that last city there being Rebel]. Speaking of which, I should also note that, having played this map before, I was ready for the "mounted marauder" tactics of the Egyptians, Turks, Greeks, and Mongols - IE horse archers. Fortunately, the Antioch faction is not without its own horse archer units. By the end of the campaign, I had several horse archer units that had gold and silver chevrons.

Since I'm on the subject of exp points, I should also mention that that army Milet has there is new - my veteran units, Edessan Axemen mostly, I left as guard units in Ionia. After using them for a long time, several of them had acquired silver chevrons, but after a few bloody battles with the Greeks, their numbers were depleted and I decided to retire them in favour of 'standard issue' Knights of Antioch. Lastly, my cavalry there - I had a large army of Hospitaller Knights to draw from, so after getting several cavalry units gold chevrons, I retired them to use later as reinforcements. IE, if I bring in a Hospitaller unit with silver or bronze chevrons [or none], and they lose a few knights in battle, and I reinforce that unit with high exp [gold chevrons] unit, that unit will go up quite a few ranks.

Anyway...enjoy.