One of Ten Thousand

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The CrusadesExpansion eras

1096–1192

The Crusades (1096–1192). You start as Foot soldier and could rise all the way to Count, if you survive. This era covers 24 historical battles.

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Historical battles

YearBattleEst. casualties
1096The People's CrusadePeter the Hermit led tens of thousands of commoners ahead of the main army. They were slaughtered by the Turks outside Nicaea.≈60%
1097Siege of NicaeaAfter seven weeks of siege, the city surrendered — to the Byzantine emperor.≈4%
1097Battle of DorylaeumTurkish horse archers surrounded the vanguard until the rearguard arrived and turned the battle.≈6%
1098Siege of AntiochEight months of siege. In winter more men starved than died fighting. In the end a traitor inside opened a gate.≈12%
1098Battle of AntiochThe city had barely fallen when the army of Mosul surrounded it. Someone dug up the Holy Lance under a church floor, and the starving host marched out and, against all odds, won.≈5%
1099Siege of JerusalemOn 15 July the siege towers reached the walls. What followed the breach was a massacre.≈8%
1099Battle of AscalonThe Fatimid relief army from Egypt was routed by the sea.≈3%
1104Battle of HarranThe armies of Edessa and Antioch were crushed, and the Count of Edessa was taken prisoner.≈15%
1105Third Battle of RamlaKing Baldwin held off the Egyptian army once again.≈6%
1119Field of BloodRoger, regent of Antioch, advanced recklessly. His whole army was destroyed and he died with it.≈40%
1124Siege of TyreA Venetian fleet sealed off the sea, and Tyre surrendered after five months.≈4%
1125Battle of AzazBaldwin II defeated the army of Mosul against heavy odds.≈4%
1144Fall of EdessaZengi took Edessa. The first crusader state was gone. When the news reached Europe, the Pope called a new crusade.≈10%
1148Siege of DamascusThe kings of the Second Crusade besieged the city for four days and then withdrew. No one could quite say why.≈6%
1153Siege of AscalonTemplars rushed the breach ahead of everyone; all forty were killed. Seven months later the city surrendered anyway.≈15%
1164Battle of HarimNur ad-Din won a great victory and the Prince of Antioch was captured.≈25%
1167Battle of al-BabeinKing Amalric invaded Egypt and fought Shirkuh's army to a draw at the edge of the desert.≈8%
1177Battle of MontgisardThe sixteen-year-old Leper King, Baldwin IV, with fewer than five hundred knights, routed Saladin's army.≈5%
1179Siege of Jacob's FordSaladin stormed the Templars' unfinished castle. Nearly the whole garrison was killed or captured.≈40%
1187Battle of CressonA hundred and forty knights charged seven thousand. The Grand Master of the Templars rode back with only two men.≈60%
1187Battle of HattinThe kingdom's entire army was surrounded on waterless hills. The True Cross was taken, the king was captured, and every captured Templar was beheaded.≈55%
1191Siege of AcreThe besiegers were themselves besieged by Saladin. In two years more men died of disease than in battle.≈12%
1191Battle of ArsufRichard's army marched down the coast under a rain of arrows for days, until the Hospitallers could bear it no longer and charged, and the whole army followed.≈5%
1192Battle of JaffaWith a few dozen knights and two thousand foot, Richard threw back Saladin's counterattack.≈6%

Casualty rates are the game's estimates from historical sources, used to work out the chance of dying. Treat them as approximate.

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