Medieval 2 Kingdoms Crusades Music - Against the Rock

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[nrjelley]

@alphatotheomega7 UN doesn't do anything anyway, it's a stupid institution!

[Retillias]

"How the Hell did we get way out here?"

[Oyrad58]

@AlbertusMagnus100 yea thats why we still find the crusader skeletons in the skirts of taurus mountains in anatolia :))

[AlbertusMagnus100]

@Oyrad58 The Battle of Iconium saw Barbarossa's troops suffer comparably light casualites compared to the Turks, so obviously the Turks *tried* to fight man to man and failed. And I was referring to the infantry, their light cotton/wool armour absorbed the power behind the arrows, rendering the largest number of them ineffective. It's only once Barbarossa died that a disorganised, demoralised, and separated German army faced a desperate situation.

[Oyrad58]

@AlbertusMagnus100 smashed our army?? no its not true. barbarossa's army was HUGE. thats why Turks used guerilla (hit and run) tactics for them. and yes, some crusaders have heavy armored, but those compises perhaps only %10 of the crusader army... everybody think that all crusaders were heavy armoured kinghts. false... most of the crusaders were infantries, they were slow. thats why Turks can easily harrassed them. they lost many men while passing anatolia

[AlbertusMagnus100]

@Oyrad58 I see, but the Crusaders (while Frederick was still alive) smashed a Turkish army at Iconium, so its not like the Turks were simply unmatched on the battlefield. Horse archers had their weaknesses too. (An interesting side note, during Richards march to Jaffa from Acre, soldiers reported arrows striking them, but getting caught in their quilted armor, thus doing no harm. Another possible weakness to horse-borne bow-reliant armies)

[Oyrad58]

@AlbertusMagnus100 many of them couldnt made it. Turks were horse archers, they used guerilla tactics against slow-huge crusader armies. they lost most of their men. just check the barbarossa's march

[AlbertusMagnus100]

@Oyrad58 You seem to have missed the point of my comment, the Crusaders under Barbarossa weren't defeated in Asia, they turned back, discouraged at the death of the Kaiser. And yes, many crusader armies tried to pass through Turkish territory, many made it. The heaviest fighting was in Palestine, hands down.

[Oyrad58]

@AlbertusMagnus100 barbarossa was just one of them...there were many crusader army tried to pass anatolia. Actually, the real defenders of the crusades were Turks. Even many egyptian sultan was of turkish origin. For example aybek, baybars, qutuz,. The mamluk warriors were also turks.

[AlbertusMagnus100]

@Oyrad58 Think of what you typed, thats a 110 year period, not even a fraction of those soldiers would have been Barbarossa's Germans (He started with only 100,000 men). Besides, half a million over the course of a century isn't exactly a spectacular loss of life, average for the middle ages, i'd say. Oh, and yes, western Anatolia (I prefer the old Roman designation "Asia") was still under the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire.

[Oyrad58]

@Wuanslm r u idiot or what? And half million crusader rabble massacred in anatolia between 1090-1200 ad. Even Turks still found those skeletons in the skirt of the taurus mountains. anatolia wasnt part of the byzantine u fool, but part of Seljuk empire, led by Kılıch Arslan!