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Summer Campaign 2007 Summer 2007 Tournament. |
View Poll Results: Who would you vote for?
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Saladin
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56.19% |
Cromwell
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43.81% |
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15 Jul 07, 16:03
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Dublin
Posts: 8,336
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Desert King
Well said...Alas, I must side with Salahuddin.
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LoL- He says and then puts the boot (or Saracen slipper) in. Where are the Welsh when you really need them? The Cromwell family rode in on Henry Tudor's Welsh coat-tails... We just need 11 of you or my Forum Family to vote and we'll move him on to the next round...
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16 Jul 07, 10:03
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Real Name: Paul
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 29,273
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After playing 'Age of Kings', I'm now a keen Saladin convert!
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16 Jul 07, 18:15
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Great State of North Carolina
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Quote:
Originally Posted by General Staff
LoL- He says and then puts the boot (or Saracen slipper) in. Where are the Welsh when you really need them? The Cromwell family rode in on Henry Tudor's Welsh coat-tails... We just need 11 of you or my Forum Family to vote and we'll move him on to the next round...
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Tis sad indeed. I wish they hadnt been paired together. I owe you one.
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16 Jul 07, 21:59
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: COP Peacemaker
Posts: 594
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Originally Posted by Swampwolf
Exactly. Edward 1 threw them out of England but he could even beat Saladin I think.
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Swampwolf -
I think you and I share a brain... everytime I want to type a response, I just scroll down a little and see that you're already answered it... however - I don't think Eddie could've beaten the Ayyubid Sultan...
For the record - I did vote for Saladin - Although in almost everything I've ever read, he's depicted as a fraile, short man that was more interested in Sunni Orthodoxy than brushing up on his military tactics... Kind of makes you wonder if he was a good field commander - or just inherited his uncle's military might...? 
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16 Jul 07, 22:41
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Real Name: Dick Largest
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: TX
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Saladin's military innovation shouldn't be ignored, as it defined Islamic warfare for the next several hundred years. His elite guards of Turkish stock were more professional and more capable of beating the sporty Crusaders than the local levies had been. I'm sure the details of his army often escape the memories of his modern Islamic admirers, but it certainly had its impact on history.
Cromwell's innovation was simply much more decisive and has really developed into the modern army: His doctrine was a disciplined, ideologically driven, proletarian army. It wasn't the first of any of those things (armies of the 30 years war were disciplined and ideological, but were heavily mercenary), but it was the first since the Ancient times to combine them all into one.
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17 Jul 07, 07:25
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Real Name: piero
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: geneva
Posts: 5,363
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Saladin.
smart, efficient, master of logistics, could switch between brutality and compassion depending of the foe, master in psychology, leader of men from different backgrounds.
what a great kurdish General he could have made in the Byzantine Army had that empire not been beaten by the Sassanids and later by the Arabs...
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17 Jul 07, 08:50
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Toronto
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Saladin didn't defeat the second crusade. Both the french and the austrians went home after minor arguments with the lionheart. Richard in fact defeated saladin in one of the only pitched battles of the second crusade. Yet it would be hard to take Jerrusilam with only the english army and a few german knights. Cromwell is a far better choice his armies defeated a enemy in a better position. He also developed I think new calvary tactics that were used until the 20th century. His soldiers advantige was that he insisted on them carrying a large pistol which allowed them to blow the royal cavaliers up at a distance. Another advantige was that the men in his new model army were mostly well behaved who didn't engage in any of the typical army behavior once they captured a town. All and all cromwell is a better general. Saladin was however far more tollerant then cromwell and thus should be commended for that.
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17 Jul 07, 20:42
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Real Name: Gerry Proudfoot
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Protestant
Saladin didn't defeat the second crusade....
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DO you not mean the Third Crusade? Iirc, the Second Crusade was something of a fiasco for the Christians. 
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18 Jul 07, 06:17
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Real Name: Jason St.Just
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Purist
DO you not mean the Third Crusade? Iirc, the Second Crusade was something of a fiasco for the Christians. 
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Except for the First Crusade, ALL crusades were a fiasco for the Christians !!!
Greets,
Stratego
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18 Jul 07, 23:14
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Real Name: Dick Largest
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: TX
Posts: 1,094
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stratego
Except for the First Crusade, ALL crusades were a fiasco for the Christians !!!
Greets,
Stratego
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Don't forget about the 'Northern Crusades'
Without that, there never would have been a Prussia.
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19 Jul 07, 09:00
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Toronto
Posts: 44
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Purist
DO you not mean the Third Crusade? Iirc, the Second Crusade was something of a fiasco for the Christians. 
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Oh gee thanks for pointing that out.
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