The Crusades - C3C

[luiz]

This is actually a series of 3 scenarios(The First, Second and Third Crusades). Check the 2 following posts.
For screenshots, check the second page of this thread.

The First Crusade v2.2
Now with new units and edited Civilopedia!

For severall decades, the Army of the Seljuk Turks was attacking and occupying the Bizantine lands in Asia. By 1095, they had conquered all of the Asian portion of the Byzantine Empire, and were marching towards Constantinople.
Fearing for the survival of his Empire, Emperor Alexius Comneus sent ambassadors to the Vatican to beg help from his western christian brothers. The pope Urban II accepted the appeal of the Byzantines, and on 27 of November of 1095 he gave his famous speech in Clermont, where he called for a Crusade to help the eastern christians and to take over the Holy Land, that was under the controll of another muslim nation, the Fatimid Caliphate.
Even though Urban II wanted a professional army, the first people to listen to his demand were barely armed commoners, lead by Peter the Hermit. Obviously, the "forces" commanded by Peter were quickly slaughtered by the Seljuk Army under Kiliji Arslan as soon as they reached Asia.

The first actual soldiers arrived in early 1097. They came mainly from the Provence, Champagne, Flanders, Lotharinge, Normandy and Southern Italy(that was under norman occupation). Kiliji Arslan thought that they would be no different then the "troops" lead by Peter the Hermit, and he paid much for this mistake. The european knights defeated his mounted archers and infantry, and sieged his capital, Nicae, that surrendered to the crusaders. They also captured Antioch and other major cities of the Seljuk Empire. Finally, by the end of 1099, after a long siege, the crusaders captured Jerusalem and massacred the muslims and jews who lived there(the christians had been expelled by the muslim rulers).

These are the Civs in this scenario
Leon and Castille
Caliphate of Cordoba
France
England
Scotland
Irish Kingdoms
Holy Roman Empire
Appulia-Calabria
Kingdom of Denmark
Poland
Principality of Kiev
Hungary
Byzantine Empire
Seljuk Empire
Fatimid Caliphate

New Units
-Byzantine Empire: Cataphract
-Apulia-Calabria: Norman Knight

Special Units:
-Byzantines: Byzantine Legionary
-Seljuk Turks: Mounted Archer; Turkish Swordsman
-Fatimid Caliphate: Nubian Infantry
They don't start golden age, though.
The crusader nations have some "Crusader" units, but they can't build them.

Jerusalem has alot of value in this scenario. Whoever holds it for most time has a great chance of winning with victory points.

Suggestions welcome, and have fun.

This is version 2.2
Changes from 2.1: Minor corrections, Edessa added
Changes from 2.0: New unit, minor corrections.
Changes from 1.1: New unit and Edited Civilopedia of the Special Units, as well as minor corrections
Chnges from 1.0 to 1.1:fixed some problems of the Unit Tree

Version 1.0 removed after 19 downloads
Version 1.1 removed after 18 downloads
Version 2.0 removed after 4 downloans(Hey, I did 2 uptades in the same day!)
Version 2.1 removed after 12 downloads

Important
Now there are 2 parts you must download. The first contain Art and Tex Files, and the other is the scenario in itself.
Just extract both to the Scenarion folder, and it should work.

Download Part 1

 

[luiz]

The Second Crusade

Following the success of the First Crusade, a christian kingdom and severall christian counties were stablished in the Middle East(The Byzantine Empire also regained controll of severall cities in Western Turkey). They were known as Crusader Kingdom or Latin Kingdom, and the most important one was the Kingdom of Jerusalem, ruled at the time of the Second Crusade by Baldwin III.
Surrounded by enemies, the Crusader Kingdom was constantly at war. Some western europeans believed that the Latins(the franks who ruled the Crusader Kingdom were known as Latins) were becoming effeminate by adopting the culture of their muslim neighbours, and they blamed this when the County of Edessa fell in the hands of the Seljuk Caliphate of Baghdad(the Seljuk Empire was divided in severall kingdoms, the most important ones beign the Sultanate of Rum and the Seljuk Caliphate of Baghdad) in December 24 of 1144.
Fearing for the survival of the christian kingdom in the Holy Land, the pope Eugenius III issued a bull calling for a new Crusade. The bull was ignored at first, but because of the enthusiastic preaching of the monk Bernard de Clairveux the Crusade gained the support of the King of France, Louis VII, and of the Emperor of the Holy Empire, Conrad III. This was the first time that european monarchs would particpate in a Crusade.
Some english nobles were also convinced by Bernard to fight in the Crusade, but they were persuated by the King of Castilla to first make a stop at Spain and help him take Lisbon from the Moors. With the english help, Lisbon was once again under christian rule. A few english soldiers also continued their way to the Holy Land, but most returned home.
The German and French crusaders left their homes in May of 1147. The germans were the first to arrive, in September of the same year. Shortly before their arrival, however, half of the german Army was ambushed by troops of the Sultanate of Rum and destroyed. The Emperor Conrad III realised that the crusade was a failure and left his remaining troops under the command of some nobleman, and returned to Constantinople from where he would return home. When the french arrived, in early 1148, the germans were almost completely defated. Louis VII decided to carry on with the Crusade, however, and continued his journey towards Jerusalem, constantly under the attack of turkish Mounted Archers.
Reaching Jerusalem, he was convinced by the king Baldwin III that the only way to save Jerusalem would be an attack against Damascus, to force the muslim troops attacking his kingdom go defend Damascus. The siege of Damascus was a complete failure, the Crusaders run out of water and were forced to lift it after a few days. They also suffered considerable losses and were constantly attacked. Louis VII finally decided to return to France, and he blamed the Byzantines for his failure, because they had made peace with Turks and probably had an agreement to delay the french troops. That's why he returned in Sicilian ship instead of a byzantine one, and the norman kingdom of Sicily was at war with the Byzantine Empire.
The disaster of the Second Crusade opened the way for the fall of Jerusalem.

These are the Civs in the Second Crusade scenario:
Kingdom of Sicily
Poland
Holy Roman Empire
Principality of Kiev
Crusader Kingdom
France
England
Leon and Castille
Denmark
Sultanate of Rum
Irish Kingdoms
Fatimid Caliphate
Seljuk Caliphate of Baghdad(Abbassid Caliphate under Seljuk rule)
Caliphate of Cordoba
Scotland
Hungary
Byzantine Empire

New Units:
Byzantines - Cataphract
Kingdom of Sicily - Norman Knight
Crusader Kingdom - Knight Hospitaller
Holy Roman Empire - Teutonic Knight*

Special Units
France - Knight Templar
Sultanate of Rum and Seljuk Caliphate of Baghdad - Mounted Archer, Turkish Swordsman
Fatimid Caliphate - Nubian Infantry

*The Teutonic Order was formally created only 1196, and so didn't exist during the Second Crusade. However, a considerable number of groups of knights in Germany had already copied the rules of the Templars, and as such there was indeed some sort of military/religious order already at that time.

Important
You must download the two parts to play the scenario!
Both must be extracted to the scenarios folder.

Download Part 1

 

[luiz]

The Third Crusade

An indirect member of the Seljuk Dinasty, Saladin, a kurd, managed to take power over Syria after the death of Nur ed-Din. Following this, he also manged to occupy most of Iraq and the entire Egypt, creating a new dinasty, the Ayyubids. This made his domains surround the Crusader Kingdom. The Turks of the Sultanate of Rum had also once again expelled the Byzantines from Asia.

His greatest goal was to expell all crusaders from the Middle-East, and soon he begun his attack against the Latins. In July 4 1189 he won the Battle of Hattin, and in October 2 of the same year Jerusalem surrendered. Th Kingdom of Jerusalem was no more. The crusaders only kept two major cities in the region: Tripoli, ruled by the Franks, and Antioch, ruled by the Normans.

Pope Gregory VIII called for a new crusade, and he wanted the kings of France and England to lead it personally. France and England stopped their war temporarily, but due to a rebellion of prince Richard against his father king Henry II, the english could not go on crusade.

The first to answer to the pope call and leave in Crusade was Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, of the Holy Roman Empire. He left in the end of 1189. Barbarossa however faced opposition of the Byzantine Emperor, Isaac II Angelus, who had a secret treaty with Saladin to delay the germans. Despite that, Frederick passed through byzantine territory as quickly as possible and arrived Asia in the same year. He defeated a seljuk army of the Sultanate of Rum and captured their capital, Konya(Iconium). Unfortunately, the Emperor drowned at the river Saleph on June 10 of 1190. Without his leadership, his large army was quickly defeated by Saladin as soon as they reached Syria.

Phillipe Auguste and Richard Lionheart travelled separately by sea to the Holy Land in 1191. On the way, Richard stopped at Cypruss, where his sister had beign kidnapped by the independent byzantine ruler of the island, Isaac Comneus. Outraged, Richard Lionheart landed with his army and quickly conquered the whole Cypruss. He then sold it to the nominal king of Jerusalem and his ally, Guy of Lusignan.

Meanwhile, Philipe had arrived at Tyre and allied himself with Conrad of Montferrat, who also claimed the kingship of Jerusalem. The two besieged Acre in April, 1191, with help from the remnants of Frederick's army, and Richard arrived to take charge of the siege in June. Saladin's army attempted to break the siege, but were turned away, and the city was taken on July 12. The three Christian commanders fought for power amongs themselves; Leopold of Austria, the German commander, wanted to be recognized equally with Richard and Phillipe, but Richard removed Leopold's banner from the city. Philipe, also frustrated with Richard, left the Holy Land in August.

On August 22, Richard executed the 3000 Muslim prisoners he still had in his custody at Acre, when he felt Saladin was not honouring the terms of Acre's surrender.

Richard then decided to take the port of Jaffa, which he would need to launch an attack on Jerusalem; while on the march, Saladin attacked him at Arsuf in September, but Richard won a resounding victory, even though he was completely outnumbered.

By January of 1192, Richard was ready to march on Jerusalem, but Saladin had reinforced his army and fortified the city. Richard came within sight of Jerusalem twice, but each time retreated in the face of Saladin's larger army. Saladin then attempted to retake Jaffa in July, but was defeated by Richard's now much smaller force on July 31.

On September 2, 1192, Richard and Saladin finalized a treaty by which Jerusalem would remain under Muslim control, but which also allowed unarmed Christian pilgrims to visit the city. Richard left for England at the end of September, ending the Crusade.

The scenario starts right when the crusader troops arrived the ME

Civs of this scenario:
Kingdom of Sicily
Poland
Holy Roman Empire
Principality of Kiev
France
England
Leon and Castile
Denmark
Sultanate of Rum
Hungary
Ayyubid Caliphate
Almohad Caliphate
Scotland
Portugal
Byzantine Empire

Special Units:
Sultanate of Rum: Mounted Archer; Turkish Swordsman
Ayyubid Caliphate: Mounted Archer; Turkish Swordsma; Nubian Infantry
France, England, Portugal, Leon and Castile: Knight Templar
Byzantines: Byzantine Legionary

New Units
Byzantines: Cataphract
France: Knight Hospitaller
Holy Roman Empire: Teutonic Knight
England, Kingdom of Sicily: Norman Knight

Important
To play this scenario you must have downloaded "Part 1" of "The Second Crusade".

PS: If you don't have Conquests, you can try my old Civ3 scenario about the Third Crusade here

 

[Johann MacLeod]

no actual new units then? there's quite a few out there that fit this time frame. and iirc the Holy Roman Empire hadn't conquered Italy yet.

 

[luiz]

no actual new units then? there's quite a few out there that fit this time frame. and iirc the Holy Roman Empire hadn't conquered Italy yet.

I understand that most like new units, but they are not really needed in this scenario.
They make the DL huge, and with all modesty I made a good job adapting the existing units

As for the Holy Roman Empire, the scenario is correct. All of Northern Italy was under Imperial rule. The city of Rome, however, was independent, but I included it in the Empire for playability reasons and because the Emperor had huge influnce on the Vatican, and vice-versa. You can check a map of Europe in 1100 here

 

[luiz]

I uploaded a 1.1 version that fixes some problems of the Unit Tree of the old version. Settlers are also more expensive now.

The Second Crusade should be ready by the end of next week.

 

[Isembard]

Just a few quick notes :

- Bordeux is Bordeaux
- Calais was french : although it was the property of the heirs of William the Conqueror, the Duchy of Normandy still owed allegiance to the king of France.
- You left out Sweden ?

I also think that Poland did not control Minsk, although i might very well be msitaken...I'm working on a small scenario like this for my own personal use, set in 1100, and finding accurate map data for cities was rather difficult

 

[luiz]

Just a few quick notes :

- Bordeux is Bordeaux
- Calais was french : although it was the property of the heirs of William the Conqueror, the Duchy of Normandy still owed allegiance to the king of France.
- You left out Sweden ?

I also think that Poland did not control Minsk, although i might very well be msitaken...I'm working on a small scenario like this for my own personal use, set in 1100, and finding accurate map data for cities was rather difficult

I always spell Bordeaux wrong, sorry about that

As for the Duchy of Normandy, its situation appears to be rather ambiguous. As you can see on this map, it is portrayed as an english territoy under french influence/rule.

And I believe Poland did rule Minsk, but I might also be mistake.

Sweden was left out because its most important regions were ruled by Denmaker back in 1100.

 

[luiz]

I understand that most like new units, but they are not really needed in this scenario.
They make the DL huge, and with all modesty I made a good job adapting the existing units
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But sometimes we must obey the majority

Version 2.1 has new units, and expect more in the Second and Third Crusades!

 

[Zuberbuler]

luiz take some historical lesson!!!

 

[luiz]

luiz take some historical lesson!!!

I resent that comment.
Now do you have something actually usefull to say or are just trolling?

 

[ThomAnder]

I was just wondering after the first crusade, to whom did the territories in asia minor/turkey belong to?

 

[luiz]

I was just wondering after the first crusade, to whom did the territories in asia minor/turkey belong to?

The ones closer to Europe, like Nicae, were reconquered by the Byzantines. Central/Eastern Turkey became an independent turkish nation, the Sultanate of Rum(Rum means Rome). Iraq and some parts of Iran and Syria became another independent nation under the rule of the seljuk turks, The Caliphate of Baghdad.
Israel and some parts of Lebanon became Crusader States, the most important beign the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

I'll add some historical notes in the description of The Second Crusade.

 

[Duskfighter]

This is a really great idea!
I'm just downloading it now, but before I get into it, I have a question.
Have you, or are you thinking about, including the relics that were 'found' during the crusades?
Relics like the crown of thorns, the holy spear (Which pierced Jesus' side) and others?
I think that if you havn't it is a possibility. Well, that's just my thought.
Good job mate

Dusk

 

[Sarevok]

sounds good! Ill be sure to check it out!

 

[suicide_bomber]

You my friend are a genius! Just d/l it and haven't played, this and the 100 years war!! You are choosing excellent scenarios to make. It certainly sounds excellent!

 

[Zuberbuler]

Luis i make a mistake.I mix up the first crusade with the third.My bad

 

[ThomAnder]

I just have some comments i want to share...

Since it's a scenario, should settlers be allowed to be built? When i played the middle age scenario, russia was split up among all the nations trying to colonize and i'm afraid that the same thing could happen.

About Edessa, i think it was suppose to be somewhere northeast of Antioch rather than east of jerusalem, don't suppose it matters though.

For the Byzantines, i was wondering whether or not they have enough influence in anatolia... i'm pretty sure the AI won't give away Nicrea back like in actual history... Also, i looked at the euratlas map and noticed Trebizond there. Would it be possible to include that since that particular area in the map is empty anyway.

 

[LLXerxes]

Sounds great!
Got any screenies, yet?

 

[mablung]

I agree with ThomAnder, I hate it how the AI goes colony crazy and the damn cities are so unproductive because of corruption.

I also agree with Thom about the Anatolia/Nicea area, the Byzantines need another city on the other side of the Marama (sp?).

Otherwise, a really good scenario.