Today while playing as the Alomhads and conquering my way though Egypt with my Alomhad urban militia heavy armies I was crusaded against by the Germans that had been my allies for years. I somehow skipped the message without realizing and when the crusade showed up I had almost nothing to repel it. So when it arrived at Antioch, I attempted to pull an army together and had a ragtag mix of a few half dead units: (going off screenshot as its hard to remember exact numbers
76 Peasants
147 Nubain Spearmen
95 Alomhad Urban Militia (5 valour)
25 Urban Militia (cant remember what they did)
The Germans had about 1600+ men such as armored spearmen, spearmen, archers, mounted sergeants, royal knights and others. when the battles started there wasn’t much i could do besides just charge right at them the Nubians attacked first and killed quite a few order foot and them some mounted sergeants, as they were attacked from both flanks as well as the front the peasants attacked I think jobargy and killed quite a few for peasants before inevitably getting devastated. the Alomhad urban militia however with its 5 valour was insane it massacred the normal spear unit I charged it at and them turned to help the Nubians and started shredding the armoured spearmen. the Nubians after a minute or so routed with only ten men left and the alomhads were alone they were completely surrounded but they didn’t rout and stayed at impertutious morale they finished crushing the armored spearmen and started killing the mounted sergeants and melee archers and anything else around them being surrounded and attacked from all sides all the time. they slowly took casualties while ripping apart the enemies around them and when they got below 20 casualties they finally went to steady morale they kept killing and dying till there were about 8 left then my general died I think and they started routing the few men left killed by the badly bloodied Germans. When they had below 20 men the alomhads were at ten valour. With just this army alone and mostly the AUM I had blunted the German crusade and prevented almost the entirety of what was Egypt’s territory being conquered by the Germans, as I had most no troops there. These men were definitely heroes and the least I could do what make a topic about them.
What’s your most heroic unit that saved you?
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