Hahaha, your comment makes me laugh. When have I mentioned anything in this thread about knights, especially Templars or Hospitallers being "chivalrous" or courteous? If you don't know, even my own nickname is a character, a Templar antagonist in the Ivanhoe novel, cruel, rapist and ruthless. And then again, I never even mentioned bloody chivalry or anything in comparison to samurai, so don't put words in my mouth. All I said was our knights were real, they fought battles, they had trained a lot more than any other soldier, and at their time, there was NOTHING more powerful in the battlefield than a Knight Templar. And if you want to know, all this thing about chivalry only began to appear around the time the Templars were prosecuted, early 14th century.
And after you saying the
sic erat scriptum "Nights Hospitallers became bankers", which is major proof of your ignorance, due to the fact the ones whom became bankers were the Templars. And they ran from the battle? Oh, really? What a childish comment, do you still believe people fought to the death like in films? Even after Total War giving you a little insight and knowledge about how a battle was won, by rout? Everyone routed, not all battles was "Honour, die in the field, Valhallaaaaaa!!". Of course Templars and Hospitallers were less likely to rout, since they were better trained and respected by both Christian and Saracen, it was unlikely they would be executed if captured. But I can point few more examples which demonstrate bravery from the Templars and Hospitallers, can you do the same about your fictional samurai? Battle of Cresson, 130 Knights, including their Grandmasters themselves, and 400 infantrymen stood their ground and fought against the overwhelming forces of Saladin, 7000 men. Only three knights survived, including Sir Gerard de Ridefort. As for Sir Roger de Moulins, Master of the Hospital, he was killed in battle.
"As the
Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, a chronicle of the Third Crusade, records it:
So Saladin assembled armed forces and marched violently on Palestine. He sent the emir of Edessa, Manafaradin (al-Muzaffar), on ahead with 7,000 Turks to ravage the Holy Land. Now, when this Manafaradin advanced into the Tiberias region, he happened to encounter the master of the Temple, Gerard de Ridefort, and the master of the Hospital, Roger des Moulins. In the unexpected battle which followed, he put the former to flight and killed the latter."
You can even read about a certain Sir Knight called Sir Jakelin de Mailly whom fought to the death valiantly, defying odds, he fought alone against an horde until he too fell:
"The Muslims feigned a retreat, a common tactic which should not have fooled Gerard; nevertheless, he ordered a charge, against Roger's advice, and the knights were separated from the foot-soldiers. The Muslims easily repulsed a direct Christian attack, killing both the exhausted knights, and, later, the foot-soldiers. Gerard was wounded, but survived; however, almost all the others were killed. According to the Itinerarium, however, Gerard did not rashly engage the enemy, but was actually caught unaware and was the victim of an attack himself. The Itinerarium also records the exploits of a certain Templar named Jakelin de Mailly, who, after all his companions had been killed, fought singlehandedly against the throng of Muslims until he too fell."
Please, if you don't have any sources to state I shall stop considering anything and everything you say. Now go watch your bloody anime lad, and believe that samurai are super powerful men whom fought with the speed of sound, dodging sword attacks and running in the air, and stop buggering me.
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Originally Posted by click2kill
. So many great mods that's the reason I still play this game I love the new total war games specially Napoleon: Total War but since they don't have so much mods and are harder to mod I don't play them that much.
