The Moors?

[JMSlayer]

Does anyone still play as the Moors? I used to love them in vanilla, but then I found the awesomeness that is the Egyptians, Mamluk archers, Ghulams, Hashashim and ect, compared to a crappy line-up for the Moors until Christain Guard and Camel Gunners.

Does anyone play as the Moors, and if they do, can they tell me what they enjoy about them?

[aion2006]

GOLD, Slave, Ivoy to the south!
Not just riches but big land.
Large Army .
Not to mention a foot hole in Spain.

You got mix christian and Islamic unit. Which is awesome.

[JMSlayer]

Yeah, but doesn't it have the weakest early roster? I'm sure it's tied with Russia for it, at least.

[Shabby_Ronin]

who cares about early really; i mean its always fun to have new units to play with, but its not hard to beat the ai with moorish units.

it isnt like spain is gonna have full armies of dfk, heavy cav and good archers...they mostly have rabble with a few good units sometimes

i love moors, the desert is a cool place to expand to, its so unlike europe...i wish the 6.0 map was going more south than east, but what can you do.

once you hit high era your golden

i played the irish in my first game in ss, i burned through britian like the plague and most of my guys were barefoot

plus, looking at the custom unit roster they have a mangonel, which none others i'v seen have, but i havnt played them yet in ss...about too

[Inhuman One]

The moors used to have a better roster than egypt, but egypt got more new units than a weak swordsmen unit so became stronger now.

The moors have quite a few crossbow units and the other muslim factions dont have that. This is one of their strenghts. They also have the best militia of the islamic factions.

They got everything needed for a good defence as militia. Spearmen, crossbowmen, halberds and also swordsmen.

[delra]

They are cutting down southern parts of Africa in 6.0, aren't they? No more gamey high trade income regions. :-)

[Gorrrrrn]

apparently Timbuktu has been disappeared.

shame as a west african faction might make for an interesting game.

[delra]

I think Mali (or whoever) would be too far from everything to be fun to play. I had that with Makuria in the another mod. They were very well done but were in the place where playing them was just boring.