Jerusalemite Forces
Under the leadership of Godfrey of Bouillon, the Defender of Jerusalem, the armies of the crusaders move south to secure the city against the imminent Fatimid invasion from Ascalon. It was a move that risked everything, with defeat meaning the certain destruction of everything they had wrought. They carried the True Cross itself before them, accompanied by the new Latin Patriarch Stephen of Arras. Soon, they would arrive in the vicinity of Ascalon, where captured spies and scouts reported a large Egyptian camp in the shadow of the citadel.