Duels in the Desert

More Battles Using 36 Ancient Battles for Dominion of the Spear

Taking a break from baseball for some more Dominion battles. Now we turn our sights on Crusades.

Summary

Here are the results for the battles. Battle reports below.

• Dorylaeum (1097) - Turks , Crusaders 1
• Hattin (1187) - Crusaders 2, Saladin 1
• Arsuf (1191) - Richard the Lionheart 2, Saladin 1
• Kosovo (1389) - Turks 5, Serbians 1

Battle Reports

Dorylaeum

The Crusaders (red) lose their knights and then spears in the center. This allows the Turkish horse archers to flank and rout the right wing spears.

Hattin

While Saladin's horse archers whittle down the Crusaders, King Guy's knights run roughshod, routing some spears and the Mamluk horse archers. Saladin tries to shoot down the Crusader spears, but they get in grips and rout the remaining horse archers.

Arsuf

Both sides have lost two units. Now, Richard's Hospitalers (red left) face Saladin's Mamluks.

The Hospitalers send the Mamluks packing then slam into the flank of Saladin's archers.

Kosovo

OK, not desert. But still in the Crusader-ish theme.

A disaster for the Serbs early on. They lose their knights.

Then the Janissaries flank the Serb's horse archers, routing them.