Originally Posted by
paleologos
Yeah well, the game does allow the CS to recruit western style heavy troops in the Levant, is that historical?
Would have been more realistic IMO, if such troops were only available as mission rewards and the only recruitable troop types were local levies (of low loyalty and morale) and mercenaries.
(On the other hand Egypt and Mesopotamia provided a near endless supply of jihadists-still do).
And the mod does make CS a single faction with a unified sense of purpose, is that historical?
Was it not the reality of the day that the CS were independent principalities, only forming ad hoc alliances, even -sometimes- with Muslim princes against Christian rivals?
From the above unhistoricities grow the rest.