Historical Overview Section
This list includes options for The People's Crusade - the beginning phase of the First Crusade whose objective was to retake the Holy Land, and Jerusalem in particular, from Islamic occupation. The crusade lasted roughly six months from April to October 1096 and was the first, largest, and best documented of the popular crusades. It is distinguished from the "Princes' Crusade", which was much better organized, better armed, and better funded. It is also known as the Peasants' Crusade, Paupers' Crusade or the Popular Crusade as it was not part of the official church-organized expeditions that came later. Led primarily by Peter the Hermit with forces of Walter Sans Avoir, the untrained peasant army was destroyed by the forces of the Seljuk Turks under Kilij Arslan at the Battle of Civetot in northwestern Anatolia.
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Peoples Crusade Alicante 2022
Competent
6 Pilgrims Levy Impetuous ------
4 Fanatic Pilgrims Medium Swordsmen Impetuous ------
1 Knights Medium Knight Impetuous Elite
1 Knights Medium Knight Impetuous ------
2 Light Infantry Javelin Light Infantry Javelin ----
2 Slingers Light Infantry Sling ----
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Competent
6 Pilgrims Levy Impetuous ------
1 Knights Medium Knight Impetuous Elite
1 Knights Medium Knight Impetuous ------
1 Light Infantry Javelin Light Infantry Javelin ----
2 Slingers Light Infantry Sling ----
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Ordinary Included
4 Pilgrims Levy Impetuous
3 Light Infantry Javelin Light Infantry Javelin
4 Fanatic Pilgrims Medium Swordsmen Impetuous
The logic - if you can call it that - of taking this army to Alicante in 2022 was a combination of a lack of practice with anything else, a desire to give as many of my lockdown painting projects an outing as possible, and also an attempt to avoid getting sucked into being "too competitive" so I could enjoy this first overseas trip on it's own merits without having to think about actually trying to do well.
With my only pre-tournament practice game seeing The Peoples Crusade running down a rather shell-shocked Feudal Spanish army in very short order, I did however think there may be something of merit in the list - and in some ways I was also a little worried it could be a points-system-breaker, with the 38-unit unit count making it unbeatable (or at least unbreakable) within the usual game time limit. Or it could just be utterly useless.
In reality, none of those outcomes came to pass, and the army was both interesting to play with, challenging to play against and yet was also clearly eminently beatable - over the 5 games and the 2-2-1 record it conspired to lose an astonishing 173 break points, almost 35 per game meaning the average result it achieved still put it within 3 hit points of breaking!
So, perhaps surprisingly, this potentially game-breaking army list turned out to be one that underlined and renewed my belief in the robustness of the ADL mechanics, points system and game balance - and its one I'd certainly have no hesitation about using again, even as part of a more serious attempt to do well. The biggest failing was not one of the list, but of my own poor utilization of the Knights in some games - which I tried to remedy in the final two games, with extremely mixed results! Fix that conundrum and it could end up being an army that could do pretty well - but always at a huge cost in losses!
200 Points
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