Hey, I've been playing as the Turks (since I managed to conquer the world as the Danes [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] ) as I wanted to try a Muslim faction. I've managed to get rid of Egypt and have taken Trebizond, Anatolia, Georgia and Lesser Armenia from the Byzantines, then I went for a ceasefire to give myself some time to consolidate (was starting to run out of money
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Anyway the camels have been invaluable in neutralising the Byzantine kataphraktoi, and I've purposely held back my own Ghulams until the enemy are routing. I've been using mainly spearmen but am now able to get some Saracen infantry but it's taking a while to replace all the spears obviously. My main attacking infantry are urban militia and Ghazi infantry, both are ok but neither are on a par with even the basic feudal men at arms or vikings I had as the Danes. Do Muslim factions (specifically the Turks) get any decent swordsmen? I'm having a bit of trouble breaking up all those enemy spears without a sword line to wrap around them - the Ghazi are more axemen (although useful against armoured targets) while the urban militia are basically just upgraded peasantry with a polearm. What's going to be the staple of my army without swords?? [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img]