Upcoming siege weapons feature of In the Name of Jerusalem MOD, you can build 3 types of siege weapons: Catapult, Mangonel, Trebuchet, then hire some engineers to use them in siege battle. Beware, the defensive side also have trebuchets, your army will receive quite big loss at the same time. Soon in next version~
Preview:
Part1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP6uJAvSkHY
Part2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFuPKr5p9-s
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Maybe this is common knowledge, but it's fascinating to me. I'm wondering if the destruction of King's Landing was based on the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. During that siege, the Romans, under Emperor Tiberius, sacked the Jewish-held Jerusalem.
What's interesting is that the chaos began from within, not the siege itself, when one of the Romans tossed a burning stick into the Second Temple, which created a fire that quickly spread out of control. My first thought was Drogon's destruction of the gates and the Golden Company from behind.
Josephus, a Jewish Historian, has written, "As the legions charged in, neither persuasion nor threat could check their impetuosity: passion alone was in command. Crowded together around the entrances many were trampled by their friends, many fell among the still hot and smoking ruins of the colonnades and died as miserably as the defeated. As they neared the Sanctuary they pretended not even to hear Caesar's commands [think of Jon trying unsuccessfully to get the Unsullied/Dothraki to stop] and urged the men in front to throw in more firebrands. The partisans were no longer in a position to help; everywhere was slaughter and flight. Most of the victims were peaceful citizens, weak and unarmed, butchered wherever they were caught. Round the Altar the heaps of corpses grew higher and higher, while down the Sanctuary steps poured a river of blood and the bodies of those killed at the top slithered to the bottom."
Nearly all the inhabitants of the city were killed, which Josephus estimated to be approximately about 1.1 million people, mostly Jews (this number has been contradicted, but it reminded me of the end of last season when Jon asks Tyrion how many people live in King's Landing, and Tyrion responds, "a million, give or take."
Josephus further wrote, "Now as soon as the army had no more people to slay or to plunder, because there remained none to be the objects of their fury (for they would not have spared any, had there remained any other work to be done), Caesar gave orders that they should now demolish the entire city and Temple."
Maybe that's giving D&D too much credit, but the comparisons between the two just struck me as interesting.
So I was having difficulty in this scenario. Been playing on moderate, and the AI got a bit aggressive with seige at times and cataphracts.
I decided to restart and my new strategy was to target the hospitallers at the very start. Sent my army straight there, they were very vunerable. Got a castle built next to their TC and crippled them within minutes.
The next half hour I built up my economy. My castle was placed perfectly. It blocked the only entrance into the base. Blue, usually got aggressive but they kept sending villagers to my castle to mine. All their villagers were dying. The trigger where some guard says: launch a counterattack, (which is when blue gets aggressive) never happened. Suddenly it was really easy. They had no army, it was really weird, but made it so easy. Only yellow attacked, but they couldn't get past my castle either.
I am trying to get some perspective into the life of common people during the crusades. I am especially interested in life of the following people:
- common European soldier
- common muslim soldier defending the city
- common people inside the city
I would like to know what kind of equipment did soldiers have, what went through their minds, how did they view the foreigners, did they have any special friendship bonds in the army and were they scared for the lives of their comrades, where were the common people during the siege and what were they doing, what were they eating (soldiers on both sides and common people inside the gates), what did an average European soldier leave behind at home to come to the crusade etc.
As said in the title, I am the most interested in the siege of Jerusalem, but I will be glad to read any answer.
I will appreciate every answer, but I would especially appreciate those that will also point me to some reliable sources where I could find the answers to these questions. Thank you in advance.
PS: English is not my first language, so I apologize for the mistakes.
I am sure it varied from case to case but was there a general condemnation of sackings and plundering in medieval (christian) Europe? How about the Middle East? Was the sack of Jerusalem seen as just because 'heathens' were massacred?
