Yeah! The Crusades! Hoo-Ha! Two months in the planning! Night after night of boiling 12 pages of rules down to a single simple plan! Picking a night of holiday so as to accomodate as many players as possible! Hand crafting hundreds of individual game pieces! Sending out not one but two mailers to possible players! Many, many phone calls! Providing snacks, drinks and hot delivered food at your's truly's expense! Blowing up the game map by half again as big to create a play surface non pareil! Copying individual charts! Inviting up to 11 to play! And how did it go? Well ...we could have handled 9 out of the 11 but ...no sweat as we only got 4. The minimum number needed to play. Let's look at some of the reasons for the low turn out, hmmm?
Number one: Romantic trysting! What can I say? Love, love, love! Warms the cuckolds of the heart! Can't get enough of the cuddlin'!
Number two: Work! This is totally understandable as no one wants to trade workin' a Friday or Saturday night for a Monday night off!
Number three: Sickness! OK, I'd really rather not have anyone deserting loved ones and spreading possible plague in the process. Why his pal faked is ...well ...his pal's choice.
Number four:Snow!Yup! There was lot's of snow and getting physically stuck is ... getting physically stuck!
Number five: "Meh!" Disinterest.Fine. Get some rest!
Number six: no response. The wall. Blankness. Zero. Null. Zippety-doo-dah!This is what they missed!!! Just look at Jerusalem!
Zowie! Flames Hot oil! Chaos! Men croaking each other in ways both fantastic and surreal! Anyway this is the picture I imagined would take place as the players faced off around Jerusalem. Enough to make any gamer giddy with excitement, isn't it? OOH! The thrills! Can't wait to see the big siege take place. Read part 2 of this for a blow by blow of the epic struggle for the holy prize. Hot Zing!
Ferocious land combat! Check this! Knights and Saracens gripped in the heat of deadly combat. Steel slashing and piercing sinew and flesh. Daggers! Arrows! Scimitars! Tooth gritting death in the push and pull of mass locked armies! King hell and Judas Priest!!! GAAAAARRR!!
Sea battles? Oh Yes, please YES!!! If only the hot air balloon had been thought up there would have been fightin' in all dimensions! Sock-dolager indeedy! Can't wait for this! Ramming speed!!!!
And I, as the Mosul Turkish player, could see that this game would require above all brains! Yes! A cunning and devious plan would be needed to thwart the might of christendom from descending for the big land grab. I felt up to the task!
My first bit if fox work? Go where the enemy is not and make tactical retreats where demanded! This will work! He who fights and runs away my live etc. but how about he who just runs and doesn't fight until he picks the right time and place, eh? That way all the strength is saved for the big battle that matters, right? Yeah! Let's see how that worked out shall we? OOH! What a sly one we have in my Turkish command! Check out part two of the Crusades and see how it all went! Too Cool, yew betchah!!!
Ferocious land combat! Check this! Knights and Saracens gripped in the heat of deadly combat. Steel slashing and piercing sinew and flesh. Daggers! Arrows! Scimitars! Tooth gritting death in the push and pull of mass locked armies! King hell and Judas Priest!!! GAAAAARRR!!
Sea battles? Oh Yes, please YES!!! If only the hot air balloon had been thought up there would have been fightin' in all dimensions! Sock-dolager indeedy! Can't wait for this! Ramming speed!!!!
And I, as the Mosul Turkish player, could see that this game would require above all brains! Yes! A cunning and devious plan would be needed to thwart the might of christendom from descending for the big land grab. I felt up to the task!My first bit if fox work? Go where the enemy is not and make tactical retreats where demanded! This will work! He who fights and runs away my live etc. but how about he who just runs and doesn't fight until he picks the right time and place, eh? That way all the strength is saved for the big battle that matters, right? Yeah! Let's see how that worked out shall we? OOH! What a sly one we have in my Turkish command! Check out part two of the Crusades and see how it all went! Too Cool, yew betchah!!!
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