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I pointed this out at another place, but in the event the Christians do take Egypt or the Delta (so everything up to Cairo, or not including Cairo?) it's possible their manpower needs combined with Egyptian wealth, might lead them to hire Makurian mercenaries. Coptic mercenaries policing Coptic...

This was a manpower issue. It's entirely possible that had they the manpower to settle those regions, they would have done so.

What about stuff like the Beaver Wars? They fought and either displaced or destroyed other tribes to take their territories for economic reasons, while absorbing parts of the conquered populations. It's not a perfect match, but small scale-resource / territorial wars also seemed to be beginning...

I don't know about the Cherokee, but from what I've read in 1491 and elsewhere the Iroquois really would do that if they thought they could get away with it and very well might have reached Ohio absent the disease annihilation.

Hmm, maybe he should take a crack at the Hafsids of Tunisia instead.

Chapter 1.1: False Dawn For Abd ar-Rahman, Al-Andalus was a food to a hungry man, sleep to a tired traveler, water to a man in the desert. Shown to a bed, he threw himself down and slept for an entire day. When he awoke he declared it was time to turn aside the wind of misfortune and began his...

Sure, except Bavaria is part of Bohemia and Croatia/Bosnia isn't. Oh also, Krum founded a powerful Byzantine imperial dynasty. ;)

In my TL the answer was "Byzantinized-Bulgars and Fracoized-Slavs" since Bohemia ended up ruling the western half, and Byzantium (having absorbed the Bulgars) ruled the eastern.

Skilled or charismatic leaders also tend to attract better subordinates. There are exceptions. If the army is too big or the field too small for everyone to fight at once, or if the auxiliary units flee but the quality troops don't for instance. Still, having the winning side suffer a +50%...

You have to remember, as a soldier you are never going to know what's happening except in your little area. If people around you are doing badly, you're going to run to save your skin. People see you running and they run and soon everyone is fleeing. Battle over. Muslim generals liked to set...

Unlikely a battle would last three days. Judging by your casualty numbers there, it's shocking neither army broke apart.

Still can't type much. Good TL. On land: AFAIK prior to 900s even Asturian counts served at the king's pleasure without hereditary rights but w/full fiscal and military power. Too early for full blown feudalism, here "rights assignment" will probably be what's implemented. I am always quietly...

When I saw this thread, I thought it would be about the Battle of Bornhöved. Whoops.

^I don't entirely agree, but you made your position clear. One thing also to add, while people often had very different reference points in various eras in other ways they think and react very much like us. Studying those aspects of history really drives home the divide between environment...

I think you might have better luck putting women in roles less important for strength but still important for military purposes. Clerks/secretaries come to mind. Of course you're going to need to do some impressive state building to be able to create an army that requires a lot of...

I would think scouting roles might be available.

Fairly odd for a battle to last so long when it's not a siege. It's possible when you have large forces on either side or cannot put all troops on the field at once. When fighting hand to hand, exhaustion and morale are going to lead to winners decided relatively fast. If battles last longer...

Hmm can you PM me any sources for the drought conditions? I'm always looking for more information on the Western Med.

Interesting, but why would the African emirs submit? If it's a "force" thing then that's pretty tenuous. Good start so far. Looking forward to how the Normans overcome future challengers.

As far as I know, cross-religious obligations like that were governed by self interest most of the time.