War and peace

Scenario B, "Quantum Praedecessores: The Second Crusade". Cristiana: Laura Beltrami Muslim: Alex Isabelle Forty-five years. Almost half a century has passed since the end of the First Crusade, with which, as we have seen in the report of the first scenario , the whole Christian world had reasons to doubt that the reconquest of the holy land was pleasing to the eyes of the Most High. The history of the Crusades, however, is made up of celestial visions, annihilating glories, romantic failures. In short: the soul of Man is not made to give in easily - is this not perhaps one of his qualities? - and, in the case of valiant warriors of high ideals, certainly not at the first misstep. So here is that the first experiment is followed by another: a Second Crusade through which it will be possible to amend the faults and errors of the first one. Muslims prepare an action plan Kingdom of Heaven is generous, because each game is a case by itself: the scenario setup is always historica...

Scenario A, "Deus lo Vult! The First Crusade". Christian: Laura Beltrami Muslim: Alex Isabelle We are at the end of the eleventh century, and Asia Minor has been occupied, in the course of about twenty years, by the Seljuk Turks, who have eroded the borders of the Byzantine Empire to the point of forcing the latter to seek an alliance with the kingdoms of Western Christianity, which unlike it are going through a period of prosperity. Pope Urban II, who was already looking for ideas to orient this new power towards the lands of the heathens, therefore does not miss this opportunity to answer that call, and formulates a solution on a grand scale. The First Crusade is then announced; those who participate will receive a total atonement for their sins. The game is not about the very first contingent of crusaders who arrived in the holy land, that "Crusade of the beggars" led by the visionary Pietro the Hermit, a body of twenty thousand subjects without weapons or discip...