Field of Glory II: Medieval - Swords and Scimitars

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The Byzantine Empire at the beginning of the 11th century is in a strong position - they pushed their border to the east from the fragmented Muslim emirates and completely destroyed the Bulgars in the Balkans. Everything changed in 1071, when they suffered a catastrophic defeat by the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert. These nomadic conquerors had recently converted to Islam and quickly established a sultanate that ruled from Afghanistan to Palestine. Following Manzikert, they took almost all of Anatolia from the Byzantines.

When the Byzantine Emperor Alexios Komnenos struggled to stop the Seljuk advance, he turned to the West for mercenaries. This request was seized on by Pope Urban II, who may have seen it as an opportunity to further his own goals. At the Council of Clermont in 1095, he called for a crusade to save the Eastern churches and reclaim the Holy Land from the Muslims.

The timing was fortunate as the mighty Seljuk Empire began to disintegrate, the Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia (modern Asiatic Turkey) seceded from the Great Seljuk Empire in 1077, and the local Syrian atabegs proved in practice to be semi-independent and divided. The First Crusade eventually captured Jerusalem in 1099 and established a number of crusader states in Palestine and Syria. In doing so, they aroused bitter animosity between Muslims, Western Christians, and Byzantines, leading to two centuries of conflict.

The First was followed by several major crusades as the crusader states fought for their existence against a series of resurgent Islamic states: the Fatimids, the Zangids, the Ayyubids, and finally the Mamluks, who in 1291 destroyed the last crusader stronghold in Acre.

Meanwhile, farther east, a much greater threat to Islamic civilization arose. The rapidly expanding Mongols destroyed the Khwarezmian shahdom by 1231, the Christian kingdom of Georgia fell in 1239, and the Seljuks were defeated and forced into vassals in 1243. By 1258, the Assassins of Alamut, and the ruins of the once great Abbasid Caliphate, had also been conquered. Only the Mamluks of Egypt were able to finally put an end to the Mongol advance with their victory at Ain Jalut in 1260.

In the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire remained strong until 1204, when Constantinople fell during the Fourth Crusade. After that, most of the old empire was taken over by the Western Crusaders and the Venetians, who led the whole nefarious enterprise. The Byzantines held out in four fragments: the Trebizond and Nicaean empires and the despotates of Rhodes and Epirus. Eventually, the Empire of Nicaea recaptured Constantinople in 1261, but the Byzantines' power was forever broken and they were now only a minor state.

Key features:

• Another 20 nations and factions covering Southeast Europe and the Middle East from 1040 to 1270 AD. These include Arabs (Syria/Iraq), Armenians (Cilicians), Bulgarians, Byzantines (main empire, as well as Nikaya, Epiros and Trebizond), Crusaders, Cypriots (Kingdom of Lusignan), Dailami, Fatimid Egyptians, Georgians, Ghaznavids, Ghurids , Indians (Rajput, other Hindus, Muslims), Khorezmians, Latin states in Greece, Mamluk Egyptians, Mongols (Ilkhanids), Pechenegs, Seljuk Turks, Serbs and Syrian states. Each of them has its own historically accurate banner.
• 35 more units (11 brand new, 24 new in the Middle Ages) to accurately represent the troops of all new factions.
• An additional 41 army lists, allowing the creation of historically realistic armies for each of the aforementioned factions and their allies on different dates during the period, bringing the total number of medieval army lists to 146. In addition, armies can include contingents of historical allies. This gives about a hundred thousand permutations. You will never run out of new matches to try.
• 8 more historical scenarios covering the key battles of that period on an epic scale. These include Manzikert 1071, Dorylaeum 1097, Ascalon 1099, Sirmium 1167, Arsuf 1191, La Forbie 1244, Homs 1281 and Kili 1299.
• Added 53 more Historical Matches to Quick Battle Mode, bringing the total to 150 that can be played from either side.
• 4 more historically based campaigns covering the main leaders and conflicts of the era: Alexios Komnenos, First Crusade, Manuel Komnenos, Saladin.
• The Sandbox Campaign has been expanded to include all new army rosters, allowing you to lead any nation (and its historical allies) against any other nation (and their allies) - giving you over twenty thousand permutations.
• Time Warp custom battle modules have been expanded to include all new army lists.

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Minimum requirements for pc:
 

• OS: Windows 8 / Windows 10
• Processor: Intel Core i5 2.0 GHz
• Memory: 6 GB
• Graphics: 1GB DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card
• DirectX(R): 9.0c
• Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
• Storage: 5 GB

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