A first for Saladin was a win-less tournament, but the final score of nine points bested his previous record. It was obvious from this experience that the lance and bow-armed, trained Saracen HC is a dangerous if brittle opponent. There may be little or no reason to employ neither elite nor FMC mamluks beyond required minimums. It may be recalled from his Historicon 2000 experience, the sultan repeatedly failed to use his mamluks to advantage.

For Fall-In 2000, they were left on the shelf in favor of larger numbers of Sudanese archers and Ghazis. The Sudanese are a mixed blessing, providing excellent screening capability, but forever vulnerable to overrun by the knights who habituate MW battlefields. The Ghazis were always poorly deployed, mostly left to their own devices (out of harms way) while the decisive cavalry battles raged.

When next the Sultan takes the field - his army has been resting for many months -- one should expect more aggressive use of the Turkomans, who failed to contribute much of anything to the battles fought here. Since Fall-In 2000, Saladin's spies have observed the aggressive use of bow-armed light cavalry by the rising Polish hetman, Jarosz the impaler. The Sultan has learned much that will come into play at Cold Wars 2002.

More Saladin's Fall (-In)

Introduction
The Duke of Eldridge and the Perfect (Norman) Storm
A Thousand Points of Pikes: Swiss Cheese too Tough to Cut
Fire and Flee: Sometimes It doesn't Always Work
Post-Mortem