Today we start a five-player 3rd crusade campaign. I shall be GMing it, but controlling the Seljuks and the Ayyubids. Richard and Philip already distrust each other on account of a total failure of diplomacy during the 17th century campaign of last time.
Wish I had half a dozen packs of TB medievals to round things out.

Heavens - it's over already. Went by the book: Richard took Cyprus, Acre fell as expected, Guy became King of Cyprus, Richard and Philip were both killed in a ruinous defeat at Arsouf...ok, not quite 100% by the book.
Shortest campaign on record.

That went fast!

How well did the rules work?

I bought them a while ago but never got round to playing them as I don't have any 28mm Crusade figures and couldn't be bothered to work out how to use Warmaster bases for DV.

However I'm about 2/3 of the way through rebasing some 10mm WMA Crusader and Saracen figures for SAGA Crescent & Cross but the bases could possibly be used for DV if the rules are good enough. 

In C&C I'm using 9-13 point warbands and two warbands per side, this gives a decent number of figures on the table and the SAGA battleboards and mechanics work very well at this scale and figure density.

The name is an overlap. Home-made rules; when I wrote them I wasn't aware of the commercial set. Happy to send you a copy, if they're any use to you.

Battle of Arsuf; picture shows players more than the game. Left to right. Viljar Sojland - Philip; Me, holding Valentine Hanuman Siegfried Yoshinaka - games master and moral support; Mike Seely - Master of the Temple; and Anutra Bunnag, Master of the Hospital. Richard was taking the pictures and so not in them.

That table looks nice !

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Great looking game FK

QuoteThe name is an overlap. Home-made rules; when I wrote them I wasn't aware of the commercial set. Happy to send you a copy, if they're any use to you.

Thank you for the kind offer, but I'm trying to not use any new rule sets at the moment, I feel that I need to learn and understand the rules I'm using before I flit off and try something new.