Despite being built up as a ruthless and devious opponent in the previous mission, in this one he simply attacks your base all on his own and most likely just dies to your archers while trying to hack down your palisade wall. He returns in the third mission, The Horns of Hattin. In the Saladin campaign, Reynald de Chatillon first appears as the antagonist in the second mission, Lord of Arabia, which is a rather difficult one.
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Thankfully, Definitive Edition updated this scenario so that Hungarians now play as the Magyars and train fully upgraded Paladins as well as Mongol-esque Magyar Huszars. And the final nail is that you have already fought and beaten Teutonic defenses in the previous scenario based on the Battle of Liegnitz, so the novelty (for new players, at least) is diminished. The greatest challenge is instead to get pass the Teutonic walls and castles, but Subotai's arrival with a large number of Saboteurs neutralizes it. The cutscene hypes Hungarian horses for being related to the Mongols's, but this is moot because the Teutons don't have great cavalry, despite being allowed to train Paladins. The last scenario is a 1 vs 1 against Hungary, but the Hungarians are depicted as Teutons. There is a shade of this in the Genghis Khan campaign.No longer the case in Definitive Edition, where Jerusalem would endlessly spawn military units and monks to protect their base. In the Barbarossa campaign's last scenario, "The Emperor Sleeping", after fighting your way through Damascus and the Saracens' camp, all spawning powerful units at will, you end up in a fortified but soldierless Jerusalem.There are on and off arguments in the forums and wikis about what the Tatars, Cumans, and Turks exactly are, and should be.This is related to Malaysia being Indonesia's traditional rival. Indonesians don't like that the Malay civilization (mostly inspired by the Srivijaya and Majapahit empires) is called that, and are similarly unfazed by the claim that the civilization was named after the Malay archipelago and not the Malay people.The Chinese were eventually given the Block Printing technology in a 2020 update. However, the game itself is still popular within the Chinese playerbase, and many Chinese players find this historical inaccuracy in their civilization tech tree to be acceptable from a gameplay perspective due to how strong their civilization is gameplay wise. Also zig-zagged with the Chinese playerbase, some Chinese players are uncomfortable that their civilization in-game is denied Hand Cannoneers, Bombard Cannons and Block Printing, despite being rather well known for inventing all three of these things in real life.
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In the Georgians' case, they could've been represented by a Central European civilization such as the Goths or Huns, as the Central European Monastery is based on a Georgian cathedral. Alternatively, they could have used one of the "Eastern European" civilizations like Slavs or Magyars to represent them since medieval Armenian and Georgian architecture strongly resemble Eastern European architecture in real life.