The Crusades

If you had the option to go back in time and fight in the Crusades, would you do it?

No

Why not?

I don't want to die.

Yup, but better start as 12 yo son of noble man, so I can at least prepare myself for it. Untrained man will cause troubles for his own comrades.

Only God knows when you die, it can happen any day.

Try not to drown this time.

True.

If I could take 10,000 M-16s with me and about 50 million rounds of ammo.

You would actually end up killing everyone around you because we're carrying super diseases compared to what they're used to back then.

Our immune system is perfect but their will die if you bring today's common cold back to them

Oh shit, you're right.

You can teach them how to make hand grenades and Molotov cocktails. Not so hard, yet extremely effective, especially against mounted enemies. I don't even talk about cannons, this will be devastating.

>traveling across the Mediterranean, assaulting forts and dying of disease just so the Caliphates can reconquest everything in 10 years

Well just by you being there, you would change history in some way.

This. I would do the training, and then slaughter mudslimes by the thousands.

Friendly reminder.
You kuffar are so shit not even God likes you.

...

At least my god isn't a smelly brown god.

Jesus was a Semite, that nigga was brown.

Also
>Muhammad (PBUH)
>God

Only if I could advise the various leaders with my hindsight in order to avoid grave mistakes that led to the defeat of several Crusades.

This. For instance, informing Richard the Lionheart that Saladin would die of illness shortly after Richard left the Holy Land. If he had stayed a few monthes longer we could have reclaimed Jerusalem in the Third Crusade.

Or avoid attacking Damascus in the asinine Second Crusade.

Or promote more unity between the Byzantines and Latins. (Avoid the Fourth Crusade all together.)

implying that we would need to go back in time

Why go back when another one is bound to occur in a few years?

We conquered the entire muslim world and create artificial countries out of it, we spread the gospel in the entire world and we became the more advanced civilization who ever existed.

This beta complaint is meaningless.

You'd also have to make it so Philip II didn't plot to take Richard's lands whilst he was crusading. That way, he wouldn't have had to return.

Tell Richard not to start marching to Jerusalem and then turn back, destroying Crusader morale.

Advise Louis IX to avoid Al Mansurah.

Advise Joscelin not to leave Edessa, avoiding the Fall of Edessa in the first place.

There's a lot more.

I wouldn't fight in the Crusades. That would suck.

But fighting in the Reconquista would have been fun as hell probably.

of course