Talk:Kurikilan Crusade

Kurikilan Crusade
Part of Protestant Wars
Date 1544-1548 Location Fhainnlannachaeran Result Discontinuation of the Askarata Vicariate, dissolution of the Protestant Church in western Fhainnlannachaeran, destruction of the city of Kurikila
Belligerents
Fhainnlannachaeran	Vicariate of Askarata, Gearann Fìor Church
Commanders and leaders
Rih Rhys I General noname General noname	Lord Protector of the True Faith noname Vicar noname
Units involved
Royal Army of the Fhainn Throneswatch House Guard Minor Feudal Armies	Vicarial Army of Askarata Minor Feudal Armies
Strength
Royal Army: 38,050 House Guards: 4,000 Allied Feudal Levies: ~23,000	Vicarial Levies: 12,503 Allied Feudal Levies: ~20,000 Protestant Militias: ~10,000
Casualties and losses
Royal Army: ~3900 House Guards: 483 Allied Feudal Levies: ~2000	Vicarial Levies: ~6000 Allied Feudal Levies: ~5,500 Protestant Militias: ~4,500 Civilians: ~30,000

Background

- Vicar of the region refused to pay taxes to a Catholic monarch and claimed the recently ousted Barh-Màrtainns were the legitimate rulers of Fhainnaeran

(Barh-Màrtainns later come back in the Sutharine Succession Crisis)

Factors in the Outcome

- Royal Army had contemporarily modern guns, cannon, and dedicated engineering and shock/cavalry units with decent command and control for the period

- Vicarial troops were roughly able to fight back on equal terms but feudal troops were hot garbage and militias got in the way with constant accusations of heresy and the Lord Protector trying to summon an angel to wipe out the Catholic forces instead of leading; Kurikila was also not a strategic city given its distance from major land borders with foreign nations and as a result had outdated defenses with numerous gaps. Protestant forces also had a serious lack of cannon, and the Vicar alienated a large portion of his vassals, some of which got his land after the fact

Aftershocks and Modern Impact

- Kurikila is a minor city and never quite recovered

- Effectively killed Protestantism as a major faith group in the upper class in southern Fhainnaeran; eventually Protestantism was largely relegated to a very minor part of the culture save for in Lyukquar which nobody cared about because they paid their taxes, were far from the central gov't, and did the appropriate ass-kissing

- created a refugee crisis of Fhainn Protestants