1212: Las Navas de Tolosa

After the defeat of Alarcos in 1195, the Castilian kingdom lost control over the Guadiana and Tagus valleys, even endangering the city of Toledo before the Almohad advance. After years of instability, Alfonso VIII finally reorganized his army and planned his revenge, getting the Pope to declare his long-awaited confrontation with the Muslims a crusade. Finally, in 1212, the Christian troops from Castile, Aragon and Navarre, supported by the military orders and numerous knights from other kingdoms, faced off in a pitched battle against an Almohad force far superior in number to theirs in what would be known as the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. Today you can put yourself in the shoes of those seasoned combatants and rewrite their history.