Talk:Barbarossa's March/@comment-38338366-20190211065554

If you are patient, you can defeat the entire Saracen navy with your monks before crossing the sea. Take 5 paladins and your 3 monks and start patrolling the coast - when enemy ships are in the monks range, start converting them - your monks can convert together for faster conversion and only 1 of them need to rest afterward.

If the galleons target your monks, have your paladins run back and forth in front of your monks to block the shots. Go to Gallipoli and get the transports - use them to find the throwing axemen near the south west corner of the map. Throwing axemen are great at dealing with ships that get too close to the shore. Be careful of the demolition ships that come close to the shore - if any units are caught in the explosion when it is being destroyed, it deals a lot of damage.

With this strategy, I gradually sunk the entire Saracen fleet and they resigned (I also destroyed their starting army, castle and docks).

You don't need the Constantinople navy if you do this.

(I tested this method on standard difficulty - frequently saving helps in case the ships take out our monks)