Re: Kingdom of Heaven
Your inaccuracies are themselves inaccurate.
Saladin normally had more troops at his command than the Crusaders did. Atthe Crusader defeat at the Battle of Hatting, for instance, there were 22,000 Crusaders lined up again 30-35,000 Mujahideen.
Europe was not densely populated in the middle ages, plus Muslim population centres were always much closer to Palestine than the Crusader population centres were.
The difference was that the majority of crusader troops were professional soldiers, so though they were smaller in number they were better trained. Saladin’s forces consisted of predominantly Muslim citizenry who volunteered to do their duty of jihad - they were less well trained, but extremely motivated.
Crusader troops also tended to be more heavily armoured than Muslim troops did, but in the hot middle-east conditions this was more of a burden than an advantage. Muslim forces were lighter, faster and more mobile, and used this to great effect to wear down Crusading armies. Saladin used this fact to great effect, to grind down the Crusaders during the Third Crusade, such that by the time they got within sight of Jerusalem, King Richard felt that he was defeated already and turned back - that was without even being engaged in a major battle.
King Richard never set foot in Palestine until several years AFTER Jerusalem fell. He led the Third Crusade, which happened after the film.