improving loyalty with jihad

[A.Saturnus]

Maybe many know that trick but some maybe don`t:

After succession or a civil war your generals` loyalty can be quiet low, but as Muslim you can easily increase the loyalty if you have a lot of jihad markers. Just make jihads to reconquer lost provinces that are lightly guarded (after civil war, you can choose homelands that turned rebel). With every jihad that reaches it`s goal, the loyalty will go up. Just make sure that the jihads are successful because lost jihads weaken the loyalty.

This doesn`t work for Catholic factions cause you can`t have more than one crusade at the same time (although I have a screenshot with 2 Spanish crusades - the AI doesn`t seem to care about the rule) and you can`t crusade catholic rebel provinces.

[einar]

Quote[/b] (A.Saturnus @ Jan. 23 2003,08:37)]With every jihad that reaches it`s goal, the loyalty will go up. Just make sure that the jihads are successful because lost jihads weaken the loyalty.

This doesn`t work for Catholic factions cause you can`t have more than one crusade at the same time (although I have a screenshot with 2 Spanish crusades - the AI doesn`t seem to care about the rule) and you can`t crusade catholic rebel provinces.
But, when you launch a catholic crusade to a muslim or pagan province, if that crusade reaches its goal, increases the loyalty of your catholic generals?

[eat cold steel]

You know sometimes the pope ask for a crusade against a faction? You can start a fresh crusade for free if you have a "cross" right? You can actually have two concurrent crusades, if you have have one already going to (or start a fresh one against) another faction, you can then have another free one at the pope's request. But make sure you start your own one first. The Spanish AI is religious, so it normally have spare "crosses" ready.

[Lehesu]

It's funny to describe large masses of unruly peasants and crusading knights as crosses. Instead of..."Hey, Santiago, how many rampaging hordes of zealous peasantry do you have?" its "How many small, computer generated crosses-on-pedestals do you have?" Not meant as an insult, just a passing thought.

[A.Saturnus]

einar, yes it increases their loyalty, however it works not as well as with Muslims.

eat cold steel, thank you, that explains it.

[eat cold steel]

> Not meant as an insult, just a passing thought.

Heh, I mean "cross" as in an inactive target marker, once it gets going, it becomes a full "crusade." When a crusade or jihad reaches its goal, your leader get a boost in influence, which indirectly make your generals more loyal.

[einar]

Quote[/b] (eat cold steel @ Jan. 23 2003,10:09)]When a crusade or jihad reaches its goal, your leader get a boost in influence, which indirectly make your generals more loyal.
The position and the consideration of your faction is only determined by your influence level?. Or are there other things, like the number of declarations of war on other factions, factions destroyed by you, assassins of your nation discovered, prisoners killed, etc, etc...

Only influence of your king????