enableing crusades button in kingdoms: teutonic campaign

[Flying Pig]

Yes, it's an almost perfect replica. I thought the Vangarion Guard was only open to life-commiting vikings?

[absinthia]

there where many that came home quite wealthy, that was what made service in the guard so popular. in sweden there was even made a law that one could not inherit while in greece. probably service in the orthodox emperors guard was not to popular among the then catholic kings of scandinavia. later the guard would even contain a larger amount of anglo-saxons.
of course many settled in the black sea area, and probably stayed in service for a long period.

my intention with moding the teutonic campaign is to try to bring in more of the religious tension of the period. actually i would prefer the map to stretch as far south as in the crusades campaign.