How do I Crusade?

**_Tristan_** · 11-13-2009, 16:30

You'd take a reputation hit whether or not it came from a Papal order. Best course of actions IMHO is to spend a few coins to counter the hit to your Papal reputation rather than endanger your alliance with your ally, as this would start you down the slope of untrustworthiness, which would make it difficult to regain your ally or add some other ones.

So just ignore the Papal order and offer him some coin, lands or anything to make him happy (not discounting young and virgin girls...j/k)

**Zild** · 11-13-2009, 18:18

Thanks for that. That was actually the plan I was going for, albeit without the bit about keeping the Pope sweet - he likes me enough already!

**Tabuu** · 06-01-2010, 23:00

If I recall, the original question was "How do I crusade?", yes? If so, to have an army join the crusade you must have a general/family member leading the army. If you right-click on their portrait, there will be a button on the bottom of the scroll that reads "Join the crusade." Push this button and your units will turn dark turquoise-like and a white cross will appear on their unit cards. In addition, your recruitment queue will have new units to recruit, ones that are specially designed for the crusade. And finally, your general (on the campaign map) will have a red cross on top of his banner. If you take the targeted city, you will be rewarded with florins and upgrades for 20- 30 units from the pope

**Iberia Auxilia** · 07-07-2010, 09:49

Does the reward for the successful crusade include giving xp. to the units from the homeland and not taking part in the crusades.

**Ethelred Unread** · 07-07-2010, 10:32

No - Just troops that are "on crusade".

**Sebastian Seth** · 07-13-2010, 06:47

With the desertion I do this;

Just take small army with you that you can lose, take what ever route is the fastest, then recruit new army from the islands on the way and right when landing.

With jihads I do this;

Call one when ever you can (even on rebel settlements), have all your generals to join one, recruit all the cheap and good units you can, take the settlement with the army you first moved near it. = A lot of cheap forces.

**Tabuu** · 07-16-2010, 01:08

I also forgot to mention that nations at war with you (excluding Islamic ones) will not attack any of your units or settlements while you are on the crusade. Big plus if you're on the receiving end.

But Venice might be dumb enough to do that so watch out. >.>

Rewards for success: 1. Florins from the Pope.
2. Experience for 20 or so troops. (As Unread said)
3. Not sure but I believe you also get extra troops.

I may be wrong but hey: who isn't?