Trespassing Crusade / Ambushes

[Zild]

A couple of unrelated questions.

Trespassing:

Can somebody please summarise the effects of trespassing armies (armies entering another faction's lands) for me? Do these effects (or their magnitudes) differ between enemy, neutral and allied factions? Is it a problem if you simply enter an enemy's territory, or do you have to still be there at the end of the turn? Do crusades get away with trespassing or get off more lightly?

I am under the impression that trespassing in neutral or allied territories results in a reputation hit (and possibly chivalry hits for the general and/or faction ruler?) but that nobody cares about trespassing in enemy territoty. I also suspect, from previous experiences, that crusading armies are treated as regular armies in terms of trespassing.

The reason I ask is that I often (as England or Scotland) send crusades to Jerusalem / Antioch via ship around spain. It is somewhat tempting to cut across the Spanish/French border - or even to pick up crusaders throughout the entire mainland - but I am sure my reputation has suffered from doing so in the past.

Ambushes:

Do ambushing armies cover multiple squares on the campaign map (i.e. their square and the eight surrounding squares), or must the enemy pass through the exact same square in order to be able to ambush them? If the latter, this makes ambushing particularly hard once you have built roads, as the enemy will march along your shiny new road rather than through the forest... On that subject, will an ambushing army always attack an enemy that comes into range (but not always surprise them) or is there a chance that they may miss the enemy army entirely?

[Cute Wolf]

AFAIK

Crussading armies will DO Trepassing Orthodox and Muslim's lands, but NOT Catholics.... Actually Crussading armies can't attack Catholics and the Catholics will get an excommunication penalty from the Mighty Pope if they attack Crussading Army.

Well, your reputation hit in Trepassing with the crussading armies comes more likely from trepassing Byzantines, Egypt, Or Turks... so declare war with them first (by blocking some of their port), as marching into enemy territory can't be considered trepassing... well, in the case of Byzantine... just move your force by ships rather than on foot, oh yeah, crossing french, HRE, Milan, Venice, and another catholics land with crussading armies gives you no penalty on reputation.

AFAIK, the ambush works in the 8 squares outside your army's ambushing points..... The Small gap of forest to Milan's road and the little patch of forest outside Toledo is my favourite ambushing points.

[Zild]

Thanks for clarifying that. I have put much of it to use today! That Milanese ambush spot works a charm...