Teleporting Crursade

[macsen rufus]

Hi Timoteob,

I'll start with the easier question:

how did that crusade teleport to the other side of the Med?

The likeliest explanation is that they used ships belonging to their allies. The ability to use allies' shipping is exclusive to crusades (and probably jihads as well, but I'm not 100% on that). A normal army can only move via that faction's own ships. So if you have a save game from that turn, take a look at the seas to see if any of Spain's allies are out there with ships. This is an ability you can use as a player as well - but even if you have an ally's shipping available, the enemy's ships can still blockade the path even if they are not at war with your ally (which is to say they block your army rather than the ships themselves...)

So how did their crusade stay in my territory after retreating

Now that one is harder to explain, and I'm not sure I can

USUALLY a Crusade that retreats or calls off an attack will retreat to the nearest friendly territory, either controlled by its own faction or a faction that has already granted access for the Crusade to pass through their territory. If you were a) their enemy, and b) besieging the castle in Morocco, I can't think of a mechanism for that crusade to stay there after it cancelled its attack. I assume that there was still other Spanish territory left to go to? And I also wonder what faction you are playing - it might be pertinent whether you're an excommunicated catholic vs a muslim or orthodox one. So if you could flesh out some more details of the wider 'geopolitics' of your war with Spain, we might gain some insight.

Of course, it could just be the ing AI cheating.