I'll have to try finding some of the Crusaders. The Italians just whipped a 700 man army of mine with 40 Knights Hospitaller.
I'm playing as the Spanish and have had a succesful Crusade but I can't build Knights of Santiago and I have all the buildings in place. What do I have to do to build them?
What happens to all the troops in a Crusade army after it takes its objective? I had 2700 troops in my stack heading for Golden Horde controlled Kiev when the Novgorodians (GH Allies) blocked it with 3200 of theirs. I spanked them badly, losing about 500 men from trash units that I used as fodder, but only ended up with 700 left after the battle, what I had remaining on the battlefield. I hadn't called all the reserves possible because I was chasing them and couldn't be bothered. I had purposely not used some of the really good units so that I would have a good army to take the final Byzantine province the turn after that. Instead I got left with a strange mix of units many of which I can't repair or replace and not all are any good.