Crusades are fun, if confusing.

It appears that the computor can send their crusade by any route & the human can't.

Going east and then south thru catholic regions you can add volunteers-altho at times Hungarians won't join. Why???

Going south & then east the Spanish don't join. You steal money, but what you need are troops.

I understand the Orthodox won't join, but why some catholics?

When crusades come my way I often remove troops from the provinces the Crusaders approach-to stop from losing them.

At times the contradictions in the crusading portion of the MTW has led me to resign the game and even to call talk to my son or daughter. Hmmmm