liberal use of our king in combat duty for the first few turns and abusing his jedi powers is great for the first few turns.

after about 20 turns or so, my king never again serves in an offensive capacity.

jedi princes take over.

princes are usually my best generals and they can be members of a wolf pack sent to help a crusade.

I never use overland crusades and just about always use seaborne assaults aided by regular attack armies.

I like to use fanatics etc. more rather than risking my precious order foot and kngihts in the desert as they suffer.

I instead put those into my regular forces as they are cheap and effective outside of desert.

I always go for all 4 crusader states when I'm catholic and often take Syria as well in addition to just maintaining a stash of crusades ready for launch when the Pope calls for crusade against a faction when all markers can launch simultaneously.

4 well stocked crusades hitting targets in a single turn is crippling to any faction.