crusades

[peacedude]

Im currently playing a campaign with Aragorn/early/normal/GA
I launched a crusade to Antioch and along witht he crusaders i sent a regular army anyway the crusade was succesful and when the next time for counting points came up i didnt get the 3 points(or any points for that matter) the GA task list said i would if i did this.
Does the fact that i sent regular soldiers to help out negate the crusade or sumtin or is it just a bug i have
thnx for any help.

[ichi]

I've never sent an army along with a Crusade - I usually take units and toss them into the Crusade stack.

If the non-Crusade army stack was led by a Gen with more stars than the Crusade Gen, or if the Crusade stack was smaller, maybe the comp gave the province to the nons.

I know that when I've taken a province with a regular army while I had a Crusade enroute, that the Crusade disbanded and I got a message.

Maybe I'll have to test this . . . .


ichi

[Duke of Gloucester]

I often send extra troops with a crusade, but I make sure that the most effective general is part of the crusade. I don't think I have ever missed out on the GA points. Did you get the "Your brave crusaders ... " message?

[peacedude]

Ya i got the brave crusaders message. i sent El Cid as the non crusader general (he is 7 stars when attacking) whereas the crusader general had only 1 or 2 stars so thats probly what the problem was i guess
thnx for the help

[Mablung]

Generally only get the GA points at the end date IIRC (for crusades). Personally I use ships to transport a crusade so I stack all troops in the crusade (had one of over 10000 men as the HRE).
What year is it now?

[Duke of Gloucester]

No, you get the points for crusades as you complete them (at least you do playing English Early which is the only GA campaign I have done)

[ajaxfetish]

My experience has been to get the points when the crusade succeeds, but then lose them if I don't hold onto the territory until 1204.