Jihads are way better than crusades. They cost less, you can spam them out, and you get good troops. If you have too many its a bit of an exploit in my book, but its fun to do once.
Crusades do have the fun of sending them wandering through other lands wondering if they will ever get where they are going. But they hoover up rubbbish, lose any good troops they may start with, and in the end you have to send a real army to help them conquer the target province anyway.
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