Crusades?

[EatYerGreens]

This pic should show both crusade markers at once. The French one has
been static for a few years by this time and you can see how depleted it is.
I'm now up to 1186 and it's STILL floating around.

The thing about exponential decay is that the rate of loss actually slows
down as the quantities in the stack approach zero. There are also plenty of
Piety-9's in there.



The disposition of my forces reflects my expectation of them using Italian
ships to go straight to it by sea. A storm in the Aegean at around this time
stopped me from being able to ship spare troops from Nicea, and
Constantinople. I could still 'shuffle' overland to Serbia and move equivalents
out of there to Sicily but I'd put no archer units in my garrison there (other
than HAs) specifically due to all the Cavalry over the border. This made
things awkward to arrange as I'd have wanted - such as swapping generals
around now that the threat of the French was passed.

Since they were 'stoopid' enough to come over land, via Papal States, I had
a couple of years in which to reconnect my sea lanes and shuffle units as I
pleased.

P.S. The units in the info window are one of the 5 stacks of re-emerged
Sicilians, stuck on Malta with no ships. The highlight was on them at the
time, whilst the mouse pointer hovered on their crusade, to bring up that
banner. I have another screenshot showing them more clearly but it cuts off
the view of the French crusade, so I used this one.