Crusades

[Peasant Phill]

[QUOTE=Vlad The Impala]I only started my Turkish campaign recently, and I've only had to deal with one crusade (which doesn't dare to attack Constantinople since I have a huge army guarding it, bwaha)[QUOTE]

Be careful that nobody has a ship in the sea regions around Constantinople. Crusades can use ships of other factions. I've experienced this when defending my Turkish empire (Constantinople to Georgia to Egypt) against a French crusade. I only had forces stationed in the border provinces . The crusade didn't dare to attack my armies in Constantinople and weren't growing so I thought I could sit this one out. Suddenly the Hungarians launched a ship in the Black sea and the crusade invades an empty Trebizond. It took a while to corner the French crusade as it moved every turn.

So have an adequate force behind your frontline to capture them or be sure to have every sea region around your empire under your control

[Csargo]

The Germans sent a crusade Antioch and when it got to Constantinople it stopped right before in Bulgaria I think and I let it stay there and weaken then I invaded Bulgaria and a couple of other Byzantine provinces and killed my first crusade .

Now I'm at war with the Hungarians I'm sure I'll take care of them easily though. On to Europe CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vlad The Impala]

Hehe, that same thing happened to me AGAIN yestrday. A French and a German crusade are sitting on my doorstep in Hungary (One is a bit over 1,600men in size, the other a bit less than a 1,000) but they're both afraid to attack, because they're not doing anything.

@Phill: The seas are all firmly in my grasp, but thanks for the warning anyway!

[rvg]

Hehe, that same thing happened to me AGAIN yestrday. A French and a German crusade are sitting on my doorstep in Hungary (One is a bit over 1,600men in size, the other a bit less than a 1,000) but they're both afraid to attack, because they're not doing anything.

@Phill: The seas are all firmly in my grasp, but thanks for the warning anyway!

That's what I see happening most of the time. They keep sitting in the 89% Zeal Hungary and slowly fading away. I hoped that 89% would be enough for them to swell up and attack, but alas. I evenreduced my troop count in Serbia and Bulgaria, but they were simply too scared of the wrath of my Roman armies. Byz is just too strong of a faction, i guess.