How to end a Crusade called on me?

[Flavius Gonzo]

Magnum, just saw your post. I wonder what the deal is with my campaign vs. yours -- the crusader stacks are not attacking Constantipole in mine, whereas they seem to be in yours. What gives? Do you have a full stack in Constantinople? Maybe my problem is it's too strongly garrisonned?

[magnum]

Full stack. No problem sallying forth and destroying the crusading army. They just tend to run for it before I can catch the general. So far no luck with passive AI or I could simply walk out the side gate, sneak up behind them, and nail their general with a few well placed arrows into the back. Oh well, they'll die someday and until then they're good exp.

[Merciless_Doge]

I'm reading a great book called the "History of Venice" and what you all are describing seems to be fairly accurately gauged against the Fourth Crusade. The Venetian navy was paid (though not in full) to provide naval transport and troops for a sack of Constantinople. Upon success, Venice planted pedosa around the outskirts of the city and also held something around 1/3 of the city's quarters for their own. The sack of Constantinople sents ripples throughout the empire but would eventually cause more problems for western powers then they had hoped.

And, yes, I am playing as Venice in my campaign. :)

[Merciless_Doge]

I should mention that Constantinople was not the original destination for this Crusade; rather the Venetian doge at the time rallied the Crusading troops against Byzantium for profit in a rather interesting series of political moves and sequence of events.

[Blackboots]

Flavius: I'm not being sarcastic, honest; but I just have to ask: why don't you just fight the crusade stacks and end the situation on the battlefield? If you have three stacks on your western front, I presume you are saying they are near the straits. Let the crusaders cross into Asia Minor and massacre them one at a time. It should be fairly easy with that many troops at hand.

[katank]

Whacking the crusader generals is probably the easiest way to end the crusade. Taking out the Pope makes the Catholic faction no longer excommunicated and hence no longer a valid crusade target but likely wouldn't do much for a Muslim faction.

[knoddy]

as katank says killing the pope will not end the crusade, the only way this would work would be if u were a catholic faction that had been excomuted and u get reconciled by the new pope and hence there is no reason for the crusade to continue.

SO how do u end a crusade. easy, killl all the generals that joined it, facitons have 10 turns after a crusade is called to join it, after that no more armies can join the crusade, so if u kill off the generals in charge of the crusading armies then the armies will disban and the crusade will fail. u can do this in either battles or with assasins. u must kill every crusading armies general. thats all

Cheers Knoddy