Quote Originally Posted by Innocentius
It is as if a crusade had been launched from Jerusalem (once in catholic hands, that is).
Well, such a thing is encouraged on the part of the game, or how else does one explain the +1v bonus for...templars? hospitallers? don't remember exactly... anyway, the bonus for one unbuildable crusader knight type in Palestine (in vanilla)? They appear solely in crusades, so you'll probably have to launch one from there to get it.

So....why not launch a crusade FROM the Baltics? IIRC Prussia has a bonus for Teutonic Knights which are also unbuildable in vanilla.

Quote Originally Posted by King Kurt
From a game point of view, I am interested in what would happen to a Crusade which travels across the map - how big could it get with just the troops attracted to it?
Quite big, although there seems to be a kind of 'bloat' effect too, meaning that there's a certain point when they don't get bigger. At least that's my vague impression, the only time I did such a thing was when I sent a crusade from Aragon to conquer Prussia from the heathens, but especially to put a check on the rampant Russian expansion. By the time it reached Brandenburg, the last 50+%-zeal province, it had already remained stagnant for two or three provinces and was at around ~3000 men IIRC.

This impression is much stronger in MedMod where crusades start out with 700-1000 men. Since almost all my governors get the 'fanatic' line of traits when I'm catholic, zeal rates are usually floating at 90-100% throughout Early, so crusades gather an awesome amount of men in an impressively short span of time. But they, too, don't grow beyond around 3000 men. In my experience at least....any other observations?