Gunther of Eichstadt rises and reads a message from Otto von Kassel:

Chancellor Leopold has expressed full support for the Crusade and for his brother Kaiser Henry. Yet I would ask why the Chancellor is stripping troops away from the Crusade to enlarge his own army?

Kaiser Henry's army 1170:

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Kaiser Henry's army 1172:

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Chancellor Leopold's army 1172:

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The Chancellor has transferred 120 Teutonic Knights from the Crusade to his assault on Budapest, just as we are leaving the Reich. This has severely weakened the Kaiser's army at our moment of need! Do you think the Hungarians will allow us to march past Sofia without a fight?

I demand an explanation and the return of those knights!

Duke von Kassel