Quote Originally Posted by RickooClan
And the running cost of the crusade suddenly kick in and sometimes it will eat up all of your balance in one go!!!
That's something you seriously cannot blame on anyone but yourself. While you are on a crusade, you have to keep in my that there will be a time when the free troops start costing money again, and prepare for that time. The situation is the same whether you take the target or not, neither antioch or any of the cities there will be able to pay for the crusaders.