Crusade

[caravel]

Well, the problem - perhaps rather the challenge - with Constantinople is the fact that your next king is crowned in the province with the highest number of buildings. Typically that will be Con. and your young king will be cut off from your homelands. And if you don't have ships providing a connection you'll recieve "king-is-out-of-sight" penalties to your subject's loyalty.

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One of my most epic campaigns was based on such a Scenario. It was as the English/Early/Hard Vanilla MTW. I had crusaded to Antioch and on the way there got caught up in a war with the Byzantine. The result was an English occupation of Asia Minor taking the place of the Byzantine and Turks, wiping both out, and maintaining an uneasy border with the Hungarians in the west and Egyptians in to the south east. Then disaster struck when the King died and his heir succeeded to the throne in Constantinople. This cut off the homelands causing massive revolts. The French took advantage and to cut a long story short the homelands were lost. The campaign proceeded from there with my displaced English in Anatolia fighting off the Golden Horde with Billmen and Longbowmen. I don't recall if I ever regained the homelands or not, but I doubt the English were worried as they seemed to be rather enjoying holidaying in Turkey.