retraining & Crusading

[gregori99]

The land route of a crusade usually only gives you a couple of options, going towards the target, but if you can steer it close to (or through) the Pope's domains, you can pick up a bumper crop of troops, due to the high zeal in those provinces.

Also, if there is no land route to the target, and the sea route is blocked by enemy ships, or you and your allies don't have a chain to the target, the crusade will not be able to move at all.

Btw, the Danes can crusade in XL, possibly other mods

EDIT: Assuming the Danes can't crusade in vanilla/VI. It's so long since I've played anything but mods that I forget...

[Bregil the Bowman]

EDIT: Assuming the Danes can't crusade in vanilla/VI. It's so long since I've played anything but mods that I forget...

Definitely can't, much to my chagrin in current campaign.

Any idea why the Pope sometimes refuses crusades. Playing as Spain a few months back, I had no other crusades, was in a better state of grace than he was, and he turned down my request to batter the Byz. In the end he had to go...

[Tratorix]

Any idea why the Pope sometimes refuses crusades. Playing as Spain a few months back, I had no other crusades, was in a better state of grace than he was, and he turned down my request to batter the Byz. In the end he had to go...

The pope won't let you crusade against any faction he is allied with. He may have had an alliance with the Byzantines.

[Brandy Blue]

Also, if there is no land route to the target, and the sea route is blocked by enemy ships, or you and your allies don't have a chain to the target, the crusade will not be able to move at all.

I've got questions about that.

1: I didn't know you could send armies through a ship chain partly made with allied ships. Is that for crusades only, or can you send regular armies that way too?

2:Also, are there any special rules about traveling by sea when on crusade?

3: I had a Crusader army in Constantinople and was given the chance to move it to Georgia, even though I had no ship in the Black Sea. Neither did my only ally. Byzantium did have a ship there, and my Crusade had permission to travel through Byzantium. I was wondering if that was why I could use Byzantine shipping, or if it was a corrupted file.

[Peasant Phill]

1. For crusaders only

2. You have to follow the shortest route I suppose.

3. You guessed right. you don't have to be at war with that faction to use its navy. If they don't let you through then you are at war with them.