Crusade Recruitment: Before or After Papal Support?

**bamff** · 02-01-2008, 05:53

Glad to be of assistance. I wish you luck on your holy quest!

**ArtistofWarfare** · 02-03-2008, 06:39

Originally Posted by bamff

Glad to be of assistance. I wish you luck on your holy quest!

Well, considering what's gone on in my current campaign...I doubt we'll be worrying about any holy crusade endorsed by the Pope.

Perhaps a Holy Crusade of my own against him in a few decades though.

**Tony Furze** · 02-06-2008, 07:17

Related issue: when you place your Crusade marker in a target province, will it then go "by itself" or do you have to move it there?

I ve always done the latter, because it never seems to move. The manual hints it can go by itself.

Thanks.

**bamff** · 02-06-2008, 08:10

I believe that you have to move it yourself, with the only interest/"assistance" offered by the game being to determine your possible path/s to the destination.

I have never seen my crusade move off of its own accord.

The only exception to this is in a situation where you lose a battle in the target province. In this situation, your Crusade gets sent back to the last friendly province IIRC.

**Tony Furze** · 02-06-2008, 16:08

Here s the manual (bearing in mind its for the original non VI version):

"Once the Crusade has permission, drop it directly on the target province again (in which case it will find its own route) "

I think the follow the glowing provinces (a la Michael Jacksons "Billie Jean") might be a VI innovation, because it then says:

"... or move it towards the target province-by-province taking any route you like."

**Martok** · 02-06-2008, 19:04

Well I just looked in my manual too, and you're quite correct Tony.

Guess we'll have to chalk it up to the manual's author being misinformed when s/he wrote it?

**bamff** · 02-07-2008, 00:11

Well there you go! I am glad that I never read the manual thoroughly enough to see that - it would have caused me plenty of frustration!

Originally Posted by Tony Furze

I think the follow the glowing provinces (a la Michael Jacksons "Billie Jean") might be a VI innovation

Oh dear - Crusades will never be the same for me - mental images of crusaders marching along in pants just too short to get to their socks, wearing one gauntlet, as their plastic faces slowly melt beneath the desert sun.....