There is an exploit that can be used as a cheat and makes ironman games challangeless. Game is not adding recruited holy order troops in the total army numbers in ledger/stats and AI is ignoring them on the map. For example if you have an stack of 1000 levy and 3000 HO mercenaries and the AI enemy has 2000 of his own troops they will attack your combined forces because it does not register you having them.
If you want to test it, start a vanilla game, go to year 1100 start as king of Jerusalem, wait one minute to get jihad declared and raise holy orders, put in a cheat for piety if you need it, look at ledger, the number is same as before you had them, if you take mercenaries it will show them in ledger. If you add 500 levy troops to the holy order stack the AI will register only the 500 and attack your stack with much smaller troops than your combined number.
If you want to test it, start a vanilla game, go to year 1100 start as king of Jerusalem, wait one minute to get jihad declared and raise holy orders, put in a cheat for piety if you need it, look at ledger, the number is same as before you had them, if you take mercenaries it will show them in ledger. If you add 500 levy troops to the holy order stack the AI will register only the 500 and attack your stack with much smaller troops than your combined number.
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