A Casus Belli to create Duke Tier Crusader States in middle east.

[Spirit_mert]

Hello , my aim is to find a way for a count or duke in europe to gain a casus belli on middle-east when a crusade is triggered. For example I wish to conquer Antioch or Edessa or Cyprus as a french noble for myself while there is a greater crusade is happening for jerusalem for kingdom title. I want to declare a smaller crusade casus belli for duchy titles.

I want to re-create the historical duke tier crusader states with this. Right now only way to play as a independent crusader state is selecting them at starting dates. Is there a way for a european lord to get a casus belli to create duchy state on middle-east when a crusade happens ? Or can we make one , is it possible ?

 

[TheDovahkiin97]

you could cheat yourself a claim...

 

[myrt]

I've heard rumours about the HIP team working on more dynamic crusades, but I haven't heard much of it.

 

[Farbolo]

I have heard / read / seen these rumours as well either in the forums or on discord (don't actually remember). This would be fabulous and I hope they come true to some extent.

 

[Toa Kraka]

Or can we make one , is it possible ?

It's definitely possible.

- This implementation still fails to represent the non-Jerusalem conquests of the First Crusade. This discrepancy definitely could be fixed (as far as returning a swathe of Anatolia to the ERE and taking Antioch and Tripoli, at least, though this idea still leaves out Edessa): (1) trace the shortest path of counties from the attacker's capital, through realms of friendly and neutral religions, to the target duchy; (2) on that path, take land with the same rules described in the screenshot presented above to determine who gets the duchies, counties, and baronies (except Step 2h gives the titles, not to the most-participating crusader, but to a random crusader who hasn't already received any land in the crusade), on a duchy-by-duchy basis), but I don't at the moment want to take the time to figure out the details.

The only question is whether anybody is willing to take the time to actually write the code. (I probably will do it eventually, but I'm a pretty lazy person.)