About Attrition

[Secuter]

When going on crusades / jihad, shouldn't the lands of likewise religious groups give you supplies (so that you won't get attrition for walking to the holy lands?).

Also, why don't trade ports give the merchant republics free pass with no attrition. They might just be able to supply the army by ships..

 

[Burned Coffee]

Well, it is quite an investment to feed 10k stacks of soldiers from another country just because they are christian too.

 

[Secuter]

Well, it is quite an investment to feed 10k stacks of soldiers from another country just because they are christian too.

You are right, it just seems to kill of a whole bunch of the attacking armies unless they got ships (where they oddly enough doesn't take attrition).

 

[Rokh]

You are right, it just seems to kill of a whole bunch of the attacking armies unless they got ships (where they oddly enough doesn't take attrition).

Fun fact: there used to be naval attrition in CK1. It was an absolute mess. I suppose they took it out because the AI would be uncapable of dealing with naval attrition (I mean, it already is uncapable of dealing with land attrition, so...).

Fun fact 2: you can mod in naval attrition if you want to. Look inside defines.lua. Although I'm guessing you don't want to, right?

 

[Alcadizzar19]

One of *the* primary causes of friction (other than not returning reconquered lands to Imperial rule) between the Crusaders and the Eastern Romans was supplying the armies while travelling through the empire. Just because you find the army outside your walls ideologically compatible (for the most part) does not feed them or your own people.