Crusader for What?
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I understand some stuff, but this...
The pope has it in with silk road traders. It's corporate conspiracy
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Crusades/Jihads/Great Holy Wars have long since been broken in terms of AI targeting, but apparently this isn't a priority for fixing.
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Odd.
I've seen the Pope call for weird crusades, but they are usually the product of someone asking the Pope to do so (older patches).
I'm guessing Khiva and the surrounding states aren't Catholic?
I've seen the Pope call for weird crusades, but they are usually the product of someone asking the Pope to do so (older patches).
I'm guessing Khiva and the surrounding states aren't Catholic?
Those aren't Catholic CoA duchy/kingdom markers down there, so I'm going to say no. One of the northern kingdoms looks Christian (and non-Nomad no less) but that still shouldn't result in this stupidity.
It really shouldn't, but there are situations where Catholic rulers will ask the Pope to call a crusade against a specific target. If Turkmenstan is Catholic, maybe the ruler asked for a crusade against Khotan? But he didn't join it, so....
No, they are not Catholic... But that does not make it less weird.
All that Orthodoxy is not Byzantium. It's locals gone wild.
It was just called.
No, they are not Catholic... But that does not make it less weird.
All that Orthodoxy is not Byzantium. It's locals gone wild.
It was just called.
Well, I'm out of ideas. Sounds like a bug to me.
Good job on the Orthodox Christians this time around, though. That's pretty good penetration of Orthodoxy in the east.
Does the name of this pope is actually...Marco Polo
And soon he will crusader for China
And soon he will crusader for China
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I've been saying for ages that the Crusades need a pretty big overhaul but the devs don't seem to care. I mean I don't blame them since they still have a lot of Conlave features that need fixing/tweaking but it would be nice to get some clarification that they are aware that this is an issue that needs fixing. I'm hoping the new team they've put together is going to address a lot of issues people have with the game as well as implementing some features/changes that people are suggesting.
I also think it's time to revisit crusades in general. The game's mechanics are different enough to justify some changes, I think.
Maybe? Still doesn't justify this stuff happening every game, with every religion.
I believe they are called more or less randomly whenever you have a situation where there are no valid targets with non-zero Crusade weights. This can happen pretty easily in 1066 and later starts, e.g. if Jerusalem has either already been liberated or is otherwise invalid and the Reconquista has gone swimmingly.
I still have fond memories of a recent campaign where the Pope called a Crusade for Arabia, and I was excited by an at least marginally reasonable target and gathered my army and fleet to invade (Jerusalem was Muslim but entirely in revolt, so not eligible, and I had already conquered all of Spain for myself)...until I realized he had called it against the Seljuks, who owned exactly one province that stretched into de jure Arabia, located in the exact center of the Arabian peninsula (and able to support a whole 5k troops without attrition). Just marching there from the nearest port killed off tens of thousand poor Spaniards in a mad quest to gain the crusader trait for my zealous ruler.
I'm talking about wonky targeting in general, not Khotan in particular. Like the Pope calling Crusades on Western India or Zoroastrians Great Holy Waring Western Europe when they still have Muslims in between them.