Re: St. Louis Crusades
Originally posted by Obelixeke
Hope I'm not breaking up some conversation, but I wanted to know your opinion on how the Seventh and Eighth Crusades (the ones of St. Louis as far as I know) should be handled. As these were basically a 'one country' crusades (well, Jerusalem 'allied' with Louis in the 7th and I think in the 8th Sicily was involved too with the Anjou family ruling) and affect countries that I'm scripting events for (Ayyubids in Egypt and Tunis).
So please, any ideas???
Sorry for my bad french
Well...
for the 7th, the alliance with Jerusalem is not necessary (but possible). Cyprus is better.
For the 7th : add troops to Cyprus with leader Saint Louis, and give to her some CB shields (removable later) to Alexandria and Cairo. If this cities are taken before a limit date, it's victory !
If not, it launch an event "capture of Saint Louis", with a great ransom for Cyprus and France (who should therefore try to support directly the action).
After liberation of Saint Louis, I had previewed an event "Saint Louis in Holy Land", where France can pay some money to give troops and fortress (if possible ?

) to Kingdom of Jerusalem.
For the 8th : as all depend of the intervention of the Anjou of Sicily, we can provoke the crusade, but another event, for Sicily, give her the possibility to really support the attack (so she wins some troops, leader St Louis (not necessary) and CB shields on Tunis), or to do nothing or too late (historically choice), which immediatly crush the crusade.
Only one need : Saint Louis MUST be dead in 1270...
