crusades

[Cooter of Hazzard]

Out of curiosity, what is the time limits between crusades? Also, if a faction gets excommunicated(ex. England) why can't you call a crusade against London? Are only certain cities hardcoded for that?

[Vince Noir]

If the Pope calls a crusade there will usually be a time unit to join, and/or to take the particular settlement. However if you call the crusade yourself I wouldn't worry about a time limit. You should just want to get there as soon as possible because the other catholic factions will soon appear with full stacks also eager for the prize and glory of a successful crusade. For calling crusades, this can usually be done when you have enough Papal favor and it cant be too soon since the last crusade (at least 50 years). You should be able to crusade against any faction that gets excommunicated, this is tactic employed by many Total War players. I've crusaded against London before so as long as you have met the other criteria I see no reason why you cannot. Hope this helps.

[Gwyllion]

The possible Crusade targets I think depend on the relationship of the given Faction and the Pope, and it might also depend on the percentage of Christians in the settlement.

[Gogolometro]

Depends about 2 things how much favor you have and how bad is the excomunicated faction in pope scale.Zero on excomunicated and full for you mean "Is time for judgement day", free units and lot of mercs for asasinate you rival who step out from pope donkeys.
What I see fascinating is to kill the rival priests, destroy their churches, and planting spys.Chance for fast crop for you are increasing.
When crusade a crestian 1 thing to know see were the faction leader is and make him like your last target, killing leader mean mean "crusade canceled".And make the target like last target, of course can siege but is a must to be last taken.This scenario available if you want just take their kingdom.Not apply to muslim, ortodox, pagan faction.

[Gorrrrrn]

the file descr_regions has certain regions that set up to be jihad and crusade and horde targets eg:

Silves_Province
Silves
moors
Iberian_Rebels
130 128 0
fish, jihad, crusade
5
5
religions { catholic 55 orthodox 0 islam 35 pagan 5 heretic 5 }

Vilnius is set up to be horde target as well as crusade one.

(I'll let someone else answer why the Teutonic order finds it more interesting to attack anyone except the Lithuanians.)

[Gogolometro]

Are some difference in crusade targets from vanilla to SS.If for excomunicated catholics work same like in vanilla, against pagan/muslims things became different.In Vanilla can call crusade against any muslim targets, now only some particular city's.Is an open range for more targets for fattys, Cairo, Antiochia, Jerusalim.Versus Moors you have only Granada but not Cordoba.You can call crusade against Bagdad (wierd thats right) but not against Acre.And Vilnius is just so bad Target in many aspects, is ok if you want crusade lituanians with Poland or TO but even if i play like HRE I not find that castle like an interesting target, is far from any hotspot, just a junk crusade good for second hand crusaders like TO.
I dont know if is similar for jihads.