Love the mod but im confused

[Hospitallers Kane]

A few things really
im playing the campaign and nobody really seems to attack me :\
also How can i recruit Dismounted Outremer knights , Teutonic Knights , Knights of St john and Templar axeman because they are not available to me anywhere!
lastly
the call for the popes help
im not sure how it works
i build the thing
and lost jaffa
but got no back up?
thanks

[Hospitallers Kane]

Plz help guys

[retep219]

A few things really
im playing the campaign and nobody really seems to attack me :\
also How can i recruit Dismounted Outremer knights , Teutonic Knights , Knights of St john and Templar axeman because they are not available to me anywhere!
lastly
the call for the popes help
im not sure how it works
i build the thing
and lost jaffa
but got no back up?
thanks

Check your difficulty level? Maybe it's low and that's why you aren't attacked.

The various elite order knights require a reform that happens ~1220. Around the same time as the Mongols, if I recall correctly.

You need to build the "Call for Crusade" after you lose a city, if I recall correctly. Not that you really need it, lol.

[Vaynakh]

If your worrying about not being attacked you can bet you won't have to worry about that for too much longer

Just givin ya an idea what BC is like, on vh/vh playing Georgia I built up my forces in a period of peace and decided to go crusading and help out the KoJ. Well Armenia didn't like me on their lands so after my crusade got cut short by an oppurtunistic Seljuk invasion, they decide to attack my armies on the way home. Later the Kypchaks invade but it goes sour for them so I get a peace deal with the bonus of Majar province. Then the Romans attack for no reason. And no body wants peace

Great campaign!

[Tintin2]

Sometimes it occurs none of the factions attack or even go at war.
Had it sometimes myself when it was the year 1218 and none of the factions was at war with each other.
There are some various reports about this problem in the suggestion thread.
Maybe create your own wars?

[Goblin]

I'd say it's somewhat nice to see factions living a life of peace for a change. I understand that the goal TW series is to satisfy the sweet bloodlust we all have more than enough of and I agree that the main aspect of the game is to spill the blood of the non-believers or just people we don't fancy a lot, but it is a nice experience to build your empire in a non-conquest manner for a change - build roads, try to get rich via trade, enforce the faith of the people thorugh constuction of religion building. After all, although the middle ages weren't specifically a time of harmonous peace, there wasn't constant slaughter going on neither.

I'm not saying that BC should be pacifistic, just that a little world peace won't harm anyone.

[Spider1110]

Dismounted Outremer knights aren't available for recruitment since 2.0. this is intended. Teutonic Knights , Knights of St john and Templar axeman become available later in the game after certain events.

[Dago Red]

I've just started playing but.... For the Orders you need to build the right Order building. For the Templars that is at the castle at Acre (i believe). For the Hospitallers, that is the Order of St. John building that seemed only available to me once I took Antioch, then became available to build in other cities (it may have been triggered by something else but I could only build it after taking Antioch coincidence or not).

I've no idea how the Papal reinforcements work exactly but since "building" that at one of the 3 places I can (i forget which city) I have received reinforcements. A few turns later I got a message and an enormous stack of heavy infantry and knights appeared on the coast with trebuchets and catapults - they were so hardcore i could not even afford to keep them more than 1 turn!! I had to disband my other army entirely and destroy some stables to afford their upkeep.....

I've since gotten another message saying the Pope launched another crusade but they never show up -just get more messages saying they've been derailed to Byzantium.

[Bull]

Your questions are pretty much answered.
I'll add this: you have to lose a major settlement like Jerusalem, or the castle (forgot its name), for papal aid to come. Not just any small city.

[sirfiggin]

just want to say; I'm very impressed with this mod, even on medium difficulty settings as ERE, have been defeated on at least one occasion by the Turks, and had a very hard time pushing them back out of Anatolia, not only that, but when I thought I was going to have it easy... Armenia attack! they took two border settlements before I could respond, though afterwards they crumbled.

However, one query; how is diplomacy supposed to work in this game? every faction I try fails to give me the most basic things, trade rights, map information, etc, even when offered considerable amounts of money. What do I have to do here?!

[caesarion]

generally the AI is easily handled with... any faction will do almost anything for a settlement... dont try to convince the AI with money, do it with regions. best way to give them regions that are so far away from the capital that they wont be able to hold onto them due to miscontent within the city. i love bribing off ayyubids by selling them real estates in india... pure nonsense
a smart thing to do before pawning off a settlement in a diplomacy move is to destroy any building that allows recruiting. since this will lead to the fact that the settlement will have no automatically generated garrison when you sell it out )))

[damnmap]

that's a good think I usually get sick of the campaign when I have to fight other factions... it's so annoying. All those nigly small clumps of elite units that have to be hoovered up constantly.