No crusaders in crusade?

**Vilihelm** · June 26, 2011, 03:22 PM

Hi,
Im playing early era with HRE, in few turns created my first crusade, but cant recruit no crusader sergants, crusader knights or crusader foot knights..only fanatics or regional mercenaries..where is the problem? tried late era, the same - traveled with crusade from england to italy, no even a sign of red cross on mantle

what could be the trick here?

**bɑne** · June 26, 2011, 03:31 PM

I believe you need to be further into the campaign than just a few turns. It also depends on the specific region.

**Vilihelm** · June 26, 2011, 03:32 PM

well thanks for the hope!!

just played another mod year ago, there was crusader recruitment from the first steps through west europe regions

**Erunion Telcontar** · June 26, 2011, 04:27 PM

Yeah, the crusaders are around. They are (if my memory serves me correctly) primarily situated in France/Italy. They should be all over Europe, but not always and not always in huge numbers.

**k/t** · June 26, 2011, 11:40 PM

The pools have not yet filled, that's why they're not available.

**Vilihelm** · June 28, 2011, 02:31 AM

correct! after 20 turns Im full of red crosses in my armies

**tjd123** · June 28, 2011, 06:29 AM

Another random related question. Are their any regions you can recruit crusaders I there isn't a Crusade currently in progress?

**bɑne** · June 28, 2011, 06:31 AM

Afaik no.

**Delvecchio1975** · June 28, 2011, 07:54 AM

that's one of the things i don't really like about them - i enjoy my units to be full strength, but once you take a target, you can't retrain those crusaders, although in a real life situation there would be plenty of fervour post-crusade to replenish those units ...

**bɑne** · June 28, 2011, 09:33 AM

Just keep on conquering with them until the unit is gone - the upkeep is way to high anyways. And with the settlements gained you can recruit more "normal" units.

**k/t** · June 28, 2011, 12:46 PM

In a real life situation you wouldn't be able to recruit crusaders from the city that had been the target of the crusade. You'd have to bring them from Europe.

**Delvecchio1975** · June 29, 2011, 04:22 AM

Originally Posted by k/t

In a real life situation you wouldn't be able to recruit crusaders from the city that had been the target of the crusade. You'd have to bring them from Europe.

which you also can't once the crusade is finished.

**bɑne** · June 29, 2011, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by Delvecchio1975

which you also can't once the crusade is finished.

Well we could go a step further and dissolve all those crusade mercs after a crusade is finished if that is a better option for you

**Delvecchio1975** · June 29, 2011, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by bane_tw

Well we could go a step further and dissolve all those crusade mercs after a crusade is finished if that is a better option for you

Are you trying to corner me?

**bɑne** · June 29, 2011, 01:05 PM

As they are now they can be used against fellow catholics after a crusade, something that they are not ment to do at all from what I remember from their descriptions.
Else we could of course go the other way and make a building like a "Crusade Recruitment Post" with a 0.1 max pool size or similiar.