Requirements for crusader units

[ChavKilla]

Question is this: When you have an army join a crusade, what is required for crusader units (merc tab) to be available for hire?

Playing as Genoa I can only hire them in genoa & milan, whereas north africa yields none despite the religion being 100% catholic or there abouts in most regions.

Any ideas anyone?

[PapaRosario]

Mercenaries available for hire are defined in descr_mercenaries. You can check there to see what mercs are available in every region. Crusader mercs are generally only available in Europe and you obviously can only hire them with a Crusading general.

Edit: Also, level of religion has nothing to do with it.

[tudor93]

Mercenaries available for hire are defined in descr_mercenaries. You can check there to see what mercs are available in every region. Crusader mercs are generally only available in Europe and you obviously can only hire them with a Crusading general.

Edit: Also, level of religion has nothing to do with it.

not really, you get lots of dismounted crusader knights when you are near your target

[PapaRosario]

not really, you get lots of dismounted crusader knights when you are near your target

Only if the target is in Europe. Here is a list of regions where Dismounted Crusader Knights are available.

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pool England_Wales
regions York_Province Caernarvon_Province Nottingham_Province London_Province Exeter_Province Winchester_Province
pool Norway
regions Oslo_Province Nykoeping_Province Skara_Province Bergen_Province Uppsala_Province Eikundarsund_Province
pool Northern_Germany
regions Stettin_Province Hamburg_Province Magdeburg_Province Wroclaw_Province Frankfurt_Province Cologne_Province
pool Southern_Germany
regions Prague_Province Nuremburg_Province Staufen_Province Vienna_Province Innsbruck_Province Salzburg_Province
pool Poland
regions Riga_Province Vilnius_Province Thorn_Province Halych_Province Krakow_Province Plock_Province
pool France
regions Caen_Province Rennes_Province Paris_Province Angers_Province Bordeaux_Province Toulouse_Province Marseille_Province
pool Burgundy
regions Metz_Province Rheims_Province Dijon_Province Lyon_Province Clermont_Province
pool Spain
regions Leon_Province Lisbon_Province Cordoba_Province Granada_Province Oporto_Province Salamanca_Province Silves_Province Murcia_Province Seville_Province
pool Pyrenaes
regions Toledo_Province Pamplona_Province Zaragoza_Province Valencia_Province Barcelona_Province Palma_Province Burgos_Province
pool Northern_Italy
regions Milan_Province Venice_Province Bologna_Province Genoa_Province Pisa_Province Rome_Province
pool East_Greece
regions Constantinople_Province Iraklion_Province Canakkale_Province Rhodes_Province Adrianople_Province

England, France, Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, Iberia, Italy, and Greece.

[tudor93]

Hmmm, I know for sure that I saw lots of crusader mercs available when I was next to Jerusalem ... Maybe it was in vanilla, do you know if in vanilla those regions where crusader mercs are available are different ?

[PapaRosario]

Yes it was probably in Vanilla.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

pool Levant
regions Edessa_Province Antioch_Province Aleppo_Province Acre_Province Damascus_Province Jerusalem_Province
unit merc galley, exp 0 cost 200 replenish 0.36 - 1.0 max 2 initial 1 religions { islam } crusading
unit merc galley, exp 0 cost 1040 replenish 0.03 - 0.15 max 2 initial 1
unit Bedouin Cavalry exp 0 cost 630 replenish 0.04 - 0.13 max 2 initial 1 religions { islam }
unit Kwarizmian Cavalry exp 0 cost 1020 replenish 0.08 - 0.25 max 4 initial 0 end_year 1400 events { mongols_invasion_warn }
unit Turkopoles exp 0 cost 720 replenish 0.06 - 0.18 max 3 initial 1 religions { catholic orthodox }
unit Pilgrims exp 0 cost 35 replenish 0.18 - 0.5 max 6 initial 1 religions { catholic } crusading
unit Religious Fanatics exp 0 cost 70 replenish 0.12 - 0.33 max 4 initial 1 religions { catholic } crusading
unit Crusader Knights exp 0 cost 220 replenish 0.15 - 0.35 max 4 initial 0 end_year 1300 religions { catholic } crusading
unit Crusader Sergeants exp 0 cost 110 replenish 0.15 - 0.35 max 4 initial 0 end_year 1300 religions { catholic } crusading
unit Dismounted Crusader Knights exp 0 cost 170 replenish 0.07 - 0.17 max 2 initial 0 end_year 1300 religions { catholic }
unit Ghazis exp 0 cost 100 replenish 0.18 - 0.5 max 6 initial 1 religions { islam } crusading
unit Mutatawwi'a exp 0 cost 60 replenish 0.08 - 0.25 max 4 initial 1 religions { islam } crusading
unit Turkomans Mercs exp 0 cost 740 replenish 0.06 - 0.18 max 3 initial 1 religions { islam }