Just keep throwing mercenary and holy orders at them is my best suggestion, that was the majority of my troops during this because I wanted to keep all of my main troops at home to quell rebellions.

I created Kingdom of Jerusalem and gave it to my son. I wanted to make sure to get credit for it so I rushed the gates as much as I could to get every holding in the demense and eventually took it.īasically I took 2 more holdings and kept my warscore (or whatever it is called for this, it is the percentage of effort you have put into the war) above 25% which was higher than anyone else in the Crusade.Īfter a couple of years later and me sending 3-4 groups of reinforcements there we eventually won and since I was the one that put the most effort into the war I was awarded all of Jerusalem's holdings. I hired like 2 10k merc troops and a ton of holy orders (makes sure you use those, they are very cheap when you are fighting against a heretic), took my ships over there, and bum-rushed Jerusalem. I was having enough difficulty keeping all that together so I decided to mess around with the Crusades. All Christian rulers will be invited to take part in the war. I had a crusade against Jerusalem when I was the King of Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Once upon a time the Church leader appoints a crusade, the great war campaign against infidels.

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