AI states will not crusade

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I have been playing the game for a while now and I have noticed that the AI rulers prefer to attack members of their own religion. Muslims will fight only other muslims; Christians other christians. The fact that the pope has called for a crusade is of no concern to anyone. Rulers are quite happy to rack up negative piety in the hundreds.

Recently as Portugal in the third cursade scenerio, I managed to get Aragon and France to attack the Moors with me, but this is an exception. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem is thriving quite peacefully and no one has any interest in the Holy Land.

 

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Generally the AI will only attack another religion if it has claims upon it, which I understand is in itself a bug.

 

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have to agree here.... I even tried it with getting France and Germany as allies then dragging them into a crusade against the holy land... but noooooo... they were much more interested in asking me to attack minor Catholic counts.... even though I was in a fight to the death with the Fatmids....

 

[MichOrion]

I had a similair experience, I was the only one crusading. The AI has no interest in crusading, they would rather fight other christains and have their dynasties crumble. In my current game it's ~1100 and France and England have broken apart, Spain is nearly all muslim and big chunks of Germany are independent.

 

[DoS]

Yea, the AI just enters a crusade if they are allied to yourself or to another nation involved. Germany once conquered Jerusalem, but just because their ally Byzantion had been attacked by the Ayyubides. So I´ve seen bishops becomming rebellious, because the king didn´t crusade and his piety became negative, which led to a splintered kingdom.

 

[MichOrion]

The crusading aspect of CK definatly needs improvement. Hopefully it'll be fixed in a later patch. I'm pretty used to how Paradox games evolve.