How to participate in a Crusade

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Fellow CK fans,
It is one of the main attractions of the game, but it is not vey clear to me how you participate in a Crusade.
It seems that whenever a Pope call a Crusade , you as king or duke sent some of your men to Levant. you sit and watch how the AI manages the Crusade and ta-chan¡¡¡ the outcome is success or a total failure.
if success, on top of bonus of prestige, might you get some territories?, any kind of role in Levant politics?
if it is not the case, i hope that it would be an scenario where you can play as king of jeruslem or count of tripoli
Greven, you only have to say "no way" or "something like that"

 

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Does kinda beg the question of how these forces would be coordinated/led.

Would there be one leader who is chosen for his piety to lead the crudsade and high ranking lords who are vassals of another monarch be temporarily under the control of the crusade leader? Most of the "official Holy Land" crusades were led by monarchs, but the first and fourth crusade had kinda hodgepodge leadership (o.k. the fifth crusade had three leaders but basically it was the King of Jerusalem who was leader).

If it works like EU then there will never be any coordination among the Christian side.

 

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I belive many monarchs went themselves or sent some commander for "their" troops. In many battles theese did cooperate but solo action still happened..

IMO those participating should all be part of a "crusade-alliance", naturally atwar with saracens & (mongols later on ).

coordination is something of a problem, no doubt. maybe player should be allowed separate command, but others be "united"?

 

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Even when there were differences among leaders they usually at least attacked the same cities. If you don't have any more control than in EU each of the contingents could/would go their separate ways and if you wanted any coordination you would have to try to follow the AI troops around besieging/attacking whatever they did.

There were mini-crusades (Richard of Cornwall, Prince Edward (later King Edward I)) in which folks went off on their own but the big crusades were semi-well coordinated.

 

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I would suggest something like when a city falls the amount of troops from the different nations besieging are taken into account. Each nation would get a certain amount of spoils from the city according to the percentage of the besieging force they had.