PLEASE Fix Crusade ASAP

[Seveers]

Crusade has to be the most poorly thought out mechanic in the entire game and has left me incredibly disappointed and frustrated.

I am offered stacks of 1-15 random units when completing some quests. Units that cannot be used in my army since I have already filled the maximum number of slots. If I put them in a seperate army, they will die instantly and do no damage as it's such a low stack. For the first few days, they can be used to scout. However, once every route is guarded by a demon army of some sort, they become worthless.

The amount of troops recruitable needs to be VASTLY increased, both in speed and quantity. I cannot emphasise this enough.I am having to skip for months on end just to be able to gather enough units to defeat these demon garrisons and therefore progress the story. Once I attack one of these garrisons, I will lose the majority of my units and therefore be back to square one of waiting endlessly for more to become available.

I am playing on the absolute easiest combat difficulty (because I suck) but this does not effect crusade at all. Crusade, at a minimum, should have difficulty settings and multipliers. I do not want to put it on auto and therefore miss out on content.

I got so frustrated that I tried to download a mod to cheat my way through the brickwall that is crusade. However, no mods that I can see have any options that help with crusade recruits. Sure, I can give myself a million gold, but that's worthless if there's no one to recruit.

In summary, I can't actually progress the game unless I skip months and months. I have recently captured Drezen.

Rant over. And breathe.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can get back to playing, let me know.

[Overlard]

Originally posted by Aliceskysareblue:

its alot better then kingmaker, I pretty just stopped by act 3, all those timed quests were annoying and auto kinda punishes you in the end.

that said it needs work, why cant I combine ? armies ? why cant I add more units ? they need to telegrah it better, I am certain once they patch it it will be great, but right now its rather frustrating. even more so because auto shuts off certain quests

It's possible to combine (or at least swap out) army units. Both armies have to be on the same spot, then you should see a circle by the army's name with two arrows going both ways. Click on that to move units between armies. It would be helpful if the tutorial ever mentioned this at all, to be sure.

It's good they added such in depth tutorials for regular PnP play, but the crusade tutorial really skimped (or maybe I just missed something) in my opinion. I lucked into realizing the unit limit came from the general not having a relevant ability to increase it and had to look up how to combine armies from a post on reddit. I'm still not entirely sure how AC and to-hit matter for mass combat, maybe it makes the unit take and deal more damage respectively...?