There is a crusade for Tunis right now. I am playing Spain and have been marching my army from Granada through North Africa, etc. Every turn I have dozens of troops desert because I am not making sufficient crusade progress. I am marching as far as possible towards Tunis every turn except for taking time to fight the Moors (the owners of Tunis).

What's the deal? What are the mechanics at play here?

I play as England and so far used them only to get from the island on shore or move general to another castle quicker by ships, most of my boats end up destroyed anyway since I dont use them regulary and are quiet costly in my opinion

​Hello Total Warriors,

You’ve maybe heard me mention that we’re working on a new stream for the end of this month. As it’s the first of its kind, I wanted to give some context about what we’ll be showing.

On April 30th at 3pm BST, we’ll be going live on Twitch , YouTube and Bilibili with our first ever Total War: Show and Tell.

Show and Tells are something we regularly do internally, where different development teams come together to share snippets of the cool things they’re working on, and we wanted to try and extend an invitation to one of these publicly.

Before we get into it – I just want to highlight that we’ll be showing you in-development footage, mostly running without UI. Nothing seen in this stream will be final quality, so you’ll see placeholders and broken textures all over the place. This is something that we’ve been doing over on our Medieval III streams – and you’ve told us that you enjoyed these insights, so we’re trying to expand that thinking to other games in the hopes of getting you all involved earlier.

If you don’t want any spoilers, stop reading here!

We have asked each development team what they’d be interested in presenting, so in this Show and Tell, you can expect to see:

Medieval III

The Building Medieval III series is the best place for us to share our progress, and we don’t want to try and cram one of those streams into 15 minutes. Instead, we’re using this space to discuss our approach to rosters (using one faction as an example) and answer some top community questions (but look forward to our next dedicated Medieval III stream in the Summer).

Rome II

Surprise! We spoke last year (and in the Community Inbox stream) about wanting to return to some of our older titles and update them. Rome II is the first title we’re doing this for, and we’ll be sharing our plans for what you can expect to see.

Warhammer III

We’ll start with a discussion on a few bits about upcoming Campaign AI changes and the Siege Rework, before giving you the first look at Bhashiva in-engine, alongside the accompanying FLC Legendary Hero coming as part of Update 8.0. 

Then, it’s onto Lords Of The End Times, and we’re thrilled to be introducing another Legendary Lord. We’ll show some in-engine footage of them alongside revealing a couple of the units included in their pack.

Warhammer 40,000

There’s been a lot of discussion about the game’s scale, so we wanted to take this opportunity to answer some of those questions. We’ll show you the current development pass on planetary visuals, chatting about how we’re tackling battling across an entire planet. Then, we’ve got a few battle maps to fly around in, where we’ll give you a proper look at the map featured in our trailer, alongside a look at some less dense maps.

Community Inbox

Our first community inbox was well received, and we thought this is a good place to slot in another. As the game directors will have already covered specific game bits, we’ll have Roger answer some of the franchise-level questions that you’ve emailed in. If you haven’t dropped Roger an email before, we can’t promise that if you did so today that it would make it into our stream next week, but don’t let it stop you doing it for when we next catch up with Roger. You can do so via roger[at]totalwar.com

At the end of each segment, we’ll let you know when you’ll hear more from each game. We’re very excited to show you what we’re working on and hope to see you there!

P.S. Consider this a one-off for now, but if you enjoy the stream and the format, let us know and we’ll look to repeat it when we’ve got another batch of things to show.

See you there!
Josh // Head of Community Engagement

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I can't remember where I saw it but there was a reddit post that had the sad and happy guy in the bus with the caption that "Medieval 3 will be nothing like Medieval 2". That got me thinking what I would want the devs to bring over from Medieval 2.

For me personally, getting Jeff van Dyck again as the composer would elevate the atmosphere of the campaign and the battles.

Other honorable mentions would be the pre-battle speeches and the assassination short videos. Just adds a bit of charm to the game.