IMO, one of the greatest missed opportunities for successful Crusades was the warm and cold nature of relations with the Byzantine Empire. This prompted me to wonder what Crusades originated by the Eastern Orthodox Church would have looked like and how and why they would have done so. I'm assuming this is post Great Schism, but not necessarily so. Does anyone have any good ideas?
The most important aspects i can see are:
The Byzantine Empire must be weak, otherwise they'd go to war on their own.
No other nations involved should be significantly stronger than the Byzantines, because the strong nation might get greedy and the Byzantines would be wary of that possibility leading to reciprocal suspicion from the strong nation, &c.
The Orthodox Church would have to be stronger than OTL. This would most likely mean a weaker Roman Church.
Constantinople should be the center of the Orthdox Church for the church leaders to care enough to call for crusade. Going by OTL, not as important, but if not it these Crusades wouldn't benefit the Byzantines much.
The most important aspects i can see are:
The Byzantine Empire must be weak, otherwise they'd go to war on their own.
No other nations involved should be significantly stronger than the Byzantines, because the strong nation might get greedy and the Byzantines would be wary of that possibility leading to reciprocal suspicion from the strong nation, &c.
The Orthodox Church would have to be stronger than OTL. This would most likely mean a weaker Roman Church.
Constantinople should be the center of the Orthdox Church for the church leaders to care enough to call for crusade. Going by OTL, not as important, but if not it these Crusades wouldn't benefit the Byzantines much.