Negative effects of long term Inquisitions?

[Heinrich VI]

my 12 grand inquisitors and 6 normal inquisitors burned more than 150,000 people in the papel states in the last 30 years (record was 27,000 in one year :-). zeal reached the 100% mark but the provinces income doesnt drop and the pope suffers no other penalties (loyality). are there no negative effects when u rape a province like this with your murderous faith?

EDIT: found a bug. inquisitors build in castille dont get the +1 valour bonus they should get according to the strat map.

[w00tage]

guess not http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[MizuKokami]

as far as i can tell, zeal is a two edged sword. enemy crusades can rob you blind if you have lots of zeal in the province, even if the troops they take have low piety. but i think high zeal province produce more pious generals over all, which become good governors when governing pious states. but don't quote me. anyone know what increases piety in your men and heirs?

[pdoan8]

Inquisitors burn those who don't go to the Church every Sunday and those who don't have faith in God. This would result in higher zeal, and possibly larger religion rebels but smaller peasant rebels (not sure about this).

I believe that income is not based on population because there is no population indicator in MTW.

You can rob a high zeal province by moving your crusade through it. Other than that there is no negative effect when using your inquisitors in other factions' land. BTW, AI would thanks you for doing that. Because while you are using your inquisitors to raise zeal in their land, they are busy using their inquisitors on your low peity generals. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Ktonos]

Apart from zeal reduced to half, is there any other effect of major inquisition?

[Heinrich VI]

an inqisitor send by the pope once burned one of my finest generals (robert wallace - the ex-rebel leader in scotland i bribed). well he did not leave england alive...

i found burning enemy kings to be extremly difficult. even my leading firelighter (4star inquisitor) was unable to "enlighten" the french king who had zero piety.

[Sakurai, Saionji]

Also apparantly it is also almost impossible to burn the pope, as italians i eliminated the papacy over and over and over every time they rebelled i just pillaged the provence and then abandoned it... every pope that was generated had like 0 command, 0 2 acumen, 3 influence,... and 0 PIETY...
also his generals had like 0 piety... yet I was never ever ever able to convict them for heresy.

[MizuKokami]

go figure you can't get your catholic inqusitor to convict his religious leader. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

[The_Dude]

While reading this topic, a question come to my mind, if you send one of your inquisitor to a enemy/allied province (but that don't belong to you) for a few years, and then if this faction is excomunated, does the chance of a religion rebelion increase?

[deutschlanduberalles]

Inquisitors are nice, unless I forget to take them out of my provinces and they start burning all my good Catholic peasants. I know it has a good effect on the province, I just don't like the idea of burning my own people. I'm Freddie the Great, not Stalin.

NOBODY EXPECTS THE GERMAN INQUISITION http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Sakurai, Saionji]

Yeah so you would think then the pope should either have highr piety, or the inquisetor shoudl think of a good excuse to not kill him rather then saying he is very pious and he could not be proved a heretic.

[LordKhaine]

I burnt the pope before... at least before the patch I have. I havent tried post patch.