Christianity - why bother?

[Baybars' Nemesis]

I'm talking about the game, btw, not trying to annoy any devout readers. I wonder if anyone would like to comment on whether it's really worth converting during a campaign. I have never done so, although I have conquered provinces with churches in them so I know the AI is willing to do so. But if I want the guns (and to be honest I don't want them very much) I am content to wait until the Dutch arrive, whereas I can't see, personally, why having churches and priests would outweigh the disadvantage of not being able to have Warrior Monks - and I like Warrior Monks: they get killed a bit easily, but they're kind of cool imo.
Any thoughts? And sorry if this has all been discussed at length before - I'm new to the forum and doing archive searches rarely brings up the right stuff I find.

[Nelson]

The best reason to become christian is to give yourself a longer, somewhat more difficult campaign. It's just another way to play. You don't need guns to win but guns ARE fun to use. And the churches do generate income.

[Irving]

what's cool about MI and WE is that if you are buddhist and you take over christian lands... you can burn the churches ... that's what i do....

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Chaos is born from order.
Cowardice is born from bravery.
Weakness is born from strength.
-Sun Tzu

[Zone]

I don't like christianity much as supposedly you lose honour when fighting warrior monks. I just sell any churches I come across.

Oh, and does anyone know if there is a way to cancel christianity once you have it?

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Fight first, ask questions later.

[Klen Sakurai]

Nelson seems to sum it up pretty well.. the only time I play Christian Daimyo is when I feel like playing funny. heh. It adds a vague interest to the campaign to deal with imposing a new religion on your people all the while conquering the lands. I rarely find much use for negotiating with other Christian Daimyo though.. and even though I've tried building cathedrals I never have the option to build a Father Visitor.. did they remove him from the game last minute or am I doing something wrong?

Zone: To cancel your Christian contract all you have to do is build a Buddhist temple somewhere. Likewise, you can become Christian again by building a Church. I think you can even burn it down without any consequences. Weird, huh?

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If I am not a foolio, then maybe YOU are a foolio! Once more into the breach dear friends.. Arr.

[Baybars' Nemesis]

Thanks for the thoughts. I'll probably try it out sometime, as you say, to give the game a bit of variety - and all that burning and destruction sounds like fun too!

[Catiline]

Guns earlier, an easy way to promote revolts in other provinces, ie convert the subjects of a christian daimyo, send in the shinobi and let rip.

Build a cathedral and you rake in the cash like there's no tomorrow.

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Oderint dum metuant

[Nelson]

Klen, the Father Visitor was indeed removed from the game before it was published. (if he was implemented in the first place)

[Muchoman]

Quote Originally posted by Catiline:
Guns earlier, an easy way to promote revolts in other provinces, ie convert the subjects of a christian daimyo, send in the shinobi and let rip.


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You can send priests to buddist daimyos provinces and start religious upprisings when playing as a christian. And the priests wont be caught by "security forces", they have to be killed with ninjas.