Crazy Duke
02-08-2004, 04:36
I have very interesting experience with Pope.
Playing with Spanish/Early/Expert, I start conquering as usual I do: Almohads, Egypt, Turks, Byz, in mean time have a ?blitz krieg? with Aragones, so Pope don?t have time to boring me. For that time I have inquisitor, send couple of them to all Pope territories (good thing is that they born with 3 stars) and start annoying him when conquering other west European Christian brotherhood, so was only once excomunicated for a short time, cause Pope die, other one have a problem with Italians. Also manage my diplomacy, etc.
After I take control of all islamic and catholic land, I kick the Pope to paradise, and continue to conquer the rest of the map: East Orthodox Europe and Mongols.
Pope never appears again After that I have some 40-50 moves.
My conclusion:
As usual new Pope is elect by some catholic faction. So I smash them all, was in war with him, so there are no other one to give the man for his throne.
Or I have lucky, or AI bug.
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Playing with Spanish/Early/Expert, I start conquering as usual I do: Almohads, Egypt, Turks, Byz, in mean time have a ?blitz krieg? with Aragones, so Pope don?t have time to boring me. For that time I have inquisitor, send couple of them to all Pope territories (good thing is that they born with 3 stars) and start annoying him when conquering other west European Christian brotherhood, so was only once excomunicated for a short time, cause Pope die, other one have a problem with Italians. Also manage my diplomacy, etc.
After I take control of all islamic and catholic land, I kick the Pope to paradise, and continue to conquer the rest of the map: East Orthodox Europe and Mongols.
Pope never appears again After that I have some 40-50 moves.
My conclusion:
As usual new Pope is elect by some catholic faction. So I smash them all, was in war with him, so there are no other one to give the man for his throne.
Or I have lucky, or AI bug.
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif