Grond
10-14-2005, 19:15
I was playing with inquisitors last night, trying to discover how to properly use these guys to create dismay and unhappiness in my enemies. I found that if you try to burn a guy enough times and he survives it, they develop a V&V of devout (+2 piety) or born again (+4 or 6, I think). I had one enemy go from 1 piety to 6, after 2-3 inquisitions.
After discovering that inquisitors give V&V bonuses IF they don't burn a guy, I then took a 0 level inquisitor and sicced him on my king (piety 2). He gets two new V&V, devout and secret athiest. I decided to do the same with my heir, and he gets the same thing. (These british kings just aren't very interested in religion, are they?) I think, "Hmmmm, if piety were good for anything, this'd be a great!" I then use the inquisitor on a few of my higher piety generals. They all pass, and get a V&V after the 2nd inquisition I believe (sometimes the first).
Now, if I could only remember what Piety is good for?
With inquisitors, do they cause a zeal balloon? That is, they go in, the zeal goes up a little, then a lot, then drops out? If so, one could set up a crusade, and send in an inquisitor in the enemy provinces. Zeal balloons, you move the inquisitor before it drops, and send in a cardinal or some bishops to keep the zeal high in the province. Then, when the crusade rolls in, everyone runs off and joins.
I wasn't quite remembering exactly how the inquisitor process worked, and with no internet access, couldn't pull up the umpteen guides many people have been kind enough to put in here.
After discovering that inquisitors give V&V bonuses IF they don't burn a guy, I then took a 0 level inquisitor and sicced him on my king (piety 2). He gets two new V&V, devout and secret athiest. I decided to do the same with my heir, and he gets the same thing. (These british kings just aren't very interested in religion, are they?) I think, "Hmmmm, if piety were good for anything, this'd be a great!" I then use the inquisitor on a few of my higher piety generals. They all pass, and get a V&V after the 2nd inquisition I believe (sometimes the first).
Now, if I could only remember what Piety is good for?
With inquisitors, do they cause a zeal balloon? That is, they go in, the zeal goes up a little, then a lot, then drops out? If so, one could set up a crusade, and send in an inquisitor in the enemy provinces. Zeal balloons, you move the inquisitor before it drops, and send in a cardinal or some bishops to keep the zeal high in the province. Then, when the crusade rolls in, everyone runs off and joins.
I wasn't quite remembering exactly how the inquisitor process worked, and with no internet access, couldn't pull up the umpteen guides many people have been kind enough to put in here.