derfinsterling
12-17-2006, 20:59
So I'm playing Portugal on a long campaign. From early on I established good relations with the papacy, giving them buffer regions to save me from my enemies and always followed his orders.
All good and well.
Then, suddenly he excommunicates he (turns out I forgot to call of a siege of a German city...). To add insult to injury - he was frickin' Portuguese! Ungrateful little...
Ok... pretty much immediately I go to war with every catholic faction left (well, except the Scots, but we never had any dealings with one another anyway).
I employ a burn and pillage strategy - taking a few full stacks and go to war into my neighbours lands, burning everything down and moving on (too bad you have to occupy a city once you take it... I'd rather just plunder it and call it a day). That way I rack in enough money to keep my war chest stuffed.
This seems to not go well with the pope as well - he lays siege to Bordeaux. I beat back his troops and re-conquer the regions I so graciously offered as a gift to the papacy over the last 80 or so turns.
A couple of turns later, my king traps the pope in Zagreb. During the battle, the pope is killed.
I spent the rest of that turn and the beginning of the next one to mop up a few pockets of resistance here and there, and sacking both Brugge and Antwerp with the same army.
As the last action before going into the cardinal's college, I send a diplomat to Rome.
I offer them Brugge, Antwerp, and about 20.000 gold pieces in exchange for them becoming my vassal.
And - the papacy accepts!
I know have the newly elected pope (for whom I didn't vote for) as my servant. I think with that, Portugal truly can be considered the ruler of the medieval world... ;-)
All good and well.
Then, suddenly he excommunicates he (turns out I forgot to call of a siege of a German city...). To add insult to injury - he was frickin' Portuguese! Ungrateful little...
Ok... pretty much immediately I go to war with every catholic faction left (well, except the Scots, but we never had any dealings with one another anyway).
I employ a burn and pillage strategy - taking a few full stacks and go to war into my neighbours lands, burning everything down and moving on (too bad you have to occupy a city once you take it... I'd rather just plunder it and call it a day). That way I rack in enough money to keep my war chest stuffed.
This seems to not go well with the pope as well - he lays siege to Bordeaux. I beat back his troops and re-conquer the regions I so graciously offered as a gift to the papacy over the last 80 or so turns.
A couple of turns later, my king traps the pope in Zagreb. During the battle, the pope is killed.
I spent the rest of that turn and the beginning of the next one to mop up a few pockets of resistance here and there, and sacking both Brugge and Antwerp with the same army.
As the last action before going into the cardinal's college, I send a diplomat to Rome.
I offer them Brugge, Antwerp, and about 20.000 gold pieces in exchange for them becoming my vassal.
And - the papacy accepts!
I know have the newly elected pope (for whom I didn't vote for) as my servant. I think with that, Portugal truly can be considered the ruler of the medieval world... ;-)