The Pope

[Vanya]

Can the Pope accrue virtues and vices as well?

Could you face off against a Pope that is constantly drunk, has a secret perversion, is incestuous and is an unhinged loon?

GAH!

That'd be funny to see...

And, if so, can you use an Inquisitor to whack him?

GAH!



[This message has been edited by Vanya (edited 08-28-2002).]

[Funky Phantom]

Imagine a pope being a secret heretic, now that would be interesting http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Nelson]

I would expect the Pope to be inquisitor proof. He is after all the Church's capo di tutti capi.

We know the Borgia pope Alexander boinked his own daughter Lucretia. Popes should get all the same V&Vs.

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[Azmogeddon]

Well from the recent Gamespy diary (http://www.gamespy.com/devdiary/august02/mtw2/), it seems they have had to put some sort of limit on the Pope's V&V's...

"But there's the Pope problem. Or perhaps it isn't a problem. Perhaps fate is trying to communicate through the game … Anyway, for some reason once the vices and virtues system was implemented, the Pope kept turning into something not nice in the personal habits department. Now, while quite a few real medieval Popes were, shall we say, quite "colorful" when it came to their private lives (the Borgias, anyone?), it's not good if the Pope is -- well, it's best to not mention. "

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[Toda Nebuchadnezzar]

lol what so every time the pope came out as some kind of donkey raper or something?


HAHAHA - thats funny.

So what you can't do anything to the pope?

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[Dionysus9]

On the contrary, I think it WOULD be good if the Pope consistently turned out to be a donkey raper.

I don't have any problem with it. That guy is always in my business. It's about time we dug up some dirt on him.

[Kraxis]

Incestuous and pedofile... hmmm isn't that what the catholic world is facing right at the moment?

I say, give it all to the Pope and even more.

But yes, Secret Heretic, NICE!!!! Then send a spy to uncover it and the whole catholic world turns against him, just as he had excommunicated you. Ahhhh... the world is good.

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[Kraellin]

an interesting topic and i like it. not all popes were saints. but let's extend it ever further; how bout if your bishops also had v&v's and your emissaries. ah, the intrigue, the scandal. and what about those mercenaries you're hiring? blackmail, extortion...it has potential, particularly if we ever get an online multi campaign :)

K.


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[DrZettl]

The current pope in my game 'likes little boys rather than little girls'.

So go figure.

[Kraxis]

Ok, if the Emmis, Bishops and Inquisitors (imagine a Secret Heretic there) would get V&V's, then remove the ability of the spy to uncover secrets. Lets have a new building called a Tabloid, that produces the Paparazzi unit, cheap and relentless.
Ahhh... the scandal! http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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