What does piety mean for non-catholic factions?

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With catholics a low piety general will be easier for an inquisitor to take out, and also be more liekly to loot on a crusade. Whereas a high piety will be better for recruiting troops on crusades.

But,

What relevance does piety have for the Orthodox factions, and to some extent, the Muslim factions?

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[Pragmatic]

Piety ties in with the religion of the population, when it comes to governors. Put in a low-piety governor, and it'll lower the loyalty of the province. If the governor has a high dread, as well, it'll raise the loyalty.

[ravenking]

Actually, piety is a bit more complicated than that. It all depends on the zeal of a province (at least in my experiance). You should compare the province head's piety with the provinces zeal, if they are dissimilar it is bad for loyalty. A bunch of peasants who couldn't care less about religeon aren't going to give a flyin' crap if thier general is on his knees all the time.

[Pragmatic]

Quote Originally posted by ravenking:
Actually, piety is a bit more complicated than that. It all depends on the zeal of a province (at least in my experiance). You should compare the province head's piety with the provinces zeal, if they are dissimilar it is bad for loyalty. A bunch of peasants who couldn't care less about religeon aren't going to give a flyin' crap if thier general is on his knees all the time.[/QUOTE]

But what about non-catholic factions? I know, playing as the Byzantines, there's nothing I can do to raise the zeal of a province. That's the job of inquisitors.

[hrvojej]

As orthodox, you will probably get low piety generals as well, since they are trained in low zeal provinces, so that's not a problem. The issue arises only if there is a discrepancy between governor's piety and province's zeal.

edit: As Muslim, you can use the zeal for Jihads. Use imams to raise it.

[This message has been edited by hrvojej (edited 10-04-2002).]