Cheating to kill the pope

Ok don't start lecturing about cheating because I think this more like ending the guys life a bit prematurly than cheating :P

Basically for my 1st campaign ever I have more cardinals than anyone else. So I want to have a papal election :beam: But the popes only like 50...

So using Medieval Shell I figure I can kill him right? I did soem research and on rome apparently kill_character charactername worked. As apparently alot of other cheats are the same I figured it'd work.

But I can't vfor the life of me get it working. What do I put as the character name? His Official title is Pope Gregory Of The Papal States. Do I put Pope, Pope Gregory, Pope Gregory of the papal states? Do I include spaces?

:help:

I don't think that cheat works. I tried using it to eliminate a few of my worthless agents (ever created a merchant or diplomat who had a zero skill straight out of the box?), and I keep getting the error message "unrecognized command".

Kill him with assassins.

And if you really want to cheat use the save/load version so you don't suffer excomm if you fail.
Popes are not easy to kill, but they are not that hard either.

Lol, by the time I train up an asassin good enough the pope will be dead...

Hah hah, as HRE I defeated the Pope in a battle, and two of their Papal States armies with him. Actually pretty funny to see the Pope in the before-battle view where you see the balance of forces. The Pope leading an army :laugh4:

So yeah... kind of an extreme and too open way, but I'd say try it out.
The only other way I also see is like said train an assassin to get him. If there was only a way like in RTW where you could just move in a spy who was infected with plague.

You can use a spy as a plague bearer to spread it. It works just fine in this game.

Ola amigos, sou do Brasil, vou usar o google tradutor:
I have a problem, I can't find the pope in any city, neither in Rome nor in the capital of the Holy Germanic Empire Frankfurt. I trained 2 assassins and they are at maximum skill, but it's no use, I can't find the pope. I am sad. I didn't want to be excommunicated, I've been in alliance with the papal states since level 1, but playing with a pope of my great enemy is very boring. I am very sad. wanted to kill the pope