Pope Function

Dear all,

I would like to ask some question about the pope function.

I currently play a campaign as Byzantines. I have wiped out Hungary, Venice, the Turks are left with to provinces at far East (I spare them to use the as a buffer for the Timurids).

The Mongol invasion has already begun for my surprise in the Middle east (I was expecting the north of Bosporus) and I manage to stop them in my first Heroic ever battle. They came with 3 full stacks against 1 of mine; I gut them out like pigs and left them to rot under the hot sun of Middle East. My plan work perfectly. I waited them by a small rocky passage, I set up my line of defense at the top of a mountain and they had to zig zac going up a slipy slop as my 5 units Byzantine Guard Archers as well as my 4 units of Vardarioratai reined death :skull: upon them. At the end of the road they had to face a wall of spears supporting by Cavalry.

At the west the pope called a war upon me. I decided to lay siege at Rome and make a diplomat of mine to ask him for a truce. The Pope deny my request and on the same turn attacked my stuck with everything he got (not that much thought) I easily defeat him but I did not kill the Pope.

Now the question comes.

Dose the pope need at list one city to keep his Function alive or this rule dose not applies for the Pope?

If the current Pope Dies and a new one is elected where will he show up?

I read some ware that the Pope faction do not get eliminated but transformed to a Horde in order to seek for a new capital. If this is true does anybody knows where the horde will appear and which city will attack?

Thank you all in advance

The Pope will get another city given to him by a Catholic faction.

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Originally Posted by Von Nanega

The Pope will get another city given to him by a Catholic faction.

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well sometimes that doesn't happen. I was Turks and took Rome and killed the Pope. WHen I expanded west, I didn't see any white regions so that means the Pope aint got no home. But funnily a Pope spawns near Rome every so often and evrytime he comes I kill him again. For this long period no crusades were ever called. Also where there were once legions of immortal cardinals rampaging my lands, their umbers fell greatly until satan took over their college and began spawning super heretic here and there. Damn I dont know how many imams got poor prosecuter trait because of that.

Anywho I decided to cut the Pope some slack and gave him a territory. For my kindness he called a crusade against me. Time to restock them archers and trebs.

As I noted before, A Catholic faction has to GIVE the Papacy a new home.

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Originally Posted by Von Nanega

As I noted before, A Catholic faction has to GIVE the Papacy a new home.

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That's true. For that it's necessary to get a diplomat to the pope, though. Or wait till the pope reaches a catholic nation.

As the moors. I kill the pope everytime he respawns as well. Now I'm getting tired of it and I'll most likely give him a territory and offer him a truce. Maybe that'll make the catholics back off again. I don't want to destroy them all... yet.