Rampant Heresy

Ok! My Scottish game is the first campaign I have played since installing 1.2 and it also happens to be the first game where I have actually sufferred from virtually uncontrollable heresy.

The inquisition have been, failed miserably to denounce a single heretic, and buggered off back to Rome and I am now seeing more and more of my own priests being converted to the Heretic's views.

Heresy has reached 42% in Inverness and other area's are following suit pretty fast.

So, what do I do?

I have just tried recruiting another priest in London where I have an Abbey Church but he came out of church with an amazing 1 piety and stands no chance of surviving against 3 star Heretic's.

Quite a novel situation for me I've never had any problems like this before.

Assassins.

Also, I've had numerous occasions with other factions when a heretic has had a 75 percent chance or better of being burned, but survived multiple denouncements. At first I thought it was a fluke, a really lucky heretic or two. Now it's happened too often.

If you have same skill or only few more and you´re not RP:ing savegame, denounce, fail load etc...
As you well know Cardinals can´t turn to heretics, but for Scotland it´s problem because their cardinal dies quick... Keep Cardinals and them only in that high heresy lands.

I'd recommend reading the Guide to priests, if you have'nt already.

EDIT: well that was some rather numb advice...

Anyway you'll have to recruit at least 6 clergy, send them out at the same time.
I'd say the best bet is to train as many as you can before sending them out, the God squad.

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Originally Posted by Sinan

I'd say the best bet is to train as many as you can before sending them out, the God squad.

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It's very difficult to train God Squads with Scotland.

The closest non-Catholic factions are the Moors and Russia. Even then they're only reachable via a long, non-productive sea voyage.

Nonetheless it seems it's the only choice.

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Originally Posted by Sinan

I'd recommend reading the Guide to priests, if you have'nt already.

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No, I had a look on the MTW2 Guides board but didn't see anything about priests. Can you post a link?

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Originally Posted by Didz

No, I had a look on the MTW2 Guides board but didn't see anything about priests. Can you post a link?

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Sure: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=77089

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Fire away if you need any help.

Be careful of them sneaky heretics too. I had one in Inverness once that was way up top by himself in a place only reachable by boat......the bugger turned nearly 30% of my people into heretics before i realized he was up there:furious3:

If nothing else helps, you can surround those heretics and step on them. A bit of an exploit but most efficient.

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Originally Posted by Sinan

Sure: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=77089

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Thanks! perhaps some of these guides should be top&tailed and moved to the MTW2 Guides thread before they get lost.

The Inverness area does seem to be a hotbed of heresy for some reason; I'm guessing it's hardcoded into the game. I'm further guessing that this reflects the Lollards, much as the heretical element in Toulouse reflects the Albigensians.

Check out this guy:

http://www.gashe.ac.uk:443/isaar/P0243.html

who was the "Papal Inquisitor of Heretical Pravity in Scotland" What a great job title. :laugh4: