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Play Russia. No pope to worry about, no inquisitors, and you get Ikoner's studios which up your conversion rate and convince the locals that even though you just sacked their city they should sit down, shut up, and accept the change in management.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swordsman
i've never seen more than a leval 2 heritic and never realy bothered with them
Witches? never seen them above 1 magic. And my priests always have a 95% chance of killing them as a result. Never a threat.
Heretics on the other hand can be lethal if left unchecked. Catholics have the huge advantage here in the form of cardinals. Always keep cardinals spread out so you have a dependable method of killing heresy all across your kingdom. Send your priests into the wilderness to gain levels by converting, and bring them back to your own lands when they've become a cardinal. On a similar note I've had priests fall to heresy without any heretic around. I'm guessing that's akin to captains becoming rebel, and it usually occurs in distant lands.
As for people getting pissed off at the Pope. Unlike MTW1, I've found it doable to be a "good catholic". I also suspect the Popes meddling is the reason that even in the late game you often see lots of catholic factions left. While in MTW1 by the late game typically only 2 or 3 catholic factions would be left, having gobbled up the rest. While he may piss you off now and then, he does keep the peace to an extent.
As highlighted above, just keep him happy with cash and don't wage aggressive wars! Remember the threats for excommuncation go to both sides. I know it's tempting to counter attack but it can work against you. So take the Pope seriously and taunt the enemy into attacking you. If you continue to get attacked and stay in your own lands.. it's only a matter of time till you get to unleash your hordes against an excommunicated faction. So as a rule of thumb, always be nice to catholics factions unless they're excommunicated... and then crush them without mercy as quickly as you can.
You can attack even if you have been worned by pope if your stending is high enough. Any problem with the pope appart from excommunication can be dealt with gold. From my experience as Venece I remember being a pope favourit than beckstabing Milan by taking Genua and besieging Milan. Next turn I get a "cease hostilities or possibly be exomunicated" message from Rome, so I ignore it and assault Milan taking them out of the game. My pope meeter goes from all crosses to four crosses but 5000 gold (out of about 12000 taken from Milan) made it go sky high again and I am still only ally pope has. If you want to behave agressivly and sill be popes darling just pay him a lot.