destroying the papacy

[Oaty]

I'm playing my first campaign as a non catholic(russia) and was wondering what happens when you take Rome. Does a horde show up or does he reemerge or basically nothing.

[Lancome]

Its the same... only dif is that you dont have the pope to boss you around.

[LadyAnn]

Lancome, Russia is Orthodox, it ignored the Pope all the time. I believe the Horde still show up regardless.

Annie

[Monsieur Alphonse]

No horde only a lonely pope (general and bodyguard). I play the Moors in my current campaign. I first had an alliance with the pope and with almost every one. I was very popular until I became to powerful and had Italians as my neighbors. You simply can't trust those pizza salesmen . I am now full controllinf all of Italy and the pope has no more cities. I have a special hunting party ready to kill him. He first showed up near Tunis a couple of times which gave me free adoptions (generals)every time I killed him. He now hangs around near Rome and I kill him occasionally to train my camel gunners .

[Oaty]

Thank you Monsieur Alphonse. Thats the answer I was looking for. So it takes a catholic faction or the human player to gift him a city to have land back. I was hoping it wasnt likle medieval 1 where he came back with stacks of armies.

[Gaiseric]

Just tried this, thought that I would post it here:

I Played as Sicily in Lands to Conquer and was unable to destroy the Papacy. Like the posters above said, if you take Rome the Papacy will still exist as a unit outside of the city. If you destroy the Papal Unit another one will spawn, as another cardinal is elected Pope. I kept attacking the Papal unit each time it was spawned. When the college of cardinals got down to 2, I was unable to attack the papal unit anymore. A red X appeared when I moved my unit in to attack, which was dissapointing. I am pretty sure that I wouldn't have been able to assasinate the Pope either.

Does anyone else know how to destroy the Papacy completley, either as a catholic or non-catholic faction?