-Use Crusades in a high catholic zeal era to drain your future enemies' power. If you are, say, English, and French have amassed troops on your border, send a crusade through and it will take many of their troops.
-Joining your Faction Leader into a crusade zeroes his influence!
-I believe that spies can lower loyalty just to a limit. I had 6 spies (all 3 star) in a province, and somewhere around 12 cath bishops (it was an Almohad province). The loyalty never went below 95% on very low taxatation.
-A good strategy is to ask for hand of a foreign princess and then slaughter her entire male family with grand inquisitors, I've done it numerous times. But make sure you move your inquisitors, because inquisition, when started, halves the catholic zeal. Also make sure that you kill heirs first, and faction leader last.
-Once your faction leader becomes a good steward, don't upgrade farms until he's succeeded. Also, don't try to promote faction leader with steward/builder traits if he's too old.
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