That Crazy Pope

[derF]

The Papacy is the most annoying enemy.

It has never occurred to me that the pope has gone on such a conquest. I am sick of playing as Catholic factions because sooner or later you WILL get excommed, whether youre at war or not.

As a result, my battles against the papacy are extra brutal.

[RobertTheBruce1]

It has come to my mind that the Pope is just a power-hungry guy who likes to excomm people. Whenever I play as any faction and kill or capture the Pope and the Papacy I have trouble controlling them. The Pope always rises up and attacks me, and if he dies another one takes his place. For this reason I have more troops in the heart of my territory than elsewhere

[derF]

It has come to my mind that the Pope is just a power-hungry guy who likes to excomm people.

Youve just defined the Church as a whole.

[Ayachuco]

Sounds just like my Warrior Pope Leo VI in the year 1269.
I mean he was conquering like crazy, he conquered the HRE in about 17 years a reverse operation Barbarossa
I was the Danes and my vikings were not strong enough to kill the Pope and his royal knights in the battle of Bradenburg.
So I resulted to intrugue and sent my spies to discover his secret vices and discovered he was an alcoholic talk about the decline of the Church.
After humilating him , i assasinated him with my best assasin and then came the resurgent HRE except they remerge in Italy.
And with the help of Conad III, we were able to defeat the papal empire.

[Alexandr III. Biges]

Congratulations :)

Sounds just like my Warrior Pope Leo VI in the year 1269.
I mean he was conquering like crazy, he conquered the HRE in about 17 years a reverse operation Barbarossa
I was the Danes and my vikings were not strong enough to kill the Pope and his royal knights in the battle of Bradenburg.
So I resulted to intrugue and sent my spies to discover his secret vices and discovered he was an alcoholic talk about the decline of the Church.
After humilating him , i assasinated him with my best assasin and then came the resurgent HRE except they remerge in Italy.
And with the help of Conad III, we were able to defeat the papal empire.

[Sensei Warrior]

Welcome to the Forum Draconian. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy when someone makes their first post on one of my topics. Actually I think its the first topic I ever started.

Yes beware of Popes that wear funny hats they do crazy things like that when you're not looking. Unfortunately in my scenario my Pope got the best of me. I am glad you managed to smack him around, especially with the hidden vice thing. Very nice.

[Ash]

Maybe it's because I always start in Early, but in 90% of the game the Pope does Jack Shit and just sits there annoying me with excommunications.

Only if Italy falls in civil war do they pop out of Rome.