How to up piety stats.

[mfberg]

Take your king on the crusade! Take all your troops on your crusade to Volga-Bulgaria and leave no garrisons. Let the rest of your provinces rot. The challenge is to start with your troops in the backwoods of Russia and make a new kingdom for yourself. After all your rebellions you will have no income until you take a few decent lands, low influence, decent piety, and the Mongols (if you choose the Volga-Bulgaria Region as your new homeland) will make things a little harder when they come with armies much larger than yours.

mfberg

[IrishMike]

Another thing that I have found to help is just spam churches or mosque into all your provinces. Then go on a world wide conversion quest. I did this with the eggy's once. Had Kings with 5-7 piety regulary. Crusades do help to, but i'm not to big of a crusade fan unless I put the troops in the Crusades.

[Hold Steady]

Take your king on the crusade! Take all your troops on your crusade to Volga-Bulgaria and leave no garrisons. Let the rest of your provinces rot. The challenge is to start with your troops in the backwoods of Russia and make a new kingdom for yourself. After all your rebellions you will have no income until you take a few decent lands, low influence, decent piety, and the Mongols (if you choose the Volga-Bulgaria Region as your new homeland) will make things a little harder when they come with armies much larger than yours.

mfberg

Yeah, plan to get there, say, 1228!