Inquisitors

**Ayachuco** · 05-11-2005, 14:49

I have been playing for 2 years now and I still do not know how to use Inquisitors. What makes a person a good target for an Inquisitor and which province is at risk for an inquisition. Do they quell rebellions or do they start new ones...any input on the subject is appreciated.

**Organ Grinder** · 05-11-2005, 14:57

I've never really used them either, but looking from the reverse, inquisitors from other factions in my lands always reduce morale and loyalty. Most recently, I had just got a recently acquired territory up to about 130% after a few years of low taxes etc and then along came a Papal Inquisitor and in one turn, the loyalty dropped to 103%. I had the inquisitor assassinated and loyalty started to creep up again.

I am planning on using some myself as soon as I get the requisite upgrade to allow creating them and will deploy them in neighbouring Catholic territories along with spies in order to try to promote rebellions.

**King Edward** · 05-11-2005, 14:58

Inquisitors are Burning targets with low piety. just look out for enemy Generals with no Piety and set your inquisitors on him, and bring a bag of marshmellows along!

The also raise the Zeal in the provinces they occupy so are good for paving the way for crusades. But be careful if you leave them in a provice too long they start killing the populus causing the zeal to plummet which will make your crsades dissapear quicker than an ice cream cone in the desert.

PS Welcome to the org

**Zarax** · 05-11-2005, 14:59

Inquisitors can be used to

1) Burn enemy generals (and thus kill them, this also increases Zeal)

2) Burn enemy kings/heirs (requires a grand inquisitor)

3) lower zeal (leave them a few years in a place, they will start burning the population)

I never noticed any significant change in loyalty with inquisitors so i don't know how effective they might be...

**Matty** · 05-11-2005, 15:06

I've never actually managed to burn anyone I've targetted - one of my generals got the 'secret athiest' vice of -8 piety after one inquisitorial nagging too much and the enemy generals ended up 'beating' the inquisition and becoming more pious. Even the grand inquisitor didn't do anything. Now I just leave them in enemy territory and watch the inquisition get out of control and thousands of Spaniards get put to the sword. Which is obviously a good thing. Can they burn Muslims?

**Zarax** · 05-11-2005, 15:14

Originally Posted by Matty

I've never actually managed to burn anyone I've targetted - one of my generals got the 'secret athiest' vice of -8 piety after one inquisitorial nagging too much and the enemy generals ended up 'beating' the inquisition and becoming more pious. Even the grand inquisitor didn't do anything. Now I just leave them in enemy territory and watch the inquisition get out of control and thousands of Spaniards get put to the sword. Which is obviously a good thing. Can they burn Muslims?

Use a grand inquisitor and look for low piety/low command generals, after a few successful burning you'll get a kingslayer which will allow you to eradicate any royal that might give you problems.

**Procrustes** · 05-11-2005, 16:14

They can't burn Muslim or Orthodox generals, but they do preach so they act kinda like a bishop - increasing the portion of the populance that is Catholic.

An inquisitor's chances of a successful trial are much greater in provinces with high zeal - you can have trouble burning even a very non-pious general if he is sitting in a province with no zeal; and you will have a much better chance of burning anyone if the province has high zeal.

If you are crusading, it's generally a good idea to use an inquisitor or two to keep the zeal up in the provinces you will be traveling through - it will reduce the number of men that go AWOL and increase the number of new troops that join the crusade.

EDIT - BTW, I find that inquisitors can really unbalance the game by letting you burn all the best enemy generals - I tend to severely restrict my use of them in order to keep the fun going.

**Zarax** · 05-11-2005, 16:17

Basing on the prod files inquisitors doesn't spread catholicism, they just have an influence on zeal...
About burning, keep trying... The more you'll try the more zeal will rise without burning the population...

**Yoyoma1910** · 05-11-2005, 15:09

As I recall, they're good at paving the way for crusades, increasing zeal in provences, so that you pick up a bunch of troops. Or, if a crusade is coming your way from another nation, you can leave them in there for a while, which will decrease zeal and cause their crusades to fall apart.

**Budwise** · 06-04-2005, 09:09

HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.

First, build a peasant unit and an inquisitor.

use the inquisitor to burn (Thats what I call a Trial - conviction - execution of a general) the peasant general per turn for a while.

Eventually, you have what I call a King Killer with all the valour you will get from killing Peasants.

Start Buring Kings, Princes, Popes, Hitlers, whatever until mass rebellions due to no king.

Also good for killing popes.

Best thing of all, if you fail, your Inquitor doesn't die.

**lilljonas** · 06-04-2005, 10:09

Or, if you don't want to use wild exploits, you just send your inquisitor to burn any catholic enemy general with command stars. You'll quickly get nasty inquisitors anyway, but you don't have to burn your own trooper.

But then, methodically burning enemies with inquisitors is kind of an exploit anyway, since it makes the game ridiculously easy. ;)

**antisocialmunky** · 06-04-2005, 13:01

Inquisitors become victims of their own sucess. No more Cathies equals no more purpose. Though... Orthodoxed and Muslims aren't a challenge unless you cound 9 star Byz or JHI(though the AI doesn't use them often).

**Betito** · 06-05-2005, 14:04

Well, inquisitors are not that useful really. Its WAY better to use Grand Inquisitors. They take 2 turns to train, IIRC, but they can be some really nasty heir killers
If you train them well enough, they will have 50%chance to kill a heir, not to mention that if they fail, you can always try next year(unlike assasins)