Inquisitors

[TheWingedVictory]

The situation is much different. My empire was already a catholic faction, and I had no rebellion against me, but rather when other factions came to the provcince, they rebelled against them and gave the control to me. Also, it's impossible for crusade to go through my provinces because 1)all catholic factions have been conquered except for me 2)my empire was located the far west so no crusade would need to pass my territories unless they are launching a crusade at my territory.

[MuseRulez]

The situation is much different. My empire was already a catholic faction, and I had no rebellion against me, but rather when other factions came to the provcince, they rebelled against them and gave the control to me. Also, it's impossible for crusade to go through my provinces because 1)all catholic factions have been conquered except for me 2)my empire was located the far west so no crusade would need to pass my territories unless they are launching a crusade at my territory.

Newly conquered provinces rebel for a few reasons:
- Religion: If the province has the same religion as you it is less likely to rebel.
Also a high zeal province is more likely to rebel, but only if religions
don't match or if you are excommed.
- Army size: the bigger the garrison the less chance of rebellion.
- Governor: A governor with low zeal, low dread, only a few stars and bad
vices will have trouble with controlling a high zeal province.
There are other factors like proximity of your leader, number of years ruled by an other faction etc.

[Budwise]

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]

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]

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]

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)