I guess spurred on my EYG's HRE thread I started a HRE game a little while ago. I began in high and only on normal GA.
Anyways, I used to be allied with the Pope and even crusaded against my former but excomunnicated ally the French. It was their choice to abandon our alliance by way of a alliance triangle. He helped defend one of my provinces and we were good buddies in that two zealous, ruthless, intollerant dictators who had ambitions to reunite all of the old Roman empire under a single government (secular and sectarian respectively) kind of way.![]()
I don't remember how exactly but the two of us went to war. He attacked me after unallying when he saw an opportunity or I was excommunicated and we we neutral or some sort of combination and I ended up taking Rome and the Papal states. I put lots of soldiers in Rome and left the Papal States fairly empty but the vast majority of his men showed up in Rome anyways so I decided to leave it to him since it meant guarding fewer provinces.
It has been a long time since we've fought, I'm no longer excomunicated, and I really want to crusade but he will not accept a truce despite my persistance. I have a bishop who has been bringing the subject up for years and now a cardinal but no dice. He really holds a grudge.I do have inquisitors leveling up on his generals by the way, would this affect it? Do you guys have any suggestions?
Here is what the map looks like right now, sorry that this shot doesn't include all of Italy. I have recently taken Kiev and need to fight off a huge turkish invasion force that took advantage of me finally losing my ship in the black sea. Another one has taken its place so if I win it, it will be a massive blow to them since they'll lose a heck of a lot of routers or get a big ransom because they have some valuable governers.
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