Quote Originally Posted by NodachiSam
By the way, I now have an inquisitor that with roast a pope status but the new guys are just as stubborn as the old in a mere ceasefire. I'm not asking them anything unreasonable after all!
I have had two inquisitors busying themselves for some years now, with one 5 star and one 4 star, gaining most of those frying members of the Sicilian re-emergence in Naples. The Pope's two Inquie's were in permanent residence their, failing to gain a single star while mine popped in and out for their fry-ups. Eventually, zeal dropped to 30% and I had to move on. Surprisingly, the Papal loyalists in Rome provided the richest seam of low piety stack leaders. He has lost so many Acumen 4/5 King's of Rome in a row that all he has left are acumen 2/3 duffers and he's stopped even bothering to appoint a gov! They get a +1 command for the title but he's learning his lesson. No stars gained for my 4* fryer but that may have to wait for his 32nd victim... heh heh!

Curiously, both of mine get a zero % chance of frying faction leaders, the Pope included (but he's piety 6 and the drop-off for piety above 2 seems to be quite steep). What rating is your Pope-fryer?

Incidentally, I may have made a clumsy move, in the push for Inquisition victims. I fried an English target, in Navarre and the screeny I took makes it look like he was a Rank 4 general. This seems to have pulled the cork, metaphorically, from the Pyrenees bottleneck. Shortly afterwards, the Almohads broke through and the English King ended up captured and killed. Not long before that, the English had eliminated the Spanish re-emergence and maybe hadn't recovered troop numbers yet. Taking valour boost off their troops gave the Almos the edge, perhaps. I also fried their Acumen 9 Earl of Wessex and Lord Great Chamberlain, so their economy took a hit too. Interestingly, I finally got a ceasefire offer from them, after maybe a century of being at war and I accepted, in the hope of getting North Sea Trade started up (I finally got a keep built in Saxony after considering it safe enough to build there again, following the Danes whipping their behinds).

I may pay for this in a few years time. The Almos have a Citadel.... in Portugal, of all places!! How many years rebellion-free to get that done??? Oh, and another one in Valencia, so they're obviously not short of a bob or two. (I'm still skint). Meanwhile, the Turk tide is coming from the other direction (but the Horde should arrive when I play the next turn).

So, I'm looking to be squashed in a vice and I'm in a bind since the Almos' ports make up the better part of my meagre trade income.

Gah! I've digressed badly. That waffle belongs in the HRE Headache thread.

To get us back on track, I'll repeat the question - what rating is your Pope-fryer?