Quote Originally Posted by Ciaran
It tends to put you on good terms with the pope, as it would seem, so he gives out his 1,000 florin gifts every now an then.

On this campaign it seems that every crusade I launched (3 of them) came with a mail in rebate. I'd give the florins to the pope to secure his blessing and the next turn I'd gat 1000 back from him. My best smashing expedition was the last game I played as the English all the other factions were cowering in fear from the huge Turkish empire but I realized that they were concentrating all their building in Anatolia and Constantinople. I led 3 army stacks on an expedition from Antioch to Lithuania destroyed 20 Turkish army stacks and netted 150,000 florins from destrying everything and getting ransoms. After that they had the empire and the land but no industry. The other factions were quick to grasp the implications and the Turks were beaten back from the gates of Vienna. It was all in all quite glorious.

BrSpiritus