Quote Originally Posted by CaesarAgustus
That's sort of hard to do when it's early game and you're strained for cash and troops........and your existing armies have better things to do than wait aound Rome for the Pope to come back.
That's why I go somewhere else for a while before attacking the Papal States.Even then I usually let him have Rome back and then come back later and crush him. Its a vicious cycle.I hope it doesn't pop up in MTWII. The Pope is just so annoyng (Why can't he just go away like the Senate in RTW).