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    Default Re: How to best use priests?

    If you get the chance try to get a Theologians Guild, they help out with priests.Cathederal + Theologian HQ = Cardinal instantly(assuming there is an open position). Once I did that and the pope died the next turn, since I had majority of the college I voted him in.

    A 28 year old pope, hah.

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    Mojito maker Member Jimmytwohand's Avatar
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    Default Re: How to best use priests?

    I have found the best way to use them is to scatter a few around your home empire to combat religious unrest and then send groups of 3 or 4 out to the holy land. As someone has already said this converts a region very quickly and gives them nice bonuses. You also get some heretics springing up around 80% catholic conversion which gives another +1 piety boost to the lucky one holding the matches. I have also found that having a cathedral or huge cathedral to recruit from boosts your priests much more than a theologians guild. They start off as 4/5/6 piety instantly. A huge cathedral and a theologians guild in the same city is basically a pope factory.

    I normally reserve heretics for my upper echelon cardinals to boost them into the preferati or give a high level priest a boost ready to become a cardinal. That instant plus one bonus really helps.

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    I wanna be a real boy! Member chunkynut's Avatar
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    Default Re: How to best use priests?

    After I built a Cathedral and then recruited a priest, he was no longer a priest but a Bishop. It's also my the city with the Theologians Guild HQ so all priests get a nice bous there but this guy is a totally different agent, described as 'Bishop' and looks different ... but does the same thing as a priest.

    Do they have the same trait as cardinals, where they can't lose a heresy trial and become and heretic?

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    Default Re: How to best use priests?

    Bishops are just priests with the "bishop" trait, they arent a completely different agent (although they get their own model).

    just like cardinals are just priests with the cardinal trait.

    I actually send my priests in before I take the provence, a few priests, spy and assassin.

    Spy invades city, and the assassin hits the church first and then any +order buildings, priests move in and convert the populace to christendom.

    That usually gets the city fairly "unrestful" and a fair few times has caused a full on riot kicking out the muslim owners, at that point I can move in and "save" the populace from their islamic tyrants. Leave a couple of priests to bring it up to the 90%+ christianity bracket while everyone else moves on.

    Do it right and I dont even have to go to war with the faction i'm invading!

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    Default Re: How to best use priests?

    I would be very careful to recommend my way as general advice.

    My unintentional master plan to get cardinals went as follows:

    1. I produced 5 priests because there were heretics nearby.

    2. All priests failed to burn the heretics (which personally makes me glad). 3 of my priests became heretics themself.

    3. My 2 remaining priests sat down doing nothing.

    4. Later I was excommunicated because I had forgotten to obey a papal order for ceasefire (it was just a mistake but I did'nt want to reload because I had won some decisive battles in the meantime)

    5. Some turns after excommunication one of my priests was made cardinal.

    Working as intended.
    The queen commands and we'll obey
    Over the Hills and far away.
    (perhaps from an English Traditional, about 1700 AD)

    Drum, Kinder, seid lustig und allesamt bereit:
    Auf, Ansbach-Dragoner! Auf, Ansbach-Bayreuth!
    (later chorus -containing a wrong regimental name for the Bayreuth-Dragoner (DR Nr. 5) - of the "Hohenfriedberger Marsch", reminiscense of a battle in 1745 AD, to the music perhaps of an earlier cuirassier march)

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    Default Re: How to best use priests?

    Best way is to send them where your religion is low and to execute heretics.

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