Pope-o-meter interpretation

[Hosakawa Tito]

with your rating compared to theirs, it would be ok for you to attack them. if you say lay seige to bologna, you papal standing will not go down too much, if they retaliate they will be excommed.

You nailed that one Kartlos and Sapi. I camped an army just outside Bolognas' walls without attacking for one turn, no reaction from the Pope, my relationship with the HRE dropped from Good to Reasonable. Next turn I laid seige and built rams and seige towers, his Holiness had no comment, relations still perfect. I attacked next turn, kicked the HRE faction leader out of Italy. I released him and did not sack the city. I slipped the Pope a 1000 florins to bump my relations back to perfect. I lost a little trade money by being at war with the HRE, but now he'll have to cross the Alps to attack me, instead of stabbing me in the back from Bologna. My two crusade generals just took Antioch and sacked it for 16000 florins. I'm going to build a church & port, collect a little trade cash for a couple turns while half my forces sack Acre. Then I'll gift Antioch and Acre to the Pope. One general will take a boat ride to rebel Rhodes, take it, build it up for my primary target of Constantinople. The other general will continue along the coast of the Holy Land and sack Jerusalem, Gaza, Alexandria, etc.. as far as he can get. I'll gift what I can to the Pope.