The Demise Of The Pope

**Vladimir** · 12-26-2006, 18:02

Originally Posted by macdaddy

I did something similiar completely by accident. :)

The pope died and a vote was called. I tried to buy someone elses votes, it didnt work, I clicked the check mark and somehow managed to exit the vote screen. This left the papacy VACANT. I continued to not call a vote until I had more cardinals and could guarantee one of my guys would get in, primarily because I wanted a crusade....

So once the pope dies, you can avoid him coming back so long as you have one cardinal and avoid voting for a faction.

Liberum veto for the Papacy!

**katank** · 12-26-2006, 19:16

Sweet. Abstaining == instant veto? You are going down, popesta

**Zenicetus** · 12-26-2006, 20:45

Speaking of the Pope's demise.... my game is going the complete opposite of Sapi's papal rampage, post-patch. Sicily has taken Rome and pushed the Papal States out of Italy. Their last remaining province is the island of Ajaccio (sp?), with a family member (not the Pope) holed up there. I can't find the Pope anywhere on the map, although he's still shown on the papal relations window. Must be hiding under a table somewhere.

**Sir Boo** · 12-28-2006, 18:22

I have to say it is interesting how the papal states action / conquest differs for everybody hmm i wonder why...

**mrmarquez** · 12-29-2006, 10:37

Originally Posted by Zenicetus

Speaking of the Pope's demise.... my game is going the complete opposite of Sapi's papal rampage, post-patch. Sicily has taken Rome and pushed the Papal States out of Italy. Their last remaining province is the island of Ajaccio (sp?), with a family member (not the Pope) holed up there. I can't find the Pope anywhere on the map, although he's still shown on the papal relations window. Must be hiding under a table somewhere.

He is near Rome... Sicily took Rome when they got excommunicated..probably 50th turn.

Since then Pope is near Rome..if I get excommed I just attack his bodyguard

**Zenicetus** · 12-29-2006, 17:57

Originally Posted by mrmarquez

He is near Rome... Sicily took Rome when they got excommunicated..probably 50th turn.

Since then Pope is near Rome..if I get excommed I just attack his bodyguard

Actually he showed up a turn later, on Ajaccio... his last province now. I had to sail my diplomat over there to keep up the bribery. So far, nobody else has shown up on the island, so maybe the AI doesn't know he's over there. It will be interesting to see if Sicily comes knocking on his door.

**Sir Boo** · 12-30-2006, 00:07

Its acutually surprisingly easy task to undertake (killing the pope). If your the HRE your land is right in the middle of the catholic countries therfore invading them and killing their cardinals is actually quite an easy task to undertake.

**sapi** · 12-29-2006, 13:32

The nice side of killing the pope, i find, is that when you win the campaign one of your own popes gets elected

**PureFodder** · 12-29-2006, 14:04

In my game the Pope dicided to go on a Rambo style amphibious Papal rampage at me. 1 Pope vs 1 Fortress, place your bets....

In the end the Pope tried to seige the fortress and got slaughtered by some peasants, which I felt was a rather fitting end for him.

**General Zhukov** · 12-29-2006, 14:13

Hey Purefodder it looks like Eqypt is doing pretty well in your game. I'm a big fan of Egypt. Did they manage to oust the Turks from Anatolia?

**PureFodder** · 12-29-2006, 14:21

Originally Posted by General Zhukov

Hey Purefodder it looks like Egypt is doing pretty well in your game. I'm a big fan of Egypt. Did they manage to oust the Turks from Anatolia?

They've done a great job of taking the entirety of the holy lands and have expanded all the way through Turkey and were last seen heading into Greece to fight the Hungarians. They left me entirely alone despite sharing a boarder for most of the game, but the Mongols are most likely giving them plenty of hassle now. Funny thing is, in my last game Egypt was the only faction to get destroyed by someone other than me.