Dealing with Inquisitors

[Warluster]

Well actually someone has already said that! Swordfish said that at post #15.

[Swordfish]

Well actually someone has already said that! Swordfish said that at post #15.

NeutralZone was quoting me to correct what I said; just didn't wrap quote tags around it. And I think he's right, it is "expects" not "suspects." My Monty Python collection doesn't include that bit yet, so I wasn't able to verify.

Though I'm still surprised the thread went as long as it did without someone making that joke.

Bit of a funny story though: Once when I was playing Medieval 1 )when you could make your own Inquisitors), I actually did have an Inquisitor from Spain in my territory (I was Denmark). That guy was tearing my armys apart too, just about every turn he was in my territory he had killed another general. I ignored him at first, figuring it would just blow over, but after he had pissed me off I went to see what country he was from, and nearly fell out of my seat when I saw it was Spain.

... Once I regained my composure, I promtly invaded them.

[Blademun]

Yeah, I think the Inquisitors are a random generated thing. :/

Oh well, I ended up just playing the moors. While I don't have to deal with Inqusitors, the wars are constant. Catholic Europe apparently didn't appreciate me taking Iberia/france..

I'd really like to see the monty python show that has the spanish inquisition gag in it. I've only seen a couple clips.

[Aaron A Aardvark]

I've lost maybe two family members to inquisitors in about four hundred turns as a Catholic. I just don't seem to get very many. (VH, before you ask.)

And, no I don't know what I'm doing differently from everyone else. It's a mystery.

[Deneldar]

I don't know if we're allowed to post direct links here but if you go to Youtube and search for 'python inquisition' you'll find a full 9min version of the 3 sections combined.

Oh and on the original point. Knife >>>>> back.

[Bakalov]

Actually you can kill inquisitors with your military, as you can do with all "agent" types - split your army and put a unit in all of the squares near the inquisitor, its a bit tricky to do it without pushing him, and after that move another unit into his square. With no safe land to retreat he will die.
You can use another unit to push him to a location which is more convenient for surrounding, near water for example.

If you "run" into him, and you cant do the surrond trick and dont want to cheat/reload, you could split your general from the army, and may be split some more units to block inquisitor's path to general.

[Ciaran]

The worst thing is, I was trying (mark the term "trying") to train up some assassins to handle the Inquisitors (a pain in the back in itself, every time my assassin gains a rank due to a sucessfull mission he loses it immediately by failing the next one . And there are no soft targets like the Assassins in RTW), what did the blasted wretch (maxed out, of course, so no-one can touch him) do? Burn my assassin, that´s what. Along with a whole bunch of random merchants (not one of mine, thanks God, those only fall prey to other merchants), generals, princesses and generally everything that moved around, even the odd priest, if I recall correctly.
How do I get up piety for my family members, so at least they have some chance against those pyromaniacs?

They would be a nice gimmick if one could decently get rid of them, but I can´t even send in my assassins on their meagre 5% chance (statistically, one out of twenty should suceed...) just to give it a try, since a killed assassin would kill my relations with the old man in Rome. Right now they´re a damn game killer for me.

[yezhanquan85]

Ok, here's my 2 cents worth.

1) When the guy with the strange hat appears, your general/agent RUNS. No excuses. If you walk up to him and he burns you, I think you're just asking for it.

2) The more guys these papal agents from hell burns, the more deadly they become. Their retinue of executioner + hunter of heretics trait line will make them living saints in no time.

3) As other fellows have mentioned, you can use the "surround with military units" method to kill him.

4) There's an incorrect component in the traits file which makes your generals spawn with 0 piety. All generals should start with 3 initially. Hope that buys you some protection.

[Moah]

Actually post official patch I've found these guys have vanished! In my first game as france the place was crawling with them. The official patch was supposed to tone them down.


This game, post patch, with the scots I can't actually remember seeing a single one! But I am allied with the pope and usually top ratings, but I haven't seen them anywhere else either. My advice is - get the offical CA patch!

[gardibolt]

Since getting the patch, I've seen 2 inquisitors spawn. One was on Corsica, which oddly enough was owned by the papal states. There's a heretic there, but the Inquisitor seems to show no interest in him; instead, he stands at the edge of the island longingly looking at my city across the water....

The other was in Gaza, a hotbed of hereticism, but he headed off towards Jerusalem and I've not seen him since.

[LordKhaine]

Inquisitors don't bother me that much, but there is no way that they should be able to kill your units when you're excommunicated :(

Seconded. Really annoying. And somewhat related but can't excommunicated factions still get cardinals? I'm sure I saw Hungary get a Pope elected despite them being excommunicated before the elections!

Though coming back to the problem at hand, I might add that the best way to avoid inquisitors is to avoid having high levels of heresy in your own lands. And for safety make sure your neighbours don't either! Otherwise inquisitors from their lands may end up wandering into your lands also.

[Moah]

Seconded. Really annoying. And somewhat related but can't excommunicated factions still get cardinals? I'm sure I saw Hungary get a Pope elected despite them being excommunicated before the elections!

Only your leader is excommunicated - and any who follow him go to hell. When Frederick 11 was excommunicated (three times, wihtout ever getting back in - now that takes talent!) he hired muslim mercs to fight for him as they didn't care. Which upset the pope even more. So he excommunicated him again...so Frederick..you get teh general idea.

You still rule your country but the people (who are good catholics) hate you (+20% unrest). Your Bishops still exist they just preach against you in church - urging the people to overthrow you etc... You can stil have cardinals who elect the pope, they just hate you. There were still priests in England after Henry v111 seceded. They preached against his heresy and the "traitors" in teh Anglican church.

[LordKhaine]

I just imagine the Monarch would be able to stop inquisitors openly going around his own lands killing his generals.

[heroic hungarian]

when the pope gets nasty rome must be destroyed and exterminated!!!!!!!!!!!