Becoming the Pope

[Rhyfelwyr]

Just wondering, do you get any extra power if one of your Cardinals is elected as Pope? I suppose he goes to Rome and becomes the faction leader. Do you get control over Papal provinces, and get to excommunicate factions etc?

[Sir Boo]

Unfortunaty know you jsut get very liked by the pope thats reely it :D. Though your thoughts do soun d much cooler...

[Warluster]

And he lets you attack other nations sometime, I have had my Cardinal elected Pope about 5-8 times!

[Ares]

Just wondering, do you get any extra power if one of your Cardinals is elected as Pope? I suppose he goes to Rome and becomes the faction leader. Do you get control over Papal provinces, and get to excommunicate factions etc?

Unfortunately, no. All you get is that the pope will favor you more, but don't entirely count on that either, because even a pope from your own faction can end up hating you rather easily.

I wish you could excommunicate people and stuff. That'd be cool.

[Skott]

Having your Cardinal on the Pontif chair is a good thing. He'll let you get away with a bit more than if he wasnt from your faction. You can use that to your advantage. I love controlling the Papacy whenever I can.

[Warluster]

I have a mdo about the Pope we're you can excommunicate people,use inquisters stuff which the Pope does, you can even control the actual Pope, check it out, next version has new units,sttkements!

[Derfasciti]

Psshh! I got my cardinal elected, not even deliberately, and he loved me for like 10 turns or whatever. But then he told me to stop attacking the Scots or I'd be excommunicated... needless to say I got excommunicated!

[sapi]

sapi's guide to getting elected as Milan

Turn 1:
Empty your garrison armies and move towards florence

Turn 2:
Merge armies and march to the southern end of florence (the province)

Turn 3:
Smash the Papal State's army (the one without the pope in it), and get excommunicated in the process.

Turn 4:
Attack the remanents of the army you defeated last turn, which should be in reinforcement range of Rome.
Also, fight off the inevitible moorish/sicilian seabourne landing

Turn 5:
Take Rome and execute the pope.

Turns 6-?:
Kill every new pope that is elected until your cardinal is.

Simple ;)

NB: I take no responsibility for being attacked by all of the Christian world - after all, how else are you going to find an excuse to burn their cities to the ground and execute their troops?

[Arkatsson]

Lol the Pope is going to die again and again.

[Hellenic_Hoplite]

what I usually do to gain favour with the pope is keep giving him "gifts" (AKA bribing him) of about 500 florins until me relations with him is perfect or near perfect needles to say I have been dominating the other catholic factions and the pope just looks the other way or excommunicates them.

[Warluster]

Yes! I just got about 7 cardinals in the college!And my relations with the Pope (My Spanish Pope,Im playing Spain) are 'Outstanding', I did that woithout gifts! WHOA!

[katank]

@ Warluster, what campaign difficulty is that on?