Has anybody every tried this?

**Goofball** · 01-20-2007, 00:28

Gifting one of your provinces to the Pope while it is under siege by another Catholic faction?

I'm thinking of giving it a try when I get home. Will it work?

**Carl** · 01-20-2007, 00:49

I doubt it even if he's your ally.

**sapi** · 01-20-2007, 02:30

You can't give away provinces that are under siege.

**TevashSzat** · 01-20-2007, 02:52

sapi is right, you cant give away provinces under siege

**zstajerski** · 01-23-2007, 23:42

yeah , no sieged provinces can be given to other factions

and eaven when you give the pope a province your relations with him plummet to abysmal

**IsItStillThere** · 01-24-2007, 00:46

yeah , no sieged provinces can be given to other factions
and eaven when you give the pope a province your relations with him plummet to abysmal

Just a tip: when you gift a province to the pope or anybody else, make sure you remove all military units from it FIRST. Otherwise, you will get the "your army is on my land" diplomatic penalty.

**caius britannicus** · 01-26-2007, 17:55

Originally Posted by zstajerski

yeah , no sieged provinces can be given to other factions

and eaven when you give the pope a province your relations with him plummet to abysmal

Thats never happened to me. In my sicily campaign I gifted the entire mid-east to the pope. My standing with him sky rocketed (I even gifted it to him with the garrisons still in the cities in some cases). The nice part was that they established Jerusalem as their new capital and I was able to take rome from rebels that went against the pope (large distance no garrison). He asked for it back, but I couldn't give up my position in italy so I kept it. The drop wasn't significant so it worked out great.