A must to exterminate now and then?

[Musashi]

Garnier: I've held the holy land before. It's not hard, even with a crusade being called on turn ten I pulled it off. But I had prepared ahead of time. I sent my very first priest to the holy land on turn one... and every turn after that I kept producing more priests and sending them (Until I hit my priest cap). By the time my crusade army arrived the target zone was 60% catholic.

[lobo76]

there is something wrong if you have problem converting pple in the holy land. In the first place, the most prudent thing to do was to send stacks of priests to the holy land for 'training'. How else can you dominate the 'pope' quickly?

When my first crusade in my Spain campaign was called, i had 1 stack (each stack = 4 priests) already there, and another 4 in my boat with the army.