Witches and Hertics, Questions?

[Tran]

That's true if you're dealing with low-level wretched heretics, but when it comes to high-level heretic there's always 50% chance your priest will turn into heretic as well, 50% others are either successfully denounce them or they failed but managed to survive and then there's possibility getting bad trait such as 'Poor Prosecutor'. Assassin however can never turn heretic...

[Ciaran]

Yes, but they can - and do - die by the droves. Been there, seen it. I had level 8 assassins get killed by level 2 heretics, and not just the oddball one.
While I think it is perfectly all right that some figures should be hard to assassinate, there are others where I wish this were not so. Heck, a maxed out assassin has only a meagre 20% chance against an Inquisitor, units like priests, merchants and perhaps other assassins (in RTW - not BI though, a zero-skill assassin has 95 % against a maxed-out one, but the hard thing is actually finding them. But once you did, at least you got rid of the bastards) should be soft targets.

[zverzver]

I am 99% sure that cardinals are immune to heresy. Use your cardinals to take out high level heretics.

[Tran]

Yeah, that's true for Cardinal but heretics can appear anywhere, sure you can denounce them but look, you're not going to travel half-way across the map to denounce a single heretic, aren't you? At least that's not how I play. Okay, you might have several cardinals, but what are the odd chance of having many of your priests selected as cardinals...well maybe, if you can take out enemy cardinals...wait, you need to kill them...with assassin! You still need assassin!

Anyway, those priests are walking slow, try to compare them with assassin, assassin has greater walking distance, and therefore can take out targets quicker and more importantly, unseen by enemy. Let's assume you use priest and failed then turned heretic, now you have more troubles to deal with.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway. And no, I'm not anti-priest, don't accuse me of being heretic

[HoreTore]

It's very easy to get all, or at least almost, of the cardinals. Just recruit every single priest you can, send them to a province where they can convert people(ie. below 50% or so catholic), and wait for the other cardinals to die of age. If you have a good standing with the pope, he should appoint your priests. Electing allied cardinals to new popes helps too.

[Musashi]

Yeah... Cardinals are selected based primarily on piety. If you have super high piety priests, they will become cardinals when a cardinal dies. Since the AI doesn't use it's priests well, it's easy to have the highest piety around... I've had darn near the whole college belonging to me more than once... With all my cardinals having maxed out or nearly maxed out piety.

With that many cardinals it's relatively easy to deal with witches and heretics.