destroying papal state

[Ars Moriendi]

I've heard mention that the pope hordes when eliminated. Was the reappearance consistent with the horde mechanic? (Star on the map, "people in flight" message, etc.)

I don't recall anything like this - all I remember is my "WTF?" moment, 1-2 turns after the battle for Rome when I spotted the new pope talking a stroll around Latium...

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@diotavelli : Your post prompted me to do some quick reading on Julius II - it appears that he was indeed one hell of a pope (pardon my unholly expression:)

"He became known as "the warrior pope" and "il papa terribile", and worked hard to restore and preserve the Papal States and led military efforts to hold off the encroaching forces of France. When defecting cardinals threatened another schism, he called the Fifth Lateran Council, and overturned another military coup with the help of Swiss troops."

[gardibolt]

The Pope behaves a lot like a horde when he has no lands, but there's no message about a people in flight. If you killed the Pope, there's just a new message that there's a new Pope. The manual makes it quite clear that you can't eliminate him, and no one has been successful at doing so AFAIK. I expect that the game mechanics may require him to work properly, though I don't know if people have been able to mod the Pope out of the game altogether.

[zstajerski]

There is only one way top destroy the pope, take out all other christians first, and then the pope himself...
the college of cardinals will eb empty and no new pope will ever sit on that chair again...

although the papal states do not dissaper form diplomacy