I am playing the Papacy just to see if the Almos or Eggys dominated the scene... again... I am STILL allied to a strong Byz, and I was allied to the Almos

Guess what....

The Almos...

So The Almos controlled all of Africa, Spain and France and were starting to invade Italy and the UK

When the collapsed, poof, no more heirs, so all those extremely highly trained, very agressive rebel stacks with good generals to now fight..:P

So as the Pope, I took out Sardinia, Corsica, Almost united Italy and now took North Africa and saw the Turks have Eggyland...

so at 1211, I am looking in 10 more years to start launching troops into Spain and reconquering those lands ... for me

I am wary so I am keeping full stacks in each conquered prov and keeping taxes at very low since I don't want a civil war again..:P
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So questions

1) What do you guys do with the Pope

2) The rebels are extremely tough, in fact the Venetians tried to take France/Aragon and the rebels threw them off.. each prov looks like it has 2 stacks each.. and with the ex-almos being the tech guy ALL game, I know those rebels are gonna be tough to beat

so in XL, I guess the AI plays the rebels very tough and capable?