Quote Originally Posted by acemutha
Btw I was Moor and it was enough a super trained assassin to repeately killing the pope. I also think that if you leave him few turns alive he might get an army.
but it's not confirmed.

In my Moorish campaign, he just sat there outside of Rome. I kept whacking him with armies. After one of the many Popes died, I just left him alone. He never got an army stack, just a couple of units. He just stood there and did nothing. It got tiring killing him off. I was trying to be a "good" Muslim, but ended up with an untrustworthy rep as I kept eliminating Christian factions who started wars with me. I made it all the way to Poland by the end of the game. Granted that's not a great accomplishment on this board but I wanted to slowly develop the economy etc..