Quote Originally Posted by askthepizzaguy
Most Catholic nations have a similar edge that the Muslims have.

If anyone saw my England* thread, they knew how many Saints I made out of typical generals.

Here's how you use that:

Spam your empire into a growth spurt militarily, conquer plenty of provinces, and then start promoting captains into family members.

Get about 10 of these fine young chaps (most typically have good chivalry anyway, and loyalty... and other nice features...) and then get his Hatness to declare a Crusade against the nearest city to your empire.

Capture the target with all 10 of your generals in the stack that takes the city, and each of those 10 generals gets "the crusader" or "the saint".

Now plant them in all your backwater motte and baileys and watch your empire boom.

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*https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=87236
The difference is that Catholics have to cross the whole world to get to their target. Turks can do the same by declaring Jihad against a hamlet next door.