The Popes a bit of an expansionist in my game...

[unseen11]

Playing as France it's about turn 1220 and I've noticed in my war with Spain and Venice that the Pope has not only taken over the city of Florence but he has also sent an expedition across the sea to take over the 2 Spanish provinces Valencia and the other rebel one.

Now this kind of annoys me because even though I've destroyed Milan and Denmark and crippled England, HRE, Spain and sent Venice into exile me and the Papacy are the best of friends (mainly due to me having 8 seats out of the college :P) but the last thing I want is him getting in the way of my conquests of Continental Europe, mainly Iberia (havent bothered with Crusading cause I like keeping my Faction heirs close to home)

So I'm wondering if theres anyway with or without modding to change the popes behaviour and make him stay where he belongs in Rome

[SadCat]

Only thing that came to mind is were is he getting the $ from? Are you bribing him? It appears that if he is not near bankrupt he may expand. SadCat

[Budwise]

Playing as France it's about turn 1220 and I've noticed in my war with Spain and Venice that the Pope has not only taken over the city of Florence but he has also sent an expedition across the sea to take over the 2 Spanish provinces Valencia and the other rebel one.

Now this kind of annoys me because even though I've destroyed Milan and Denmark and crippled England, HRE, Spain and sent Venice into exile me and the Papacy are the best of friends (mainly due to me having 8 seats out of the college :P) but the last thing I want is him getting in the way of my conquests of Continental Europe, mainly Iberia (havent bothered with Crusading cause I like keeping my Faction heirs close to home)

So I'm wondering if theres anyway with or without modding to change the popes behaviour and make him stay where he belongs in Rome

Sorry to rant but quit yer bitchin.

So many times I wanted to go up against an UberPope and every time he sits docile and doesn't move. I think that this will add to the challenge of the campaign and I think you should look up to it because so far, you steamrolled everything else.

[unseen11]

Sorry to rant but quit yer bitchin.

So many times I wanted to go up against an UberPope and every time he sits docile and doesn't move. I think that this will add to the challenge of the campaign and I think you should look up to it because so far, you steamrolled everything else.

lol hey fair enough man, I just like to roll play it a bit some times and seeing the pope expand was just weird at first and his armies arent that great lol, no full stacks or anything. He must of paid for them on my dime hehe

[Patricius]

I don't think the Papal and Swiss Guards can be raised in a Papal province outside Italy thereby limiting the danger. Sometimes it expands, sometimes not. Usually once they take Florence, they stop. They seem a normal faction unlike the Senate of RTW. Other factions can attack them, as I discovered when I tried to place my Middle Eastern provinces with them. The Egyptians took them quickly and without fuss.

[sirnoob]

hey there was a thread a while back with the popes empire as big as the players i'll try to get a link. herehttps://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=86245

[predaturd]

thats nothing the pope once conquered all of europe and i was left as the egytptians with starting settlemetns after being beaten down by turks then the big man himself creating a new army for the man in the big hat and he got rid of the turks then wnet after russians by which time i had africa so it was the poep vs africa then i needed a haven to hide form his amrys first thought was america but the damn pope was a heretic and said the world is round and so went to the other side and i had nowhere to hide i got crushed and thats the story of the pope having control of the whole world
do i win anything for most aggresive poep?