Quote Originally Posted by Primative1
Thanks for the replies guys;

1: HRE declared war on my a few years back & attacked one of my provinces. I gave him a beating on my own turf and next turn my relationship with the pope nosedived. He was more popular with the pope than I so I reckon that was it.

2: I'm currently trying to fight off 4 factions and am in the farcical position of having to allow the danes' ships to land armies in Britain 'cos to intercept them gets me excommed!!!

3: I did use assassins extensively early in the game but now I just concentrate on killing ai assassins. I thought a successful assassination was undetected by ai faction anyhow. I only use thieves to protect my cities & to act as mobile watchtowers. I usually ransom prisoners and sack cities, as this is was the way things were done historically.

4: Yep, this has definately happened at least twice. 7-4 and 5-4 wins for my guys resulted in a hostile 4 vote cardinal becoming pope.

5: Are there any good mods out there? I've seen as much of vanilla as I can stomach. I like a long game, EB is my fave mod (roll on EB2) for Rome.
1. It could be that HRE had an alliance with the Pope or you did something else that turn to piss him off.

2. You can attack any other faction too, but eventually you're relations will go down. They probably haven't been as aggressive as you and probably never fought for too long before.

3. Sacking cities I think will slowly bring down your reputation as will not helping you allies from their enemies or breaking alliances even if done so indirectly.

4. I never head of this bug before, maybe take a screenshot of it next time?