OK, this is too funny

[Double A]

So, I'm England, its around turn 20, and I recently bought (!!!) Bologna from HRE. So, anyway, because I have Generic Luncheon Meat, I can see all the Neighbors, including still-rebel Florence. But it won't be for long. Guess why.

No, its not me! Its the POPE and his FULL STACK. so, if I can find my camera, and lay siege to Florence too, all you Catholic goody goodies will finally be able to see that funny hat.

[Wheelchair]

Camera?

PrintScreen, no?

[Double A]

Uhhhhhh, if you mean screenshot with the computer, no, becasue my Gameing computer isn't hooked up to the Internet yet, and I don't know how too.

So I did get pics of him, but he looks like any other general. Same bodyguard too.

[Hazzy101]

Lol i don't think he would wear his best worshipping gown if he was going to spill some heathen blood

[The Sixth Wizard]

Old. I Jihad-ed Rome in one of my first campaigns. It pissed me off when not only did I fail to see the pope in action, I also failed to kill the bugger and lost my Sultan.

[Zhangir]

What funny hat??? I thought you don't see any hat... )))))

[SPARTAN VI]

You can take a screenshot and dump it on a usb thumb drive, no? Or go "medieval" and grab a floppy!

You only see the Pope's funny hat on the campaign map. I've killed him enough times on the battlemap to know.

[KoS]

I've seen the AI Papals take Florence many a time - that is, when I'm playing as a faction that's not nearby, or else I would've gotten Tuscany by then.

Interestingly, it seems as though when the Papal States are not given the chance to expand from Rome, they seem to keep to themselves... but when they get one or more other settlements, they suddenly start cranking out armies, merchants and priests. Has anyone else noticed this?

[Double A]

Yep, in my Venice campaign, they have a almost full stack wondering in France, but they're not doing anything, but in my English campaign, well I already told everyone that they took Florence. I think I'm gonna give them the Aztec settlement with the beach to the Pope when the New World gets discovered and see what they do. (Besides, I have military access so I can still land there)

[Angrychris]

i had about 5 attempts by the papal states to take an island city west of rome and i killed about 3-4 family members and 2-3 popes

[Double A]

nice

[Celsius]

pics or it didn't happen

[Double A]

Double A

Traits:

Foolish
Honest
Hates France

take that!

[GVP]

In one of my campaign Spain, Portugal and the Moors ignored Valencia and so the Pope took it Sadly I had no pic

[KoS]

If I'm a far western European faction and I want to give up my possessions in the Levant after a crusade or two, what I usually do is give all my settlements there to the Papals and launch an armada back to the mother country with all my agents and armies from out East. So one time they did a crusade on Iconium, after I had already taken Antioch and Jerusalem on previous crusades. (I had also taken Gaza, Damascus, Acre, Aleppo and Adana, so I spammed troops and ships from all of those.) Iconium falls no contest, so I get all my armies moved out and gift all seven of those and Iconium to the Papal States. About ten turns later, I see a message that the Turks have been eliminated, so I use toggle_fow to see what the hell happened.

The Papal States had taken all of Anatolia, a lot of Egypt's land, and had started to move into Byzantine territory. In fact, the Pope himself was sieging Constantinople at that moment, and one turn remained until surrender without a reinforcement in sight.

So apparantly, when given an empire, the Papal States kicks ass...

[Nole4694]

oh yes the papal states go on a complete rampage f they get more than 2 territories its hilaious cause he goes for all the catholic factions first too. I ounce playesd as egypt and blitzed sicily then gifted it to the pope and in about 25 turns he had conquered all fo europe and was headed towarsd russia

[Double A]

If I'm a far western European faction and I want to give up my possessions in the Levant after a crusade or two, what I usually do is give all my settlements there to the Papals and launch an armada back to the mother country with all my agents and armies from out East. So one time they did a crusade on Iconium, after I had already taken Antioch and Jerusalem on previous crusades. (I had also taken Gaza, Damascus, Acre, Aleppo and Adana, so I spammed troops and ships from all of those.) Iconium falls no contest, so I get all my armies moved out and gift all seven of those and Iconium to the Papal States. About ten turns later, I see a message that the Turks have been eliminated, so I use toggle_fow to see what the hell happened.

The Papal States had taken all of Anatolia, a lot of Egypt's land, and had started to move into Byzantine territory. In fact, the Pope himself was sieging Constantinople at that moment, and one turn remained until surrender without a reinforcement in sight.

So apparantly, when given an empire, the Papal States kicks ass...

I think there is only one phrase to describe that: Holy crap!

[KoS]

Insane, I say...

But it does prove the age-old question: Battlepopes rock.

[baabaaloo]

its always fun to wall off a nation with pope-cities and let the pope invade said country... good times, good times...

[stormbringer951]

In a hotseat campaign with my friends, I gave all my cities (but an isolated russian one) up to the pope, and he crushed my catholic-faction playing friends