The Pope on crossbows

[Double A]

Is it just historical or does it matter in the game if you use crossbows against fellow Christians? And that wouldn't include Orthodox Christians, just Catholics, right?

[HighLord z0b]

The Pope doesn't like it when you attack fellow Catholics, although he doesn't mind if you are relieving a siege of your own town or defending yourself, and if you have higher papal approval (the amount of crosses in the Pope screen) he won't mind as much. It doesn't matter if you use crossbows, normal bows, axes, spears or whatever against them.

The big no-no is sacking or exterminating Catholic cities, that really get's his goat.

[Double A]

So this answers the age-old question - CA was too lazy to it!

[cottontail]

So this answers the age-old question - CA was too lazy to it!

CA was lazy in many aspects. But who honestly cares if the pope gets angry about crossbows? He's annoying enough already! Would, have been nice to have, but it doesn't make them lazy if they don't add it in. Why not whine about Age of Empires 2? It didn't have the pope at all

[zligor]

Is it just historical or does it matter in the game if you use crossbows against fellow Christians?

Don`t know `bout fellow christians but that pope really hates when I use crossbow against him.When my clumsy assassin misses him I get excom. immediately+abysmal relations+war with papal states.And when I`m down on my luck I ussualy get bunch of crusaders with no sense for humor coming after me.

[Double A]

Yeah... about that... always save before you try to take that pompous idiot and his hat down!

[Spartan90]

CA didn't take into account that using a crossbow in battle was "not-christian" or "dishonourable". In the end, if you're fighting fellow catholics, the pope is going to hate you just as much regardless if you were using a crossbow, sword, bow or spear. Just DO NOT exterminate predominately catholic cities.

And yes, orthodox christians have nothing to do with the pope. They are christians, but not catholics, so you can kill em all without any papal consequence

[Khubilai_Khan]

Kill the crazy pope. He is a pain in the ass.

[Desperado †]

I thought the Pope banned projectiles at times not just because fellow christians where using them on each other, but because it meant that the Knights had less authority over a Peasent. A Peasent would easilly be able to kill a well armoured Knight with a crossbow that he wasn't very well trained with.

[Spartan90]

Caradog, this is true, but it has no impact in the game whatsoever. It's just a historical matter that CA didn't include in the game. Would've been a VERY interesting idea though

[Verga_del_Brujo]

I don't think he cares. The pope has used crossbows against me. Milan has used crossbows against me, and when I went for revenge, the pope declared me war, with lots of crossbows and handgunners.

[Broken Pope]

Use crossbows if you like, you Godless varmints.

What I really don't like is people attacking each-other with pickles. Thats one thing I can't stand. Call me crazy, but a guy's gotta have his pet hates.