Converting Relegion

**Watercress** · February 26, 2009, 12:47 PM

i just reading wikipedia on Rome: BI, and apparently you can convert your nation's religion. how do you do this. and do you need to do to make it happen?

**hastati lord** · February 26, 2009, 04:06 PM

I believe u have to change your cities to be a different religion and your faction leader as well

**SonOfAlexander** · February 27, 2009, 01:04 PM

I recommend keeping your faction at it's current religion, unless you are Zoroastrian (it will be hard converting the whole world, unless you want that challenge!). If you are either of the Roman empires, then you must choose between paganism and christianity at the beginning of the game - i recommend the religion which the majority of your generals are.

Knock down old temples and build new ones to change the religion of a settlement

**hastati lord** · February 27, 2009, 02:32 PM

the only time i ever go fom one religion to another when i have no cities of the second religion is with franks so i get their christian paladin bodygaurds

**SonOfAlexander** · February 27, 2009, 02:58 PM

Christian Paladins? Religion and Paladins are completely unrelated

**Lord Thesaurian** · February 28, 2009, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by SonOfAlexander

Christian Paladins? Religion and Paladins are completely unrelated

um, yeah u must have a different patch or something:hmmm:

**HanatielHawk** · May 05, 2009, 06:18 AM

Tear down temples of other religions and build your own AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, or else you'll get revolts and you don't want that to happen, unless you like to slaughter your population.

@SonOfAlexander, my religion is Zoroastrian and the conversion is not as hard as you think it would be

In fact all regions I conquered are directly converted, sometimes it goed wrong, but most of the time my religion stays in the settlement without problems and all my settlements even those who were christian for 100% are now 100% Zoroastian

So i see no problem in there

**hastati lord** · February 27, 2009, 04:10 PM

well if the franks convert to christianity then u get paladin bodyguards with slightly higher stats then the pagan ones

**Muagan_ra** · May 08, 2009, 11:03 AM

Your faction leaders religion is the de-facto "official" religion - any cities with a different religion will suffer significant public order penalties. If you want to, for instance, turn the Western Romans Pagan again, the starting Christian Emperor must die.

**HanatielHawk** · May 08, 2009, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Muagan_ra

Your faction leaders religion is the de-facto "official" religion - any cities with a different religion will suffer significant public order penalties. If you want to, for instance, turn the Western Romans Pagan again, the starting Christian Emperor must die.

Can't you convert the faction leader?
By the way mostly it says it's set by the faction leader, but i don't think it's true i think that the main religion is which temple is in the city. As i tear down a christian church the cross symbol is gone, if the next turn a Zoastrorian temple is in the city, the main religion is converted. But if i leave the church cause of to low po, it remains christian.