Freaking Excommunicated

**Ecthelion** · November 15, 2006, 09:14 PM

Okay so playing as France I got excommunicated. Could not have happened at a worse time since I had a full stack Crusader army ready to take Jerusalem had I just one more turn!

A new pope was elected from Venice, a neutral faction that was (I assume) at odds with Milan, who had recently declared war on me. The new Pope told me to make peace in 5 turns or suffer excommunication. Well, 2 turns later I was excommunicated!!!

Why would a Venetian Pope want to excommunicate me? My relations with the Papacy were quite good prior to this.

**mike007** · November 15, 2006, 09:16 PM

You attacked someone he didint want you to attack.

**Ecthelion** · November 15, 2006, 09:42 PM

Milan attacked me, not the other way around. The only provocation I can see are my policies of executing prisoners and assassinations. But those things have never touched off any wars.

**Aristocrat** · November 15, 2006, 09:46 PM

Maybe Milan had better relations with the pope, at least in my game this was an influence when I attacked the HRE....he excommunicated them rather than risk my ire (I had perfect relations with the pope).

**Reaper** · November 15, 2006, 10:09 PM

In my game as France, I was excommunicated by the Pope, who then asked for a Crusade against me! Now, the Danes are sending their Crusader army against me in Toulouse...

**Fenris** · November 16, 2006, 01:12 AM

Actually, the pope is rather retarded... I'm having much more fun playing a muslims (Turks) army than christians ones...

**Spart** · November 16, 2006, 01:50 AM

I've been having problems with pope too. When Veniced attacked me (playing HRE) and sieged couple of my cities, I then sallied the fort and won the attackers, but the pope gets angry. Yes, I understand, sallying is an attack anyway, but I had no choice, since my income was low due to sieging.
Then, when I fought a defensive field battle against Venice (I had better relations with the pope), I thought I should release the prisoners after the battle so the pope wouldn't get pissed off. Well, I released them, and relations with pope were plummiting again..
Nothing I can do about it, I have to defend myself. I think I'll kill the pope soon. =)