INQUISITORS AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM
In my first campaign I got killed between 20-30 generals (as well as other prominent people) by Inquisitors. In my next campaign I decided to improve my relations with the Pope. I’m about to finish my second campaign as the HRE and have only been killed like 3-5 generals by inquisitors during the whole campaign in H/H over 100 turns playing very aggressively.
I chose to build churches in every city as my first construction. Doing this raises the piety of your general and pleases the Pope. The first unit I recruited in every city after those churches had been built were priests, even two priests per city reaching the maximum number available. I conquered from turn one, so plenty of war going on.
Every time I saw a heretic or witch I sent a high-ranking priest (not a cardinal because he already was one) to trial them for heresy. If they win, this raises the piety of my priests and my goal is to make as many of my priests as possible cardinals. I found out that all my cardinals had 6 piety or more. So you had to raise the piety of your priests to level 6 so as to become cardinals. So heretic hunting was high on the agenda for my priests. My goal was to flood the college of cardinals with my own HRE cardinals.
By mid game (60-70 turns) my cardinals outnumbered every other faction in the College of Cardinals and as the cardinals vote in the way their faction leaders want them to, having a majority of cardinals from the HRE in the College of Cardinals this meant that the majority of the votes went for one of my own HRE cardinals. Henceforth all elected Popes belonged to the HRE.
Even after I started war with the Pope and killed him, the new elected Pope belonged as well to the HRE, so it was a rather uneventful game from the point of view of the inquisitors compared to my Spanish first campaign.
I'd also like to add that on adopting candidates for generals I always prefered to select one with only one star as a general and two piety rather than a four star general with no piety. After all the general is really you.
I hope this helps all those experiencing problems with inquisitors.
In my first campaign I got killed between 20-30 generals (as well as other prominent people) by Inquisitors. In my next campaign I decided to improve my relations with the Pope. I’m about to finish my second campaign as the HRE and have only been killed like 3-5 generals by inquisitors during the whole campaign in H/H over 100 turns playing very aggressively.
I chose to build churches in every city as my first construction. Doing this raises the piety of your general and pleases the Pope. The first unit I recruited in every city after those churches had been built were priests, even two priests per city reaching the maximum number available. I conquered from turn one, so plenty of war going on.
Every time I saw a heretic or witch I sent a high-ranking priest (not a cardinal because he already was one) to trial them for heresy. If they win, this raises the piety of my priests and my goal is to make as many of my priests as possible cardinals. I found out that all my cardinals had 6 piety or more. So you had to raise the piety of your priests to level 6 so as to become cardinals. So heretic hunting was high on the agenda for my priests. My goal was to flood the college of cardinals with my own HRE cardinals.
By mid game (60-70 turns) my cardinals outnumbered every other faction in the College of Cardinals and as the cardinals vote in the way their faction leaders want them to, having a majority of cardinals from the HRE in the College of Cardinals this meant that the majority of the votes went for one of my own HRE cardinals. Henceforth all elected Popes belonged to the HRE.
Even after I started war with the Pope and killed him, the new elected Pope belonged as well to the HRE, so it was a rather uneventful game from the point of view of the inquisitors compared to my Spanish first campaign.
I'd also like to add that on adopting candidates for generals I always prefered to select one with only one star as a general and two piety rather than a four star general with no piety. After all the general is really you.
I hope this helps all those experiencing problems with inquisitors.
