And because the AI can get some funny ideas about who to target with your best CB, it helps even more if you are either one of the Islamic Caliphs or the Fylkir of the Reformed Germanic Church, this way you are in full control of who gets crushed and when.īoth for speed of province conversion, and for promoting Heresy, crippling the Catholic Moral Authority is another good tactic. Because of the sheer size of the Catholic world, the biggest aid for the job is going to be a Jihad/Great Holy War CB, so that you can wipe out whole kingdoms at a time, rather than one Duchy at a time with long truces between. The best way to convert the Catholic world to the One True Faith (TM) is of course going to involve a lot of conquest. If you can get Catholicism made into a Heresy, and one of it's Heresy into mainstream, that's even more fun. Capturing Rome is a nice start to crippling Catholicism from the outside, but if you really want to feel like you're doing something you probably want to paint the religion map a different color than Catholic White. However, just because you can't rid the world of him doesn't mean you can't reduce his faith to a mere footnote in history.
If he loses Rome he just moves to somewhere else. The Papacy itself will always exist and be held by the Pope.
