Once you do, select that army, and press the 'Join Crusade' button. To join the crusade you must have an army with more than 8 units in it.

Once the Pope has called for a crusade, regardless of origin, the player may join it provided unless currently excommunicated. Once the crusade has been called you must then join the crusade, or suffer lower relations with the Pope (see below). To start a crusade you must go to the pope overview scroll, which is a tab within the faction information menu (Press your faction shield in the campaign map UI, at the bottom right(ish) of the screen).įrom the pope overview scroll request the pope to call a crusade via the 'request crusade' button, depending on the pope's relationship level with your faction, you may or may not have to pay an amount of money. However, whenever the Pope dies, an election is held among the College to determine the next pope. Cardinals usually remain under their faction's control, simply gaining an extra piety point from the 'Cardinal' trait. Contrawise, if there are no priests of high enough Piety(5) then no more seats in the College of Cardinals will be filled until this criterion is met. It is formed of the most pious priests in Christendom, and any sufficiently religious priest can be selected for it, if one of the thirteen seats is open.

The College of Cardinals is an organization of catholic priests that is centered in Rome.

Excommunication causes religious unrest within the affected faction and also means a Crusade can be called against a Catholic faction.

The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church, and is the head of the Papal States Faction. Christian Factions can be either Catholic or Orthodox Christians.Ĭatholic factions receive missions from the Pope, while Orthodox factions do not.

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