Does the Pope ever win Crusades?

[ziamatt]

By "win" I mean win as the leading contributor. Does he expand the Papal State by gaining control of the new lands, or does it go to the feudal lord who had the largest contribution?

 

[Kimberly]

I know Holy Orders are exempt from getting Crusade rewards, and the Pope probably is too. It just skips over to the next-highest eligible participant.

 

[Torngasuk]

It used to be possible, but I think they fixed that.

 

[Sovetskysoyuz]

Don't think Holy Orders are exempt, one of them did it in my current game.

 

[Chazzen01]

If you read the patch logs (like me) it says that the Pope's contribution has been greatly diminished so that he has less of a chance of that happening.

 

[unmerged(229266)]

By "win" I mean win as the leading contributor. Does he expand the Papal State by gaining control of the new lands, or does it go to the feudal lord who had the largest contribution?

In my game as Ireland he won Portucale, and it ended up a de jure duchy of the papacy. He lost it to muslims. When I took it off them I had to give it back to him, because he hated me for having one of his dejure duchys.

 

[tnick0225]

Yes the Pope can win Crusades he actually won Sicily in a game I was playing just a few weeks ago May have to go search for a screenshot of that for yall.

FYI...this is in vanilla without mods most recent patch in case ya were wondering

 

[knppel]

To get high contrbution in Crusades make sure your army fights battles with enemy armies, and leave the sieges to allies if any are present. If the papal army wins the first battle he has good chances getting a high score same as anyone else.

 

[Julyan]

I know Holy Orders are exempt from getting Crusade rewards, and the Pope probably is too. It just skips over to the next-highest eligible participant.

Holy Orders are not exempt. Knight's Templars won a crusade for Greece in my latest game.

 

[stormblind]

Holy Orders are not exempt. Knight's Templars won a crusade for Greece in my latest game.

Lord, that would end up being one of the strongest bastions of Catholic power in the world. To a ridiculous degree.

 

[Gunnarr]

I am very disappointed that they nerfed the Papal State even more with the latest patch and crusades.

Does anyone have any ideas how it can be brought back to more reasonable levels? where in the code can it be changed?