How to survive Holy War?

[laagamer]

Okay, so the pope has decided to send 60,000 men to my shores for the Kingdom of England.

My reformed Asatru religion, of which I'm the head, has about 30,000 troops.

What do I do? Just try to blitz Rome and surrounding stuff?

Commit suicide?

EDIT:

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[laagamer]

Okay, so just a heads up in case anyone wants an answer to this.

Buying a truce does not stop an impending Great Holy War. He took my money, then declared war on me anyway.

BUT

Originally posted by Deylendor:

This is very much winnable. Wait for them to trickle in at your shores and decimate them. They won't come all at once and they will have a disembark penalty.
Speed 1 this war.

I won! Went all Rob Stark on him and called the banners. Funny, even allies that weren't of my religion liked me enough to join in.

Originally posted by CrUsHeR:

Mostly it's just a whack-a-mole to kill their troops. Don't go to Rome, capturing the Pope doesn't even give warscore.

Problem is rather the long term game, because if there was one crusade for England, there will be more crusades every 30 years. It only ends if you can execute the Dismantle the Papacy decision, which may take a while.

It was whack-a-mole. I lost one battle of out like 20, and that's only because I split my forces and my army was tired at that point. I regrouped a kicked their ass. Despite having 30k total, I think the most the AI ever grouped was 12K?

So my 20k just doomstacked them. Add in Allies, and by the end of the war, the Catholics had 15k total (down from 60k) to our 40k (up from originally 30k)

Allies. Win. Wars.