Heretical faiths sharing Pope as the head (using Rite tenet) cannot win the Crusade; No land is distributed and the GHW is repeated without cooldown.

[bighungryjames]

Information​

I have verifed my game files (Steam only)​

Yes

I have disabled all mods​

Yes

I am running the latest game update​

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Summary​

Heretical faiths sharing Pope as the head (using Rite tenet) cannot win the Crusade; No land is distributed and the GHW is repeated without cooldown.

Description​

The tenet "Rite" allows the new faith to share the head of faith with the parent faith.
For faiths with directed great holy wars (the ones declared by spiritual head of faiths e.g. Crusades), the GHW is declared by the non-playable clerical head of faith.

If that heretical faith also has a tenet that enables a great holy war (e.g. Armed Pilgrimages), this triggers the following problem.
1. When the warscore of a GHW ticks 100%, the GHW always end without the expected consequences. No land is distributed and nobody gains or looses titles. The event notifying the end of GHW (great_holy_war.0052) also states as if the character does not have the faith of the victors.
2. The head of faith (whose faith is not this heresy) immediately declares another GHW, without any normal cooldowns.

Steps to reproduce​

1. Create an heresy to Catholicism, with the following tenets:
A. Rite B. Armed Pilgrimages C. Any other tenet
2. Due to the Rite tenet, the new heretical faith will have the Catholic pope (title:k_papal_state) as the head of faith.
3. When the Crusades are activated (normally year 1095 or later), the great holy war for this heresy is declared by the Pope (whose faith is Catholicism, not this heresy).
4. It seems that the root of this GHW is this new heretical faith, so only the rulers following this heresy can join this GHW (no Catholics ever joined, in my experience).
5. However, it seems that the event or an effect checks if the beneficiary shares the faith with the head of faith, the Pope, which seems to trigger an error. (Pope is a Catholic; the participants and the beneficiaries of this GHW are not.)
6. When the GHW warscore ticks 100%, the war is ended, but no land is distributed to the participants' beneficiaries.
7. The Pope immediately declares GHW for this faith without any cooldown (go back to 3).

Game Version​

1.9.0.4

Platform​

Windows

Additional Information​

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[bighungryjames]

There is a reddit post regarding this issue, written by another player.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/v5kngh