Starting with England

[Ramses II CP]

Go directly to Edinburgh with all the troops you can spare and capture it as quickly as possible. If you kill Scotland while they're still stuck on one city you won't get any Papal warnings, and you can wrap up the rest of the isles at your own pace.

I convert every settlement on the island to a city as well, it's too irritating to have to constantly ferry troops across aboard ships. Just train what you need at Caen and keep England full of militia.

Get Bruges and Antwerp after Scotland falls, they're economic powerhouses. From there the world is your oyster.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Is this strange or are the AI Stupid? I was looking over my regions to see if any were under threat, when i saw the French king lingering on the border with no army just his Generals bodyguard. I rounded up 4 groups of mailed knights and Robert and pounced on his troops, they decided to fight back. I put 4 of them into wedge and my general as normal and charged, the majority of the frnech horses fell in the first charge, and good ol' Phillip died seconds later at the hand of Robert. There were no survivors.

Next turn another French family member turned up, alone once again. I sent the same army and used the exact same tactics, this time there was only 1 survivor.

Are the AI just stupid or are they purposely trying to put the pope against me or something??? I think milan saw this too and declared war on them. Then after a few more turns, france tried to make me a vassal?! just when im winning! AI i think has a few bugs...

[Fookison]

Go directly to Edinburgh with all the troops you can spare and capture it as quickly as possible. If you kill Scotland while they're still stuck on one city you won't get any Papal warnings, and you can wrap up the rest of the isles at your own pace.

I convert every settlement on the island to a city as well, it's too irritating to have to constantly ferry troops across aboard ships. Just train what you need at Caen and keep England full of militia.

Get Bruges and Antwerp after Scotland falls, they're economic powerhouses. From there the world is your oyster.

I totally agree with this tactic. I try to get Scotland off the Island and then work on setting up the plunge into the rest of Europe by using Caen, Antwerp and Brugges as my bases. The rebel areas on the Island can be dealt with at your leisure. Another fun way is to skip getting into France and head to Scandinavia and deal with the Danes, HRE and Polish. Then plunge south.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

An interesting tactic, but i like to give Scotland a fighting chance before i destroy them... It makes the game seem more realistic and it in turn makes it more entertaining