Starting with England

[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