I've played out M2TW (1.3) and all the expansions as much as you probably can while still being entertained. Aside from the few mods that seem to be extremely popular, anyone have any suggestions or guidelines/rules setup to play by that make the game more interesting, aka, challenging?

Anything from the basic play-like-a-saint or kill-everything-as-fast-as-you-can to historically based objectives that aren't in the game (recreate HRE by certain date, re-establish Charlemagne's empire as the French, etc)


Hopefully this thread helps some people (like myself) get back into the game some more.