First campaign, and alls quiet...

[Dayve]

A lot of ruckus happens when you play as a faction on the European continent, especially a central one. As Poland there's a good chance you'll have to defend your land from every neighbour, sometimes even the single state nations like Saxony.

Sweden seems to get a lot of stick from Prussia and Poland, but not from the two countries that hate them funnily enough, they're content to sit and be unfriendly with you but no action.

I wouldn't bother playing as Russia, nobody ever even tried to invade me in 40 years.

[fusileer2002]

I started as Prussia and have quickly grabbed some of the single state nations nearby - Courland and Saxony - plus that region that splits your territory and is owned by Poland. Didnt fancy a long war with them and managed to buy peace by offering them plug bayonets immediately after i'd taken their land

I had the most enjoyable battle so far too. Saxony sallied out to defeat my smaller sieging force. I formed a line and out in front, little beyond musket range, was a large farmhouse which I garrisoned with a unit of line. It was like my own little "La Haye Sainte" from Waterloo and worked great to break up and delay their attack! I lost that unit eventually but won the battle easily. Much more fun than fighting hordes of bow-armed Native Americans!

[Superteale]

I played as France and I swapped French Guyana for Ceylon and an alliance with UP and then I gave Arcadia to GB for an alliance. After that nothing happened in Europe AFAIK. I built up a trade empire and expanded in the new world.
I expected at least some of my alliance- partners to declare a war that dragged me into it too, but nada...

[SpiritFox]

My first (and current) game was Poland. Ended up in a two-front war - invaded Crimea, then the Ottomans, joined a scruffle with Sweden. Managed to force a peace - then got DoW'd by Courland and Denmark. In the meantime, Portugal got annihilated by Spain, which in turn got kicked out of Italy by Venice. France and Austria beat each others head in, so I swept into Central Europe, taking Prussia and Austria down.

One thing I think is that the likelihood of other nations DoW'ing you depends on the pace of your territorial acquisition. I expended so far and so fast, nearly every state in Europe is diplomatically hostile to me. I wasn't in the mood to tempt fate, so I bribed them off with state gifts to pacify them but I get the feeling that if you go on an all-out land grab early on, others start to see you as a threat and that increases the chances of random DoWs by anyone in the vicinity - i.e Courland and Denmark.