It's interesting, I have trundled along in a HRE campaign through to 1112. I seem to be doing okay. I blitzed Denmark and Venice on my first turn, capturing both. Capturing the latter started an ongoing war with the Italians who have since 'moved' off shore. Am slowly building up my navy (I now have 4 ships south of Venice with another coming out of Denmark soon) and am now starting to experience real cash shortages.
The Italians did bestow me earlier a nice reward for capturing their king and prince when taking Milan, Tuscany, and Genoa, but since then they have turned stuffy and no longer proffer me any handy cash refunds. The French in the mean time decided to attack me when I was weak and bloated, retrieving Burgandy from me. This caused me to hire some gunslingers and I walked them over eventually taking Isle de France, Champagne, Flanders, Toulouse, Provence, and Burgandy back as well in my search for vengence. The French now took to stabbing the English again, and reside in Britany, Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine. I am watching them carefully as they tried to have a go at Toulouse twice now, but they didn't fare so well, with my peasants and rabble tossing theirs out in a nearly even battles.
I am slowly attempting to shore up my rear guard, as the Polish and the Hungarians have been busy sparring with the Byz, but currently mostly peasants guard my borders of Austria and Bohemia. I have moved a small force into Franconia to try and forestall any attempts by my neighbors to liberate the local rebels.
I am also concerned with my tech also as I still am using only spearmen and archers, though I see better coming eventually, though buildings are now slow to come by. I did just take Norway a few turns earlier, with Sweden coming some 15 years earlier (they were very unrestful with all those unbribable vikings to the north). Once I can get trade going, I'm sure things will be better.
Any other suggestions or things to keep in mind?
Thanx in advance,
GA
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