You're way too kind :))
Never got the chance. Not that the French smashed the HRE as expected but the English did backstab the French and erased them from the map ...(the French did help out by sending crusades that never made it since the English took the chapter house each time ....
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Did pretty much nothing myself for about 60 years except taking Austria, Tyrol and Hungary from the Hungarian (routing armies of jobbagys is not really that hard ...), Ireland and Livonia. My influence suffered as a resultand since the English were smashing the Spaniards quite easily (why the Spaniards almost never think of building a few barques to have only two provinces to guard is beyond me ...), I started to take the Elmo holdings (from Cordoba to Tunisia - having arbs make it so much easier to deal with AUM). The GH did show up but it was a mini-GH (between 8,000 and 9,000) so that they reach Lithuania and are slowly reduced to piece by the Byz and Polish (they had their and so full that the never made a single attempt to take livonia from me). Brits have done well in the meantime and have destroyed the Spaniards and taken Norway, Sweden, a big chunk of what was Germany and three-four provinces in the middle East (IIRC Palestine, Antioch and Tripoli not sure about non-coastal provinces).
They have large stack and generals with loads of stars (I no longer use inquisitors except when I play as the HRE) but due to the kind of tactic used in inter-AI wars (attack, counter, attack, re-counter, etc ...) all they best general have the "retreats very often v&v" so it should be a not too easy task to get the British empire to collapse after a few defeats . But that is my assignment for next week-end ... Yes, life is indeed hard ....![]()
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