Hey all,

I started a new game last night, playing for the first time as the Danish on Expert (do these guys know how to breed or what ). Anyway, I'd already conquered Sweden and Norway nice and early in the game (between 1090 and 1100) and was quite happily meandering along, upgrading my provinces, armies and trading routes. While doing this i was contemplating where to expand, down through Germany towards the fertile trading routes in the Mediterranian, or East towards the Rebel Pagan factions where resistance would be futile After deciding to expand East I amassed large armies of blood-thirsty vikings under the control of my not too shabby King and his first heir to the throne (King was getting old, so I had to prepare my next in line by giving him valuable command experience) then decided to wait a few years before i lead an invasion into Pagan lands.

Well, as luck (or stupidity depending on who's side you were on) would have it, the English King and his large army moved from Wessex to Normandy, leaving only skeleton armies in Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria. After rubbing my eyes to discover that this event had actually happened and it was not just a product of my imagination (because the French had a huge army in Flanders) my King and his heir rallied their armies and launched probably the easiest Viking invasion of the British Isles in history Further rubbing salt into the English King's wounds I destroyed his pathetic fleet of barques in the English Channel leaving him stranded in Normandy to deal with the French who were already at war with him All this and the year was only 1120.

So, i spose the point of this post was to find out who else out there has been handed not just a province, but a COUNTRY on a silver platter like i was? I'd love to hear others stories of AI assisted conquests.