That works too, except that I like to start with finland as a. it tend to be badly defended and b. it's on the road to novorgod anyway :P

Anyway in my current danish (early/GA/hard) campaign i'm still in second place in GA score with about 90 years left:/, spain is in the lead cause it managed to go all the way from the iberians to the middle east (thus completeling a **** load of GA goals) while I have all of the baltic and acturally every costal province along the northern part of the map and most of the stepps ... but now I'm out to kill Spain as obvioulsy I nee to kill them if I want to win by GA score (I can crush the rest of them too I guess but easier to just kill spain :P)

So now I'm using the scorch earth hide and seek tactic against them landing mutliple assuals on the iberian and than running from one province to another... working really well as I manage to take out a HUGE amount of their troops this way as their forces split and manage to squeeze out gold in the process to help finace the war (having trouble running trade route now everyone is against me and I have to keep 3 ship in every water in the med to not get sinked )

Anyway I now have the iberians under my belt and probably win anyway thx to homeland score diff....