@Al Khalifah

Yeah, I see what you mean about doing what you normally do in a game. I mean it wouldn't be much of a challenge if you let, for example, the French keep Flanders even though they had no way of holding onto it, just because you knew you would have to switch to it.

I'd love to start a PBM game, but I've never played PBM games before. Have you played a lot of PBMs? It seems pretty straight-forward though from what I've read in the PBM forum. I could start one pretty soon actually, but I'd have to think about the format. Maybe playing the thirty years each, and the next player takes over as the next faction. We could also randomly choose the next faction, by drawing a number between 1-20, and the person taking the next turn wouldn't know which one it would be until the player before them has finished his turn.Then each player could recount their reign as that certain faction. What do you think?

Marquis