Quote Originally Posted by Bhruic
I only played on Early. I never saw Poland, Novogorod, Aragon or the HRE do well (as well as the Danes you mentioned). They always either caved (in the case of HRE), or just never expanded.

Bh
In a game where I played the Almohads, Poland and Hungary were the last two countries left on the map, they each had about half of central europe.