Quote Originally Posted by aleh
I didn't mean how to make the English realistic, but how to make the campaign realistic.. For example do more politics or some such, or only take alliance from such side or whatever.
Now it is clearer what you are after.

Like Azi said, crusade a lot, don't play nicely with the French, unite the British Isles, build big navies, try to stay on the good side of the Pope, and limit governors and generals to Knights or other elite troops (no peasant guvs). Build lots of British troops like LBs and Billmen. Build lots of religious buildings and agents.

To make the campaign more interesting I try to never attack an ally, I remove or eliminate guvs with nasty vices, build a lot of buildings and upgrades, make one province a capitol and really max it out (in the case of the English that would be Wessex), there's a lot of ways to make the game harder/more interesting.

ichi