Quote Originally Posted by Mahrabals apprentice
I just can't do the WRE. I just shambe from 1 problem to the next just to find the original problem has come back
Don't force christianity. Go with paganism and make sure you don't have any high influence christians in the region.

Then, as long as you keep training peasants, and send good govs to high pop provinces, you shouldn't ahve a problem holding the entire empire from turn 1.