The first time I played the WRE within 3 turns half the empire rebelled suffice to say I gave up there and then.

Anyway I started again earlier on H/H and im at 375 and ive held onto most of my territory, there was a rebellion in which Lepis in Africa, Salamancia (sp?) in Spain, a territory in central Gaul, Pannonia and Dalmatia were apart of. However i'd destroyed much military infrastructure so they were low class armies. BTW i'm using the Pax Britannia mod so the WRE starts without Britain and the Romano-British have it, anyway.

Religious problems were dealt with immediately by destroying 90% of pagan buildings, except in provinces where this was to risky and moving pagan and christian generals about. Rioting was fierce in Spain however in time this died down.

Ecnomically by destroying many buildings I propped the economy up along with disbanding many Foederati infantry and cavalry and a large percentage of my fleet.

Loyalty wise I moved the capital from Rome to Massilia, bang smack in the middle of the empire which has helped stopping Spain from rebelling totally. Things in Spain got better still when the territory which had earlier rebelled came back over to me peacefully through a loyalist revolt. This left the Gallic rebel territory isolated and within 5 years this territory and 2 others in the east were recovered from rebels and plenty of money was made.

Militarily, well I had no standing field army so I created provincial armies, small mobile light forces to deal with local rebellions and border skirmishers, this was the backbone of the raid which resulted in the destruction of the Alemanni after the conquest of their capital. Which so many cities exterminated I was able to build vital infrastructure, roads, trading posts, ports, farming, sewers and later military infrastructure in key locations.

After 10 years I was in a position to allocate serious funding to the army, my 1 field army was comprised of most of the garrison from Rome and other Comis and Foed (inf and cav) from the eastern provinces and is currently stationed east of the Alps to deal with the Frankish raids of Pannonia. In the west my provincial armed forces were designed purely for a holding action to keep the frontier stable without doing anything dramatic and they achieved this very well for very little expense

Navy, again after about 10 years the fleet with rebuilt to deal with the pirates which blockaded Syracuse (which I later allowed to rebel then exterminated) now I have control over the central med and adriatic again.

I've only gotten to 375 and done well I think, my treasury is currently at 10,000d making a modest profit of 1500 or so, in the last 1 or so though things have gotten harder. The Berbers reacted to a failed attack on Tingi by seizing Carthage after a bloody assault on the city, the Franks have also crossed the Danube and raided the territory heavily necessitating the constant presence of the I Italico legion to remain peaceful. The Franks have now began raiding the Rhine frontier which isnt guarded as heavily as I would like, but financial restraints are making it difficult to raise enough troops.

WRE is extremely enjoyable to play im glad to say