Quote Originally Posted by Seedexodus
Do the HRE really collapse sooner or later?? In most of my campaigns, especially the English one, it's always me, the Byz, Almohads(or Spanish, whoever wins) and the HRE completely dominating the map... Of course, there's also this weird campaign I had, the initial rebels(the rebels at the start of the game) conquered half of europe!! Not just because of civil warr or anything like that, they just moved from province to province, eliminating the Hungarians, Polish, Novgorods, and the Italians.. That was one crazy campaign all right...
Yes, that is pretty unusual, Seedexodus. In most games, the HRE is very prone to falling into civil war--mostly from either losing a couple provinces, and/or from being excommunicated. So despite their size, the Germans are usually fairly easy pickings. This is particularly true if you get a coalition of factions to gang up on them.