Nobody plays France?

[Ciaran]

I´ve done a Late French campaign in XL, and I liked it a lot. True, the French are the vanilla faction as far as their unit roster is concerned, but I like it nevertheless, simply because those units suit my style best. And the exp. 1 Chivalric Knights from Tolouse shouldn´t be underestimated.
Their strategic position is slightly better than the HRE´s, bordering on two sea areas and having less rival factions as immediate neighbours, and they don´t seem to attract the same amount of hostility as the HRE does.

And they get Jeanne d´Arc - I had her leading a unit of Swiss Armoured Pikemen.