Well, I'm now about 50 or so turns into my Scottish campaign.

As I said earlier, I had booted the English off of my island, though I still haven't taken Iverness really need to get round to that. I have taken Dublin and Oslo as they were both rebels and slowly built my towns up to give me a regular income of 5000 florins (is this good?).

I got very lucky in that I had left the English heir wandering around Cornwall and when his father died that made him king and the only family member left, the French had made short work of them without their island cities. The only town they had left was Caen, which I had been blockading off and on for Nobles missions, so I quickly landed a force of dismounted knights and besieged the fortress before anyone else could and they have 1 more turn left to live . I have also shipped a similar force down to take Bordeaux who are still rebels as well.

Problems I've had, my merchants keep getting killed, someone said to put more than one on a resource but I don't know how to do this as only one at a time can go onto any given resource icon

Inquisitors, went through about 12 assassins trying to get rid of them

Forming alliances and trading maps, seems that the AI, intelligently enough, doesn't see the need of getting on the good side of such a small faction.

The Danes, I'm sure these fur wearing psycho's are eyeing up my lands, they seem to be by far the most aggressive AI faction in my part of the world. I'm sure they'll attack in the next few years, think I'll just let them so they get excommunicated, might even get to call a crusade against them.

So that's my campaign so far, as you can tell I am the patient type who likes to build up a solid base and expand slowly. I'm kind of hoping that the Danes attack and get excommunicated and I can try and take some of their lands before suing for peace and extorting a shedload of money from them for the priviledge.

Feel free to comment or offer advice.