game too easy? anyone finishing early?

[Snarkfarfar]

Easy AI I don't know about ;). At one time when I got excommunicated I got attacked simultaneously by Denmark, Hungary, Poland and France. Pulled through though, defended my castles on the eastern front while obliterating France (and later mainland England just for the heck of it :P)
I think success with HRE is all about defending from the inevitable attacks while conquering at the same time. They are an action packed faction in the middle of everything.
And I'm not gonna say that the campaign was too easy, because it surely was challenging. It was just too short :/

[Valpo]

I'm in agreement the campaign AI is improved. Especially on the diplomatic front where the diplomacy seems more intelligent and a lot less random then it does on Rome.

I've had too short of an attention span to complete any of the campaigns as yet. Part of the problem is I had a good one going and then I found the time-scale thing and decided to change it and so I'm probably going to start that one over.

The Byzantines are annoying because the Catholic factions are always declaring war on them. I just finish up fighting Venice and then Milan, HRE, and Papal States all go to war with me. Annoying! Oddly enough the Turks left me alone.