One suggestion - let's trial this game at Medium - not hard - campaign difficulty, very hard battles.

The reason is I am curious about diplomacy. I think most WoS players would like more amenable AI diplomacy - alliances that matter, not always being attacked by neighbours - and I suspect we are more likely to get that on medium than on hard difficulty. The only question is whether that setting would make the game too easy. A trial should show that. If we feel unchallenged, we do the real thing on hard.

AFAIK, M2TW is already hardwired so that the AI gangs up on the human when he becomes the strongest, so even on medium, we probably will get a fairly challenging experience.

HRE is probably not easy anyway, especially with the potential inter-Duke coordination issues.