Quote Originally Posted by Faenaris
One thing I have noticed: If you blitz, the game is VERY easy.
Good point. I think that's true of all TW games (maybe STW excepted - the OP has a point about that game being hard). Some RTW mods advise you to do nothing for 5 years, to give the AI a chance to grow.

I remember that with HRE in MTW. The guides said blitz to take out Italy early etc. But if you just turtle for a couple of decades, it becomes hellishly hard. Quite like Oda in STW, in fact: surrounded by powerful factions that all decide they want to have piece of you.

One of the fun things about PBMs is inheriting late or mid-game situations. We are so used to the early games, when things are easy. But in the mid or late game, confronting an AI faction that's gobbled up the other half of the map can be great fun.