England too easy?

[Anthammer]

Started playing as Venice, had real problems, so decided to try England, got the whole of the British Isles fairly quickly, wiped the Scots out after turn 5, got Rennes early as well, then got Antwerp and Bruge after 2 or 3 battles. Did a crusade and got Antioch, kept it, and from there got Jereuselem and Acre and Gaza, have kept them and have converted the population of all to at least 50% Catholic. Then did a crusade to Leon and now have that as well as Pamplona. Took Rheims from the French and Algers as well. All this by about turn 65, seems too easy.
H/VH settings btw.

[Von Nanega]

Seems you had a lucky game. One time playing as the Danes, I rolled through Europe like lightening. I started again with them and am locked in a four way war with England, HRE, France, and of course the backstabbing Milanese.

[econ21]

England has a rather easy strategic position - in a corner (sorry, the Scots don't really count). Your game progression sounds like my two English campaigns although you are a lot faster (by turn 90, I've not done what you did).

I noticed things got a lot easier when I started sacking cities - before that the budget constraint was tight (I like to always be building everywhere, but that's not possible without sacking). Crusading against continental enemies also greatly eased things.

I found the Holy Land challenging (not enough generals and too much religious dissatisfaction). In Europe, all my continental neighbours attacked me, so it was hard to progress with only a couple of continental armies and the Pope telling me to back off all the time. I found the level of challenge just right, to be honest, but that's personal preference.

[Anthammer]

Yeah, i have found things a bit easier since i started exterminating rather than sacking. I think the problem i have with Venice is where to expand, do i go for Milan, Sicily or the Byzantines? I normally go for the Corsica and the other Island, that might be my problem.

[Dead Knight of the Living]

I'm playing as England right now and I exploded throughout the British Isles and France. I don't know how many turns it took me to conquer all of that, but it was very quick. But now I'm at war with Spain, Milan, Denmark and HRE and just got excommunicated.

This last turn I have besieged Pamplona, but Denmark has besieged Rheims, Metz and Antwerp. HRE has a full stack by Metz. I don't know if they're going to help Denmark with the siege or not, but I would imagine as soon as I break the Danish siege, the HRE army will move against me. Milan is sending an army towards Marseille.

I also own Jerusalem and Acre. The Turks declared a Jihad on Jerusalem and now have it besieged (for the second time).

I pushed the end turn button and the Danes assaulted Antwerp. I repelled it and broke the siege. Then they assaulted Rheims. I repelled that assault as well. They also assaulted Metz. But that's where I stopped playing. When I load the game back up I'll be trying to repel a 3/4 full stack of Norsemen with 4 units of peasants and 3 units of Mailed Knights. I don't know that I'm going to win this time.

After I'm done with that I'll see if the Turks assault Jerusalem. I hope they do because I have a full stack in it with a bombard unit and plenty of archers. I've never had a city/fortress assaulted while I had a full stack in it in any totalwar game. We'll see.

Bottom Line. England started out very easy for me. But now the world's coming down on me.

[Anthammer]

It might happen with me, the Mongols turned up about 8 turns ago, thats where i am at. HRE seems weak from my scouting, nothing in Hamburg, Metz or Dijon. France is trying to take Antwerp but i fought them back twice. I am currently at war with HRE, Spain and Egypt and am ranked 1 for military, population and i am the most advanced nation. I'll see what happens later.

I do think you get too much money from exterminating/sacking something and it needs to be reduced IMO.

[Vladimir]

If there were re-emerging factions, it'd be a lot tougher. There would be a good chance the Scots would come back if you got sloppy in the North.