So:
-Pros:
The Empire is huge, has many special units, and can become powerful enough to ignore the Pope altogether in time

-Cons
It starts at a very low tech level, low influence, and a tendence to rebellions and civil wars.


Not only I want to play a decent HRE (and catholic faction) game; I need it to monitor whether my nerfing of Jinetes works or it´s still a situation where either the almos overrun Spain for lack of Jinetes, or they get overrun by Jinete hordes...