Quote Originally Posted by Caravel View Post
The Sicilians and Hungarians will always be breathing down your kneck, but in many campaigns where I've been hard at it fending them off, the French and HRE have stabbed me in the back as well.
In the case at hand, I have only two allies in the nearby provinces, the Pope and the HRE that is already at war with the Hungarian (all my other allies abandoned me when the Hungarian attacked). They only have three provinces left (Tyrol, Burgundy and Switzerland) and are trying to regain control of Austria for the Hungarian. The former other HRE holding are now owned by the French and Polish (don't know the exact repartition). The French send me emissaries every two turns so I might be tempted to switch side and take Burgundy and Tyrol (I already have Provence) before the French do (the AI apparently loves to build a chapter house in Burgundy). Then I will only have to take Austria from the Hungarian when the papal warning expires to get Venice and Milan out of harm's way. If other catholic factions leave me alone, it will be time to send crusade from Malta to get the bonus for knights hospitaller (I bet that the first two crusades I launch will be made of Order foot soldiers just to mess with me but whatever ...). I nevertheless have to restrain myself otherwise the campaign might be basically over before the GH appears.