Well, I've successfully executed my attack on the Papacy...just as they were about to excommunicate me AGAIN for my continuing attack on the Germans (the previous Pope had already excommunicated me but he passed away).
I'm glad I waited a few years to build a really big army in Greece, I had about 3500 men that I shipped across the Adriatic to the Papal States, Naples and Rome. Took Rome and Papal States in a year and Naples the year after. [img]graemlins/evillaughter2.gif[/img] Now I've installed my puppet and can pursue my war with the Germans with impunity (they just keep conceding provinces to me, I reckon they'll make a stand in Burgundy).
Once I get the Germans out of the way it'll be the Hungarians' turn, then I can start thinking about the West - Aragon, France and Spain...I've now got an empire that stretches from Finland, Muscovy, Novgorod and Volga-Bulgaria to the east, through to the Crimea, Bulgaria, Constantinople, Nicea and Greece to the south, then on to Naples, Rome and the Papal States, through to Scandinavia to the north, with pretty much all of Germania under my boot. The only provinces within central Europe I don't hold are the Hungarian provinces, but I'll take those soon. I've also got Scotland, Ireland and Northumbria. Finland and Lithuania and Livonia are starting to get annoying - they keep on rebelling, and I'm starting to spend a fortune on garrisons there.
As for the Horde, good idea - I'll whup them when they eventually rock up anyway. I'll be their first port of call I think...
