So I started out as England. I started with England.

I am playing the short medium mode.

To win I need to:

Take 15 Regions
Eliminate France
Eliminate Scotland

I started out with:

London
Nottingham
Caen

I thought to take te ENglish Isles first so I moved north and captured York from Rebels. Later I moved up again and I fought and took land from Scotland (forgot its name).

I moved north againa dn captured Eddinsburg from the Scotlands, after many fierce battles.

I finally moved North one last time and took their last city.

Scotland was eliminated.

France had started to attack my lands in Proper-Europe.

I responded by attacking, and chased them away.

However, I must eliminate them so I fought them and tok Angers from them, and I took a city from rebels.

I took another city from the French too.

I captured Dublin (In current day Irealnd) and captured the last rebel settlement in the English Isles. The English Isles are is all under my control now.

The French had many allies, and so now there is tension between me and them.

Milan, ally of France, started attacking me. I attacked them back.

I have the most land than any other faction.

Tomoorow I am planning to capture Paris.

Also so far I got excommunicated twice. And reconciled twice.

Every time I was about to destory scotland or attack France, the Pope always threatned to excommunicate me.

Also there was a crusade but I didn't join. The Crusaders from Venice won and took control of Acre from Egypt.

I only have Venice as an ally.

things are looking good then, good luck with Paris

This was the battle for Paris which I did against France and I won

Today I made many enemies because they were allies of France.
Spain became an enemy, and took a settlement of mines, but offered a ceasefire and I accepted. But later they started war, so now they are my enemies.
The Holy Roman Empire waged war and took a settlement of mines. I battled them and took a settlement that was already theirs and took my settlement that they took, back.

Portugal is my enemy, but didn't wage war so far...
Milan took 2 settlemnts of mines, but I took it back.
I had a short alliance with Sicily but it is in tatters because I sided with Venice when they became enemies.
I got excommunicated.
Inquiators from the Papal states, condemened a General of mine with heresy and they won and burned him at the stake
And France took 2 settlements of mines that I had taken them from it.

So now they have 3 settlements left...

oh, so you have to take them now, right?

Yes, I need to take all of France's settlements to win.

good luck with them

Well France got destoyed today

Sadly I didn't get the honor of destroying them though, their last settlment (I took 2 from its 3 of yesterday), they revolted and therefore they became a rebel settlement :

All I need to win now is get 1 more settlement.

It'll be hard since I have to deal with Portugal from the South and the Holy Roman Empire in the North East, and Milan from the South East

This is how the map looks like:


I am red. Notice the white part, that was origninally mines (really it was originally France's ) but the Portugese conquered it.

Also if you notice to the south, the blue piece. That was the last French settlement. And in the North you shoudl see a small nalck place, which the HRE took from me, and I shall get back!

good luck getting it back!

Wow I just found out today that in M2TW you coudl go to the "New World" where the Aztecs are!

I remember when I was playign as the H R E I got a message around 1400 saying "The World is Around", I never noticed that the map expanded to show the Americas lol!

ok, so I guess you are sending Drake on an expedition?

Who's Drake?

the english explorer

Umm....?

No....

I'll send tough ships over there. I heard I could send Carcas ships or this other type. Also the Euroepan ships are much stronger than the European ships int he game...so you'll have a hard time reaching the Americas with a Muslim faction...or so I heard.

oh, ok!

Do you think I should risk it and take Rome from the Papal states? If I do, I will automatically get excommunicated and all catholci factions will fight me, but lol, they already are.

I think you should go for it!

Alright, after I conquer, that place from Portugal I'll go to the Pope, to take my Cup of Glory lol

This pretty much summed up today. I am still continuing with England till I go to the New World...or at least conquer Spain, H R E, Portugal and Milan...also I got excommunicated (For the 4th time) for attacking H R E when the Pope told me not to.

It's not really fair, once, I am about to attack someone, he always tells me nto to attack.

just install a new pope of your choice

congratz on your victory, and can you install a pope?

Well first Ill ahev to assisantae the current pope (small chance) and then I need to have a priest with very high piety to go...and the catholic factions vote...

in other words, you cannot do so...

then kill this pope and get good with the next one

I could Hassan...I just need a really good assain and many allies

And Pried I coudl aslo do that...except that the Pope annoys me by threanting to excommunicate me when I am about to finsish a faction off.

is there any way to "oil" the pope?