Italy created the HRE so I went there and screwed them up The biggest problem with extended timeline is that blobs seems to have a real hard time failing and falling apart when they should, but I love the inflation of cash compared to the original and army sizes you almost never see vs clashes in the original and the fact that there's more losses i nthe wars. Playing West Francia was quite fun have created France - and still under a constant threat. It might be fun to try and unite the world under the Romans though. I have had fun games playing fairly early starts as Venice, Holland, England even wessex but it frustrates me I couldn't get english ideas and couple of the japanese tags. It depends almost entirely what you like to do in the campaign. Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts.