After gaining scotland as a vassal, and passing Absolute Crown Authority, I have 70k troops, which makes the HRE a lot less scary (I can get local superiority fairly easily esp. if I have free boats from a defensive war).

Other upside is the Mongols reformed their religion, and declared a succesful holy war on Hungary....so now they have a huge area of land right next to the HRE. They also trouned the HRE, who joined the war (though I cannot at the moment declare on them, as I have an 75% size faction from people unhappy about crown law changes and a title revoke).

Thinking I should just finish conquering the UK, but it will be a lot of ****ty tiny wars, though Ireland will be super fast (hardest part will be getting CBs).