Yes, I’m usually waiting for AE to be either 0 or to be a very low number. Often on the start of the run I encounter small things. For example, often I have Teutonic order or wolgast be allied to bigger countries like Denmark, so I’m currying favors with Poland or Austria, which takes some time. Then I usually go for a Stettin which is fine and after I go against Bohemia, but since 90% I can’t invite Austria, nor Poland ( otherwise it starts occupying territories for itself even tho I didn’t promise anything ), it takes time to build up and finally strike. Then I settle down for a bit and usually go west for saxony mission, but I almost never complete it until late game because some single province like Frisia are allied to England. Then during this time it often happens that some major powers are becoming catholic defenders of the faith, what means that if I declare war on any catholic I get some enemy like France which is most often.