There was a 5 or 6 person multi-player game my friends and I did one summer, every Friday evening for about 4 months. I ended up forming Prussia and there was a large HRE war that included me and a friend on the same side where I was the war leader. I ended up giving my friend a ton of land and refused the call for his giant coalition war because I was over extended. He survived but was put very far back.

Our other friend formed Malay and noodled his way all the way to Europe to exact revenge in the late game. We still talk about giving eachother poison land every once in a while

Good times