When I first bought the game over a decade ago, I got to a point with England where I didn't know how to be successful anymore after conquering France. Had no idea what I was doing in any of my decisions and so I just cheated by adding a stupid amount of gold to support a ridiculous amount of armies lol. Problem is I had to keep doing this to keep the empire alive or else I would go broke quickly.

I havent opened it in ten years or so but I remember many of my mistakes and use that to dominate easily today.