DBWI AHC wank England

Form and hold the Angevin Empire, unite England and Scotland under England, use that to conquer Ireland, then move on to take all of France. Interfere in Germany to prevent the rise of Germany, colonize North America and block the French out of colonizing there, invade Algeria and take land there, and then use your footholds to dominate the Scramble for North America and to have a good shot at the Scramble for Africa. Then, have a VOC-equivalent conquer Indonesia, South Asia, and India, and somehow unite that (probably through vassalization and tributary systems). Also, you need to screw Russia, maybe have a Herzenite revolution pop up where they are? If you do get a Herzenite revolution, take advantage of that and start carving parts of Southern Russia out while cutting the rest down to size.

You should be able to own almost a third of the world this way, and if you can hold it together England proceeds to become the country that most likely unites the world.
 
Form and hold the Angevin Empire, unite England and Scotland under England, use that to conquer Ireland, then move on to take all of France. Interfere in Germany to prevent the rise of Germany, colonize North America and block the French out of colonizing there, invade Algeria and take land there, and then use your footholds to dominate the Scramble for North America and to have a good shot at the Scramble for Africa. Then, have a VOC-equivalent conquer Indonesia, South Asia, and India, and somehow unite that (probably through vassalization and tributary systems). Also, you need to screw Russia, maybe have a Herzenite revolution pop up where they are? If you do get a Herzenite revolution, take advantage of that and start carving parts of Southern Russia out while cutting the rest down to size.

You should be able to own almost a third of the world this way, and if you can hold it together England proceeds to become the country that most likely unites the world.
Sure? No Idea why the empire would be called the Angevin Empire. Not to mention the fact any sort of England that would rule over france would become french. The demographics in England have always been terrible. Maybe if William the "Conqueror" didn't kill Harold Godswin in his failed invasion an English State could have remained unified, but with his death and in instability of the various English invasions just means that England would be a land of petty kingdoms and areas ruled.

Personally I can't imagine William's invasion going any better than OTL so if he get's thrown off with Harold still living. Harold could have fought off the Norwegian/Danish invasion which means their would be no Dane Law and Mercia would still be English. And without the instability that brought on the Welsh uprsing wouldn't have been able to split off from England, Nor the Scottish invasion been able to ply off York from England. And once that went the whole apple cart fell apart with the kingdom being spit between Which means England would have been able to remain a modest if respectable Kingdom on the par of Medieval Denmark.

That said I can't imagine This unified England would have been able to do much subjugating. Ireland got it's act together fast, and Whales was always going to be a pouder Keg. Even the Scots got taken out by the Highland Coup. The Celtic nations would spend much of their time meddling in English affairs like OTL, because these various kingdoms always had more people than they knew what do with, with their insane birthrates. English wanking requires more luck than most to go against the trends of the era
 
Is England still a vassal state of Poland-Lithuania in this challenge?
That was one bad bid for the English Throne at a time when their were like 10 claimants. Personally I think The Poles keep up that act at this point cause they are annoyed at all the English plumbers
 
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Not seeing their unified period interrupted might seem the best place to start, though honestly plenty of other major powers have had civil wars before, and plenty have come out stronger for it; the better idea, I'd say, is to look for some way England could unify the isle of Britain, somehow bringing Whales and Scotland under heel, before they could even think about a larger global role in the world.
 
England? Is that the name the kings of Wessex used for their planned expanded kingdom? If they had succeeded in uniting Germanic Britain, I think they could in time have been able to dominate all of Britain and probably also Ireland. One possible POD could be Wessex winning the battle of Ethandun (878).
 
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