I know right can match them and the HRE and still have a good 30K left, and that screen shot was taken just a few years after Miquel IV took the throne, so thats counting the various short reign modifiers. Just got done playing quite a good twenty years and well those stats are even more scary for the other realms
Think its almost to the point where the only thing that can stop us de Forez's is us de Forez's But I think the GH's problem was a fairly strong Rus, but as I was playing I had a good laugh because there was a random 500 man band from the Golden Hord just traveling around France seeing whatsup. Guess they were the local tourists coming to check out the Empire built by de Forez blood sweat and tears.
You could say they were the official embassy come to kow-tow before the true paramount rulers of the world.