Cool to see a Friesland AAR (I live there ), too bad it ended so quickly. It's quite a challenging, but fun nation to play. There's lots of things that can go wrong. I usually join Burgundy's alliance at the start and hope I can take Holland from Luxembourg. Then I get into England's alliance and try to isolate Burgundy, so I can take Zeeland and Flanders off of them. After that it gets easier.