How to win the 100 years war as England

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Solution
As some have said you can either get loans and use mercs to beat down France alone with more troops or you can restart until Burgundy, Aragon or castile (or 2-3 of them if you can) are friendly with you and rivalled to France or want their land so you can ally them and call them into the war promising land and giving them nothing. Make sure to improve relations with any nations that may join a coalition while at war and make sure you don't finish the war with France until after the war of the roses event has fired. When this event starts you get a new ruler and will lose the PU if you peace out before it.

Some players will now conquer France as England (rather than forcing the PU) due to enforcing PU's giving higher AE now, but you can...