I also started my first game as Holland, and within 3 years DoW Hainaut. What do I get? Adolf von Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
Strangely enough having that name actually made me probably pre-disposed to inherit Lüneburg later
I hope your game goes as well as mine does so far. It's 1445, and I've conquered all dutch provinces, except for Friesland (who got stupidly annexed by the brittish). I even managed to annex as far as Köln.
My second HTTT game will be AARified. For now, I want another update here!
Soon, my friend. Soon. Right when my sister leaves the computer. This crappy Linux laptop just isn't enough to play EU3
Will follow. So, where exactly do you plan to colonize? Historical or grab what you can?
Well, partly historical. I will go for America and India as in RL, but not to Africa. I won't take the exact same colonies Netherlands really had, but eventually I might end up taking them, too.
I updated the first post with some house rules.