started as france, my original plan was to expand on the surrounding rebel settlements and then attack england and take the whole british isles, as i was preparing to attack britain Venice invaded in the southeast, i repelled their initial attacks but then the holy roman empire invaded in the east, now i started fighting with both of them(defending against venice and counterattacking against HRE) but now Denmark invaded my in northeast too and took Bruges and Antwerp.
Then the pope decides to excommunicate me for attacking HRE and calls a Crusade on Toulouse, i succesfully defend it but it drags Portugal into the list of wars(Portugal is in control of almost the entire iberian peninsula). I have few allies, sicily and Milan are allied and are at war with Venice, but doing little impact, Venice got excommunicated so i could attack them but geographically its not the best place to attack for me right now. The pope is Spanish and spain is another of my allies, but that just brings it far enough for him to reconciliate my faction. so my question is, now what?
possibilities ive thought of:
invade portugal
invade HRE
invade british isles while defending continental territories
invade Venice
so far the easiest to do would be to invade Venice as it wouldnt piss off the pope, anytime i get aggressive with any other faction he warns me of excommunication(most of my enemies are loved by the pope, especially England which is why i doubt invading britain)
any ideas?