anyone have odd expansion habits?

[Gelgoog]

maybe its just me, but i get tired of just expanding by taking the closest provinces, this game around as saka i decided to try a different approach, after taking the first few provinces around me, i decided to make gather 2 stacks and make a bee-line down to the persian gulf and setup a colony there, then i did the same to sweden so i can get an invasion going on the british isles. i want to get all the islands in my possesion to act like invasion bases and far off colonies. but they are also very isolated so that im open to attack with much way of getting reinforcements. but this seems realistic to me, seeing how the greeks would do far off colonies when they had the chance. anyone else try this?

[invictus]

The closest thing i have done to that is as epirus loaded up every unit i had except 1 for garrison purposes and rush my way to the British isles and establish a new home land there. -Leon