i started replaying over the weekend for some stupid reason. got my ass kicked in the first round. the last game i played was on an inland sea map with me, catherine, sandwiched between montezuma and isabella.
i thought that it was going to be a short game for me with their "wonderful" personalities. i scraped by in the beginning. i closed my boarders to everyone so isabella and monty couldn't team up on me. monty ruined a few of my cities but didn't take anything in the beginning. and once i got to cossacks izzy fell to their boot. however half way through my campaign monty tried to take my border cities again. i fended him off and destroyed izzy.
i finally won with a domination win after killing off monty with some help from mao.