Began with the Crecy scenario. English get triple taxes and free units due to Nationalism. No free units. But, for the nationalism event to take effect, the other side has to occupy your home areas. I don't see how this could be true for the English at the beginning of the Crecy scenario.
Corruption takes half the treasury.
I have only played the game solitaire, but the random events really make things interesting. Phillipe died, but was replaced by Jean and DuGuesclin. Edward fell in battle and was replaced eventually by Fastolf. He, in turn, fell to a conspiracy. The Black Plague hit, wiping out mucho English.