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I have only had the game for a couple of weeks and I've been playing mostly as England on normal/normal. I have had a lot of success by throwing money at Scotland, improving relatons to the point where I can usually annex before the reformation. The extra troops and ships this brings makes an enormous difference to England.

Given that this is obviously the sensible thing to do why does the AI not do it?