Independent (AI)
Hapsburgs (AI)
French (Ingvar)
Spanish (McMonkey)
Swedes (Cupcoffee)
English (Cobra)
Dutch (Karlheinz)
I know I'll be heading out for a few days, but I thought I could give you all the chance to try this classic scenario again, it tends to take a few days to get these things started anyway.
It's complex and not all nations are equal here so I'd recommend you take a good look at it before joining.
As for house rules, I'm open to suggestions, as well as tweaks.
For example, one thing that caught my eye was that the artillery and revetted forts are designated as trade units, which means anybody could potentially build an infinite amount of them for any city, so we might want to take a look at fixing that, either through limitations or perhaps giving them the role of settlers to make the upkeep.
Also, I picked Sweden for obvious reasons, but I'm willing to pick someone else if it will get the game started.