The reasons for this action were to not allow the egyptians to become too powerful, the remaining possesions of the turks were far away, Antioch fell to a Egypt led Jihad so I could take it fast without breaking the alliance woth Jerusalem kingdom. After kicking the turks from the above mentioned provinces, I destroyed Egypt.

Alliances with the latin kingdoms - they never betrayed me :)Д¤. Very few buildings produced but mass produced every kind of available units - strategy was quantity over quality (pretty historically unrealistic because at this stage, the byz empire was pretty much broken, no way they could have amassed the huge number of units i did in such a short time)ДЈ. attacked the turks ASAP and managed to conquer the provinces of central asia minor and regions near Trebizond pretty fast - the opposition was a joke, they didn't counterattack a single city and against my 3 generals hitting in one place, nothing could survive.Дў. Just finished it on M/M (didn't bother to fight any battle myself ) in 87 turns.ДЎ. The Turks usually deal with them effectively, and there are no Timurids, which was a disappointment. Given time the Egyptians tend to be the strongest faction in that portion of the map by far. I confined myself to taking Alexandria, making peace, and allowing the Egyptians to make life hard for the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cairo will probably have Saladin, making it a harder target. The province adjoined Theodosiopolis is gold rich (forget the name) and is generally sheltered by some Antiochene possession, so it is well worth taking.ДЄttacking the Egyptians from the rear while they are occupied with the Kingdom of Jerusalem to take the major objective of Alexandria is usually not that hard. Those Anatolians possesions of the Turks are not conected to the their middle Eastern possessions, so provided that some forces are kept around Adana (Osman will appear there with a large stack also) and Theodosiopolis few problems will crop up. I attacked almost immediately with what I had in my Anatolian cities, and Constantinople. Secondly the Turks have some fairly large forces close to your capital. I nearly lost my capital to them, having ignored them after I had almost entirely destroyed their forces. Destroying them entirely is an idea as they will hire mercenaries to make good losses. Most of their forces are ranged or mounted, or both. The Latin Crusaders, basically three half sized stack of Venetian troops will arrive at Constantinople after not too many turns. I have found that the Crusader factions tend to be friendly.

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