Hi all, currently I'm in the middle of a VH/VH campaign as Antioch and have lost Edessa to a Turkish stack led by their sultan. All I have are Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus and the Krak, to which I'm essentially holding on by my fingernails because the Turks keep coming in over the border. Worse still, the Kingdom of Jerusalem have lost all but Kerak to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians have already made forays into my territory and attacked a few forts, so it seems I may be fighting a two-front war soon.
I made a successful stab at Edessa, but the troops were too weakened after the battle and had to split in face of the oncoming Turkish stack of super-OP Hashashins. I then tried Adana, but found it has a garrison script and had to scoot. Finally, I just raided a random seaside Turkish city, sacked it, destroyed everything and sailed off with the goods, which will probably go into upgrading the Krak into a fortress. Meanwhile, Damascus, Aleppo and Antioch are all under siege, the last one not even having had enough time to retrain its garrison since the previous attack.
So then I thought, the Turks need some problems within their own borders so they stop concentrating on me. How to do that? Well, a crusade seems ideal, except there's one already in progress marked for Cairo. This wouldn't have been so big a deal except this crusade has already lasted 80 turns. To add insult to the injury, Cairo has remained free of seige for the majority of these turns. The crusaders are nowhere to be seen.
Big rant but I'm really frustrated at the moment. Is there anything I can do short of tracking down and assassinating all the crusaders (which is impossible without toggle_fow + most of the crusaders are faction leaders/heirs so they only have a 5-6% chance of dying)?