Originally Posted by
DonnyBrasko
I eventually lost that game, took stock of why and restarted another game as KOJ.
This time I took Balbaq, Damaskus and then Antioch, with my initial starting army and choosing to spend all my coin on economic improvements. The ERE landed an army at Antioch and did nothing for a long time. I proceeded to to march all the way into Al-ruha (Edessa) and take about three further cities. At this point the ERE launched an attack upon Antioch.
This was just the excuse I needed, they were also at war with the Seljuks of Rum, so I was planning on going for Cyprus eventually. I Blitzkrieged through Cyprus and their southern and central cities, they however were close to crushing the Seljuks (along with Armenia, my allies who have agreed to "provide assistance" against ERE, but have failed to do anything yet...) so I gifted one or two cities to the Seljuks to keep them in the fight. In the meantime the 4th Crusade showed up at constantinople, I had big hopes for them but unfortunately they were replused in 1 turn!!!
Currently I'm in a bit of a fix, the Abbyuids have just declared war. I was able to rush a lot of troops (bound for Asia Minor) to reinforce Gaza. They assinated King Baldwin st Kerak as I had three large armies engaing theirs. One army went rebel at this point. My troop numbers in Asia Minor has resulting in my campaign running out of steam their and in the Mediterranean, the ERE navy has the upper hand again (they're an economic powerhouse).
Any thoughts on how to proceed?