For ease of access, this topic is for a list of the factions and their topics:

Playable

Muslim

1) The Ayyubid Sultanate
  1. Location: Egypt and South Palestine
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
2) The Abbasid Caliphate
  1. Location: South and Middle Iraq (Basra and Baghdad)
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
3) The Great Seljuks
  1. Location: "Persian Empire" - Iran + Azerbaijan
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
4) The Turkish Sultanate
  1. Location: Central Anatolia
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
    • Pre-Ottoman: Ghulams and abundant horse archers
    • Post-Ottoman: Medium-
  4. Weaknesses: Must wait for Ottoman Reforms to come into their own [until then they are merely a splinter of the Seljuks]
5) Khwarezmshah
  1. Location: Transoxania (Central Asia, Modern day Uzbekistan)
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths: Heavy Daylami Infantry, Superheavy cavalry, Light Horse Archers.
  4. Weaknesses:
6) The Sultanate of Ghazni
  1. Location: Northern Afghanistan
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths: Heavy Spearmen, Abundant Ghulam cavalry, Medium Horse Archers, Hybrid foot archers.
  4. Weaknesses: "Jack of all Trades" Horsemen and archers.
7) The Ghorid Sultanate
  1. Location: Northern Afghanistan/Khyber Pass
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths: Fanatical Ghazi Jihadists,
  4. Weaknesses:
8) The Zengid Sultanate
  1. Location: Syria/Mosul
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
Christian

9) The Byzantine Empire
  1. Location: Western Anatolia, North/South Anatolian Coast, Greece
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
10) The Kingdom of Jerusalem
  1. Location: Levant Coastline
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths: Strong Foot Spearmen, the absolute best cavalry charge
  4. Weaknesses:
11) The Kingdom of Armenia
  1. Location: South-East Anatolia
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
12) The Kingdom of Georgia
  1. Location: Northern Caucasus Mountains
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths: Strength in all categories.
  4. Weaknesses: Limited Recruitment Range.
Hindu

13) The Rajput States
  1. Location: South-East (On map) India
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths: Elephants, high moral and charge Rajput Knights, large amounts of infantry
  4. Weaknesses: Except with Elephants, they are outdone by their neighbors in all kinds of units. They lack abundant heavy infantry and horse archers especially.
Pagan

14) The Kypchaks
  1. Location: Russian Steppe
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses: Pitiful and barely evident infantry.
Emergent

15) The Mongol Empire
  1. Location: Emergent in Central Asia
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
16) The Timurids
  1. Location: Emergent in Central Asia (Modern day Turkmenistan, I think)
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
17) The Sultanate of Delhi
  1. Location: Emergent in India (Northern India)
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
Rebels, and *Possible* additional Factions

18) Discussion of Minor Factions

19) Principality of Antioch
  1. Location: Western Syria (Antioch)
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses:
20) The Kingdom of Sindh
  1. Location: Southern Pakistan
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses: "Jack of All trades, Master of none" roster.
21) The Emirate of Oman
  1. Location: Oman, coastal control of Baluchistan (South of Afghanistan, west of Sindh), possibly control of Horn of Africa's province.
  2. Armies:
  3. Strengths:
  4. Weaknesses: Heavy reliance on AOR and mercenaries. No Native Horse Archers. Lacking cavalry roster.