Just for reference: I tried the aggressive strategy a third time. This time I did not recruit any peasants or mercs. I used the same strategy but recruited archers instead of peasants and mercs). I achieved almost the same result; the difference being I only got as far as Cyrenacia before running out of steam so to speak. Year 721, in Egypt, the Moors had about 1000 troops to my 600 and there was no way they would retreat without a fight. But this was their last province and I had a similar overall situation to my last report.