Factions You Could Never Figure Out

[Vantek]

Not sure if making more rebels is enough to make Almohads and Egyptians hard, though it would make them harder of course. The problem with rebels is that they don't attack you. What makes a faction hard is when you have trouble keeping a small border with other factions, who will therefore always remain a danger. What makes Almohads and Egyptians easy is that they can always keep a very small border. Even if you put very strong rebels in Tripoli and Antioch, if you leave a path past them then Egyptians can just ignore these provinces and either take on Almohads or go north, up to Georgia and Constantinople. Only if you made these provinces factions, and strong ones at that, could it become genuinely difficult. Or, and this applies to Almohads as well, if you cut them off completely with rebels, so that you will have to go by sea to any good targets, or amass a huge army to crush the rebels, perhaps then it will become genuinely difficult too.