After achieving 100% victory as the Danes at an easy difficulty level, I thought I would try out another SP campaign. I picked the Almohads and upped the difficulty level to normal. I decided to control the taxation levels myself this go-round since it seems to provide greater options for preventing rebellions.

As the Danes I basically launched a campaign of aggressive conquest from day one and kept pushing and pushing. I didn't even develop my fleet of ships until the endgame when I needed them to start moving my troops over greater distances and I needed to get to the islands provinces.

This time, I've taken the time to improve the farmland and construct buildings more methodically, as well as construct a fleet to increase my income through trade.

I thought I was doing things alright, but now I am pinned down on the Iberian Penninsula. I took my time and took over Spain, Portugal and the other provinces around them (even elminated the Spanish altogether). Now I have my troops pinned down along my northern borders with the French, Germans and Italians all massing their troops against me. Add to them a German crusade and an Italian crusade against me, and you'll see my problem. I have enough troops massed that each time they attack they withdraw and call off the assault. Yet, if I try to attack one of them, it will leave me open to attack from one of the other factions. As the Danish I had built up enough troops to attack multiple provinces at once in order to avoid such a problem. Right now, I have enough to defend, but not enough with which to attack.

Add to this the sudden re-appearance of the Spanish who are now driving me insane on the Iberian Penninsula and the Egyptians in the east who have a Jihad against me for taking Egypt. I tried making peace with them before taking Egypt, but they ignored me. Now I face their Jihad.

My bank account is low, my troops are in need of retraining and upgrading, the troops I have (quite numerous actually) are all pinned down unable to advance, and what fleet I managed to build up has been whittled down by storms and Italians.

Any advice for a poor struggling Almohad?