My ships were all around the world, but the sicilians attacked the big C, so I lifted the siege, and my longboats are fighting the sicilan navy all over.

the steepes are united. Not that built up troops-wise, but lots of farmland and trade. Have the scandanavias, sweden and norway have teched up to Huscarles and the front is from lithuania, Kiev, Moldavia and Khazar.

So the empire isn't huge, but the cash is rolling in and the provinces are all in constant building.

The Turks(enemy) have Khazar, the Danes(allies) have Prussia and Denmark, the Byzantines(allies) are on all the rest of my borders. France has just declared a crusade against me, but i don't know how strong it is. and really any serious threat has to come through the Byzantines first.