read guide forums.

pretty sure I wrote something for Eggy.

attack Syria with everything around it except for Antioch which remains in place.

leave a token peasant in egypt and stream all troops toward Syria.

almos wouldn't fight you this early.

next turn smash into Rum and then attack whichever province the Sultan is and he shall be ransomed to the other.

then crush the turks utterly the next turn.

give gov of Rum to the 6* fine leader camel and make him into a 7*.

spam troops out of every place you have and usually attack 2-3 turns later the Byz and strike at Const. through Trebizond.

you can afford to lose treb. just hold onto Const. for dear life and you would have crippled the Byz.

after you fully secure Trebizond and Const, hit Anatolia and then hunt the Byz emperor from one part of the empire to another, collecting ransoms as you go.

you end up with 50k or so of moola at the very least and all the lands of the Turks and Byz around 1105 or so.

secure the black sea rim and tech for ships and trade. the game is yours.

Mongols are best handled by a combo of saracen inf and arbalests.

naptha can also do wonders for vaporizing their cav.

defend Kiev from Khazar and you have huge bridge battles.