Help needed. France in high era

[Blodrast]

well done afrit.
My thread was removed because my settings were messed up and I thought the old thread on French was gone; it's not gone, and you can find it in the Guides section.
Here is a link to it.
Blitzing the Eggy as well is interesting, especially if it works ;)
I found it a bit too daring for me, in that the Byz also attacked me on occasion, and you can definitely not produce decent quality troops to hold against both; your crusade troops, while very good, won't last forever, and in the beginning you can mostly produce crap in Antioch, Tripoli and Cyprus.

Edit: a few more notes:

- HRE seems to focus on Burgundy and Southern France, most of the time. I am not sure what their early aggressiveness depends on, but some of the time they attacked in the first 2-3 years (without my attacking them first).
- building stuff in Toulouse: I wouldn't rely on being able to keep it for long; in my experience, I was attacked there by italians and aragonese - once by both at the same time...
It's not essential to keep it in the beginning, I believe; sure, it's useful afterwards for CK, but basically I've seen several games where the Aragonese were fixed on Toulouse, got it, and then sat tight and nice for hundreds of years, although they had plenty of chances to get neighboring provinces...