Ah, well thanks for the advice, here's how it's going so far

It's 1201, I've captured Sweden and Norway, as well as Egypt, put down with relative ease an Almohad resurgence, dealt with a pesky crusade, expanded my trade routes, improved my farming methods so that all of my provinces (except the really really worthless ones like Scotland and Cyrenacia) have at the very least 40%, still upgrading my troop producing provinces, finally constructed a brothel (NO!!! ADULTERY!!!! CALL THE POPEMAN AND HIS INQUISOTORS : ). Had a small war against the Egyptians which are now allies of mine (after severely restricting their navy)....I plan on using them against my next target, another ally of mine (apparently I'm a bonafide Anglo Benedict Arnold), the Turks since the Egyptians. In a few rounds it's on to the Danes, and after the Germans.

Money wise, I have a somewhat steady flow of cash of about 5500-5800 florins(or was it 6500-6800 florins???), and 70 thousand and some change florins in the bank.

Troop wise, I won't give as much importance into type as model.