I wish you guys could have seen how the Byzantine empire developed in my game it was baffling to me how they hardly had to fight a real army but instead plenty of rebel ones. The only good thing for me in this is that I have a core of hardy veterans whereas they have mostly green soldiers. I've pretty much fought to a stalemate and standstill with them as we're faced off with full stack border armies but Antisocialmunky got me thinking about the coming Horde. Since I know they're gonna have to deal with this humongous steamroller army coming through I'm just gonna build up my provinces, upgrade my army and smash them after the Mongols hit...

Muahahahahahaha (in Evil, Deviant and Diabolical laugh)