Medieval II: Total War Official Thread

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Lets try and guess the factions:

Certs (Well not confirmed but very likely based on historical prominence)

English
French
Holy Roman Empire
Papacy
Spanish
Almohads/Almoravids
Egyptians
Turks
Byzantine Empire
Polish
Hungarians
Danish
Siculo-Normans

What capacity? (A faction in this area will certainly be there but what form will it take?)

Italians (One faction, or a split, with both the Venetians and the Genoese?)
Russia (The Kievan Rus and Novgorod, or just the one Russian faction?)
Aztecs (Can we expect them as a faction, or maybe just rebels with Aztec units? Perhaps the Incas and Mayans will join them? Would this put it past the apparent 21 limit?)

Other possibilities (Includes lesser powers and also later emerging factions)

Swiss
Burgundians
Golden Horde
Swedish
Norwegians
Irish
Kingdom of the Isles
Scots
Welsh
Bretons
Navarrese
Valencians
Portuguese
Ilkhanate
Khwarzimian Empire
Cumans
Bulgarians
Serbians
Wallachians
Teutonic Knights
Crusader States
Latin Empire
Nicaean Empire (1205-1261)
Epirote Empire
Trebizond
Khazars
African faction (depends on how far the map goes down)
Armenians
Georgians
Danishmendid Turks
Karaman Turks
Flemish
Bohemians
Lancastrians/Yorkists (England might divide once the WOTR begins)
Pisans
Knights Hospitaller
Lithuanians
Croatians

Ok some are long shots but there's the pool, now you've got to decide. Thing is, we don't even know how far the map goes, I mean it might go all the way to India for all we know!