Well this is the first time I've ever actually played a high campaign. This is mainly due to the fact that I've never bothered to mod the high and late periods before. Well two days ago I decided to do just that. With the landbridges removed, peasants gone and Inns a thing of the past, as well as a fully functional Sahara province. Editing the startpos file again, I gave Lesser Armenia and Georgia to the rebels and started a Byzantine campaign. Now with only the reasonably historically accurate Nicea and Rhodes, making up the Empire of Nicea.

The result is a very interesting and challenging campaign. So far I've conquered southwards to Syria and Tripoli, northwards to Georgia and westwards to Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria. It was slow going at first due to almost constant war.