Who's your favorite minor power?

[Martok]

Anyway, I noticed some unusually powerful Armenians (this was in High):

Is that normal? I've never seen them crush the [remnants of the] Byz so easily and quickly, the pic is taken in 1240-1245.

Depends. If you started the game in Early, then yes it would be very unusual for the Armenians to even have survived that long, let alone prospered. They generally get eliminated by the Byz, Eggies, or Turks within the first 20 years or so.

If you started playing at the beginning of the High period, though, then the Armenians have a better chance of getting somewhere. None of their three original neighbors are as powerful, and the Crusader States seem to have a tendency to be friendly towards them.

[King Henry V]

My favourite minor faction is the Crusader States in BKB. OK, they're not that minor as they have three provinces, but they have great units and are surrounded by some pretty tough factions (Eggies, Turks and the Byz). I just love using the "trident" strategy against the Egyptians: making two feint attacks and one real one. Then you usually have the Golden Horde popping up in that neck of the woods.

[heroic hungarian]

9definitely georgia on bkb final, late, there uzbek heavy cavalry are great i now rule the whole of asia minor africa and the balkans

[satchef1]

the Crusader States seem to have a tendency to be friendly towards them.

as do the mongols

the armenians have things pretty easy at the start of high. The trouble starts when the crusaders run out of ayyubid lands to pinch, then its Didebul and Armenian Infantry vs Templar/Hospitler/Teutonic Mounted + Foot Knights, backed up by Turcopoles (pretty brutal enemy tbh)