I am the English in having taken France and unifing the British Isles I have a lot of experienced units but a very pissed off Pope and no rebels in view. The Pope then saves me by declaring a crusade against Jerusalem, this is perfect I create an uber crusade army (English Knights (mounted and dismounted), armoured swordsmen and retinue archers) all units two silver experience at least with a bout five on gold, I give it to my faction heir who is a 7 star general having killed a lot of Frenchmen. I then create a second army with another slightly worse general which is only half stack and send him off as well. Leaving me with two full stacks to defend France one in the North scaring the HRE and one in the South.

The Byxantines rule most of Asia Minor, the Turks have been destroyed, the Egyptians still hold Egypt but the rest of the middle east is Mongol. I avoid open battle and take Jerusalem with light casulties, my units are now decrusaded but I have two full stacks (the second had been reenforced with crusader units. I take Acre, Anitoch and Gaza and make peace and having build up my cities and citedals (Marsksman Ranges, Earls stables etc.) I turn my attention to Europe, the Mongols leave me alone and I want to focus on dealing with Portugal (which has the Iberian penninsular) and Denmark (Northern Germany) and the HRE (Southern Germany, Northern Italy). Anyway turns pass and the Timurids arrive, I don't notice them for abouyt 5 turns and then my watchtowers in Anitouch see them, and boy there are a lot of them, easily 10 full stacks. I immediatly start a build up, quite a lot of my best units were sent back to Europe with my faction heir and I only have a single full stack including some crusader units. I start Gaza and Acre churning out Longbow men and knights and put an army on the two bridges over the river that goes around Anitouch, any way I get them both up to nearly full stack and then the Timurids attack at the South-Eastern bridge. They can only attack with three armies at a time and they have to come over one bridge. I do the obvious thing and pack my infantry at one end and have my archers slaughter anything on the bridge and I do, in the first battle I lose 200 men and kill 2200, they have 5500 but by the time the battle runs out of time I have only killed 2200. They withdraw and as it is still their turn and they attack again and lose another 400 men, for around 2500, unfortunatly I am down to two full strength dismounted English knights, a unit of 20 English units and 60 Armoured Swordsmen, I do have one full strength Mounted English Knights and my general but cav aren't that good in this type of battle, my archers have suffered casulties but my ten units are all full strength bar one which is down to 15 after being used to renforce other units. One more attacks and they are going to break me. But they don't even though they have three full stacks left the leave me alive, god knows why. The next turn the wander off North to annoy the Mongols, the Holy land is saved and the Timurids have been savaged.