Gotta say, though, that I love this hot seat mode. It's the closest thing you can get to a true LAN multiplayer on the strategic map, so I'll take it!

I am playing as the Scots and my son is playing as the Spanish and right now we are allied together. He has crushed the Portuguese and is wiping out the Moors, as well as pushing into Toulouse and I have destroyed the English, control all the British Isles and am now punishing the French in Angers, Rennes, Paris, etc.

We have agreed to stay allied together and try not to get in each others' way, and so the race is on to see who will accomplish the victory condition first, helping each other out as best as possible, where we can, hence the dual push against the French at the moment.

A lot of fun, let me tell you!