Greetings!

i'm in a Milanese campaign, turn 40ish
*started by purchasing bologna, vienna, and innsbruck from the HRE, and did the same w/ marseilles, toulouse, and bordeaux from france.
*starved out florence, followed by a crusade to tunis led by 4 generals, and took 2 rebel isles while on the way
+took dijon, bern, zaragoza, pamplona (portugal), later zagreb and valencia, but left rennes alone
+develop northern, western borders to produce at least italian sp. mil/ armoured seargents ASAP
*simultaneous amphibious assaults in Sicilian holdings, 3 turns after crusade
*simultaneous assault to Venetian holdings in mainland Europe 3 turns
*plan to wipe out byzantines through simultaneous amphibious assault thru iraklion failed due to a) expansion from sofia to iasi b) declared war on me before i was halfway ready
*later crusade to corduba (just finished)

Borders
W- iberia, except for 2 spanish initial holdings (i'm allied and plan to avoid betrayals);
N- horizontal line spanning bordeaux/dijon/bern/innsbruck/vienna
E- zagreb, ragusa, greece (except durazzo=gift to pope so i can blitz thessal), plus nicaea
S- marrakesh, algiers, tunis, sicily, iraklion and rhodes

Allied to: papal St, spain, france, hre, poland, hungary
Factions
England - normally passive in expansion, same here, and predict they'll be booted out by scotland
France - stuck inland (ang, par, rhe), looks like buying their ports disabled;
spies suggest an attack on caen
HRE - was able to recover after losing vienna and bologna early to me; got 1st port in antwerp and took metz, breslau, and prague (from poles)
Spain - starter cities, may backstab me any turn
Moors - got Timbuktu before i got their last starter cities, imams still alive
Danes - stettin, hamburg, and stockholm, at war w/ poles
Poles - doing well, but at war w/ more than 1 neighbor
Hungary - failed to expand anywhere, recently took bucharest from byz
Byzantines - once 2nd overall, before taking a bite at me, left with sofia, nicosia and iasi, got peace with them after taking constantinople and nicaea; still a big threat
Russia - unhindered expansion, creeping up the standings, racing w/ the poles for kiev
Turks - very successful and took aleppo, edessa, smyrna and tblisi; have merchants as far as krakow
Egypt - shares borders w/ the turks and 3rd overall. barring problems they're my next target through crusades (city army through alex and cairo, castle army through acre before joining up generals before assault)
Sicily, Venice and Portugal ousted