Current status of your campaign?

[Rhyfelwyr]

Finished my Byz campaign a few days ago, had fun storming Tenochtitlan with something like 4 siege towers, 4 sets of ladders, and a few rams. Elephants just did a charge through the street from the gate and smashed into the General in the city square. Fun way to finish, domination (own all map) with a couple of turns remaining.

Anyway now I'm playing as the Turks, at turn 42 right now. I had been planning on blitzing the world and getting lots of uber dread Generals, but thought that with the inevitable Mongol invasion I'd be better off getting high chivalry characters and developing my settlements. Caesarea is already being upgraded to a citadel. I own 13 regions, composing of most of Turkey (yet to grab Smyrna and Trebizond), took Constantinople via Jihad, snatched Thessalonika soon after, and have defended it through the efforts of Sultan Jalal (around 7 command, 10 chivalry, 6 authority) who just wiped out 3 Byz family members and is now 61 years old. On the eastern front, I had been allied with the Egyptians, but they betrayed me not long after when I was besieging Aleppo, apparently the Turks are not allowed to touch their monopoly on the Holy Land. Anyway I'm now fighting against them, I've halted development and raised taxes to fund a largely merc army of Afghan Javelinmen and various cavalry which have worked their way down to Acre, which has been put under siege. I'll probably continue to Gaza, and then I'll just focus on getting armies to fight the Mongols. I may launch a Jihad to Tblisi and take Trebizond on the way, they would make a nice barrier against the eastern hordes.

Well that's how things stand at the moment.

Also how do I get Naptha Throwers BTW? Never seen those guys before...