Your Hay victory screen suggests that I may misunderstand how the raiding targets work in EB victory conditions. Do you still satisfy a raiding target condition if you hold the city continuously after capturing it? My understanding was that those didn't count unless they'd been released (and optionally recaptured), since I still saw the flashing white boxes around Sidon and the Crimea when I checked my victory conditions in my 1.0 Hay campaign. That's part of the reason I put the campaign on hold a second time - why keep slogging through the endless repetitive battles towards Greece and whatever I still needed in the east, when it looked like I wouldn't reach the victory screen anyway unless I illogically set free some perfectly good provinces I'd held for decades. But your victory screen is all blue in all the right places... Winning without horse archers is very impressive, btw! You didn't give in and use them even in the first war against AS?

That's by far the closest I've come to a formal victory in EB. I tend to get bored by frequent, repetitive large battles. Hayasdan's final series of reforms were good for keeping interest, though.