The one thing I don't like about M2TW is that some of the factions aren't balanced well. I tryed playing France for my first game as per reccomendation and by 1150. I was dragged into a 7 front war, with 10 enemy factions
. I was quickly decimated.
My current Campaign is with England and I own 51 regions. In 1250, I own pretty much all of Europe. I was an ally with the Moors for 150 years (I changed the turns to be 1 year each), I gave them hundreds of thousands of florins, then just recently when I took a Spanish town in Africa they attacked. I am now exterminating them; normally I cannot force myself to do this, But after that long a friendship...