I was playing the Spainsh and had control of almost all of europe and the tip of africa. I had a small grasp of the holy land that I constently needed to keep an open supply line to. Long story short, the Timurds snuck up on me and cut my land line which was my main line because my navy was out to sea or holding off a scotish invasion. With my supplies crippled my troops in the holy land quickly evaporated and crumbled. The byizantines and the turks were the two major kingdoms left that I had to worry about and I was relived when the timurds attacked them instead of push west into more of my territory. I would of been fine if the mongols hadn't already been grinding down the byizantines and the turks. They broke through them before I had time to build up forts and defenses and started their push though spanish land at incredible speed. I think the game glitched at some point because the max troops the timurds could deploy was around 10000 fuckin troops at my cities. For those not fimilier with MII the max is about 2000 maybe. So I got to try and defend my giantic cities with about on average about 1000 troops. With my front broke I began plans of moving all troops, agents, generals and mercs to south america where I had  a small force.  I scorched the hell out of my earth and threw all my assassins at them to try to cripple them.  So now with my long campain done (like 300 turns) or about 40 hours of my life poured into my mighty empire. In about 2 hours I'm now a country with four cities two of which are rioting with about 700 troops defending all of them from apporching aztecs,  two generals, king and prince, one preist, one merchant and a spy. I've pretty much given up now because I just exited my game with all my cities under siege from thousands of aztecs, 20000 in debt and both my king and prince killed in battle. I shouldn't of put the game on the hardest settings because I'm seriously about ready to cry.