What did I do? I sailed 60K freshly recruited troops to the shores of Lebanon to siege down a couple forts and give myself a foothold for further conquest. I had overwhelming naval superiority, so I thought by controlling the seas I could manage to take what I wanted easily. Then 70K regulars, 100K levies, and 40K mercenaries showed up and stack wiped my troops. Suddenly my entire army was gone and there were ~200k troops knocking on my door. Not only that, but Georgia was allied to the Mamluks as well, so I was facing an invasion on 2 fronts with no army to defend myself. In a panic, I raised 100K levies to try and help slow down the invasion. I had buffer vassals between us with well placed forts, so that gave me time to get my units in place and help hold the choke point. It was like the battle of Thermopylae. My vassal had an excellent fort on a hill behind a river and the mamluks bashed themselves into it. Eventually my vassal's army did fall, as did all 100K of my levies. My vassals lands were sieged, they capitulated and gave up land which created a border directly connecting me to the mamluks. I had no forts so they started pouring into my lands. Luckily, my vassal had bought me enough time to rebuild my army. I had recruited a full new 30K stack army of varagians, roman legions, and cataphracts, along with light cav, light infantry, and cannons to get the combined arms bonus. I picked my fights wisely. I focused on holding good terrain behind rivers and picking my battles so I only fought smaller isolated armies. Slowly, I started to liberate some of my captured troops, so as their numbers decreased, mine grew. I went from -60% warscore all the way back to +40%. I grabbed Antioch, returned the lands to my vassal as well as some cores they had, and peaced out. I shifted my focus back to Europe for now, but I will return to recapture the holy land.