Currently playing as Jerusalem (started around 1120, Rum has conquered half of Turkey and Allepo and Mosul are independant) and I have no idea what OP's talking about, even when I constantly get attacked for Galilee and religious defence, the only thing I lost was 2 counties and then just because they called a Jihad for it and I was defending Galilee at the same time (not sure why they keep choosing Galilee, it's in the middle of my lands and my personal upgraded holdings, insane atrition so by just waiting I can kill about half of any Shiite doomstack), and losing 2 counties doesn't feel like much of a loss when you just consumed Allepo, Mosul and Damascus.
And from the 2 counties I lost I even got one back via rebellion flip because I made peace for the Jihad with the weakest and furthest away enemy.
I see no issue with the Muslims power, only with massive empires power, which the Shiite Caliphate obviously is, with the game focussing on Christian states the two blobs that usually get bashed are the HRE ans ERE, but the Caliphate has the same problems, it never loses territory through rebellion, it keeps summoning massive doomstacks and will usually only gain lands, be it from Muslims or Christians.
It is a bit ridiculous how every muslim castle is a doom fortress that spawns 3k soldiers though, seems like historically this should be restricted for only the stronger provinces, not to mention that it's pretty hard to tax or levy the nomadic people that inhabited large parts of north Africa.
And from the 2 counties I lost I even got one back via rebellion flip because I made peace for the Jihad with the weakest and furthest away enemy.
I see no issue with the Muslims power, only with massive empires power, which the Shiite Caliphate obviously is, with the game focussing on Christian states the two blobs that usually get bashed are the HRE ans ERE, but the Caliphate has the same problems, it never loses territory through rebellion, it keeps summoning massive doomstacks and will usually only gain lands, be it from Muslims or Christians.
It is a bit ridiculous how every muslim castle is a doom fortress that spawns 3k soldiers though, seems like historically this should be restricted for only the stronger provinces, not to mention that it's pretty hard to tax or levy the nomadic people that inhabited large parts of north Africa.