I sandbagged for five turns until I could get a better scope of the task and pre-position the armies to do the most damage on the first strike.
The target is the Arab horse resource outside Santiago which as near as I can tell is the only one.
So I take the settler out of Besancon and build a town on the saltpeter just north of Santiago as it make a nice hilltop salient into the Arab holdings.
Then in 1375 ask Abu poiltely to leave our lands and lo, and behold, he delcares war.
First out is to take and raze Grenoble, position the cannon on the hill with the armies, then take and raze Marseille.
Once that is done move the armies toward the horses, killing Arab cavalry along the way.
There may be bogies in Murcia and Santiago but all the exposed Arab cavalry are dead.
Now let's see what he throws at us....
Some naval bombardment and then a cav from Murcia attacks New Choybalsan, killing a cavalry, and there are cav moving up from the south but that's all folks....
In 1380 do a little mop up around New Choybalsan, removing the incoming threats. Lose a cavalryman to a killer barbarian, though.
Arab counter attack kills two cavalryman but they lose two.
In 1385 kill five more Arab cavalry, lose 1 and expose one. And block the pass with the armies, leaving two Arabs still alive but only one in striking distance.
Abu tries a flanking manuever to the east of New Choy and his troops get chewed. He loses six, we lose one.
I think Abu's cavalry is out of horses, he's given them bows instead. And a volcano erupts in his far south and wipes a tundra village off the map.
1395
The coast is now clear to begin the move south into the Arab Heartland once the armies heal up. The longbows were easily dealt with and there appear to be no more incoming cavalry.
Abu wants to talk, but has nothing meaningful to say. He has no more horses but won't give up anything we need.
I was wrong about the cavalry as five show up, four at New Choybalson and one in the homeland.
1400
Abu's flanking manuveur fails again as his cavalry are pummeled, leaving one to the south of Santiago. The landing at the homeland is foiled by a vet Keshik who gets his golden spurs, maybe Abu will land another soon and the Keshik will get an army for us.
It looks like Abu's peace entreaty was the last gasp of his Democratic government as he is now in anarchy....
I don't think we are going to get to SciMeth before the pre-build runs out, though we could swap to the palace. It will take took all of ten full turns to get to Electricity as the most beakers I could squeeze out were just at or a little over 400 per turn. SciMeth is only a little over 2850 so it can be done in 7 or so, anything much faster is not really feasible.
It looks like France has lost some ground to the Arabs as well.
I forgot to wake up troops for next player...
looks like we still have a bit of fun left in this one 
