Nobles vs Scoundrels SHC
It will be you and Caliph MK II against Frederik and 2 Nizars. Watchout for the horses!
In this battle you will be battling 2 Nizars (it sounds like the narrator says "Nazir, I don't get it). and Emperor Frederick. Someone who honestly may be in contention for the best overall AI in the game. Teaming with you is the Caliph, who feels bad and decided to use his upgraded "Wazir" persona to better help. Did you know in the 1st trail Caliph only teams with you once and in this one Wazir helps you only once?
Anyways, MK II Caliph should in general hold up his end of the bargain rather well. The AI starts off with an advantage but it is ok. The biggest problem IMO is the fact that you have SOOO little space to work with. And if you stretch out too much you will have Fred's Mangonels giving you a BAAAD TIME!.
So the good news is MK II Caliph has the resources for an alright economy available to him so he should have the money to defend himself. So you don't really have to worry about your team mate, the problem is you have so little space as mentioned before. You will have to find a way to calm down the onslaught of Fred's Knights destroying all your hot cheeto farms and Assassins probably NOT sent to give you gift baskets by the Nizar.
I used Crossbowmen, near my keep. It was far enough to do a degree of keep to keep fighting against the yellow Nizar and stay away from the range of Fred's Mangonel. I had another tower near the stone outside of the near oasis. Also had crossbowmen, they tended to do rather well against Fred's knights and the Assassins. You can also do moats, it keeps them away rather well.
For economy I used the farmer and stone glitch. May or may not do a guide for that (watch the video). I simply made my Horse Archer and Pikemen combo. Fred built a trebochet that gave me some issues but aside from that it was simply a situation of making horse archers and defeating my enemies with the Pikemen. Simply make a decent economy any way you can.