Well, team evil pretty much imploded before we ever really got to the point to work together. We lost Pythium on what, turn 3? I didn't really get too much direct visibility as to what was going on to the East, but I never really got too much opportunity to help out because of my slow start. I personally had a lot of trouble getting traction initially because of my initial placement. This placement would have been super sweet for another nation/build or in a game with a longer horizon, but about 80% of my options for immediate expansion were high population farmlands with knights - while I had high resources troops and wanted to blood hunt!
Even my lich pretender (Sauron) couldn't really take many of those provinces without some research being done and by the time I got on top of it I had managed alright by my strongest ally had 3 provinces left. I'm doing ok, and could even conceivably put up a fight on the 2:1 war going on now but it seems kind of silly with 3 more enemies growing unmolested in the mean time.