Beating the Horde?

[mcsproot]

Considering how short the event is and how tough their fleets are, is it possible?

Or is it more about containment and maybe killing the khan rather than destroying the Horde?

[mvlbrotherg24]

If you kill the khan you slow down the horde by a great margin. You can also contain them until the Khan dies. I tried killing the khan, but unfortunately for me, I could not make it to him in time before he died of “Natural Causes.”

[Flamio]

The horde is all about surviving, not beating IMO. Once the Khan dies the hord can stop for quite a long time, or even forever sometimes.

[mcsproot]

Originally posted by mvlbrotherg24:

If you kill the khan you slow down the horde by a great margin. You can also contain them until the Khan dies. I tried killing the khan, but unfortunately for me, I could not make it to him in time before he died of “Natural Causes.”

The Horde doesn't seem to 'stop' per se and keep doing what they're doing. But the death of the Khan does begin a countdown to when the Horde ends.

Originally posted by Flamio:

The horde is all about surviving, not beating IMO. Once the Khan dies the hord can stop for quite a long time, or even forever sometimes.

I think the worst case scenario (from a regular empire perspective) is if they form a Khanate. Best case they fracture into multiple tiny states that fight each other and are easy to mop up. I don't know of other outcomes.

[ExavierMacbeth]

Originally posted by mcsproot:

I think the worst case scenario (from a regular empire perspective) is if they form a Khanate. Best case they fracture into multiple tiny states that fight each other and are easy to mop up. I don't know of other outcomes.

I dono, it really depends on how your playstyle is and what the Kanate ends up being. The one that ended up near me ended up being positive enough with me to get a NAP right off the bat so I used them as a buffer for a while :P

[wascally wabbit]

I've been fighting the Horde for... quite a while.

I defeated the Khan in battle, but he just spawns in another ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fleet so you obviously have to defeat him twice to kill him in battle. Usually, I get the assassinated Khan message pretty much as soon as they get momentum.

However, I've been holding out against these guys for about 2 decades now. What is weird is they seem to have a literal infinite amount of fleets worth 23K each.

To put in perspective, I have two fleets worth just over 12K. I can defeat one 23K fleet with ease, it's just the amount of them and the Khan's fleet power that is ridiculous.

I know it's supposed to be a survival thing, but having to defeat the Khan twice and giving the horde unlimited fleets is just retarded.

Also their fleets are moving around like wolf-packs now due to the fact that they've reached a choke-point in my empire..... I'm so screwed ;-;


UPDATE: He died of natural causes after a reign of thirty years. Is that normal?

[Yatagan]

Originally posted by UnacceptableBabbit:

UPDATE: He died of natural causes after a reign of thirty years. Is that normal?

Yes. After X years (I think it's somewhere around 30-40) the Khan will die and the "event" will sort of end, or at least alter and become significantly easier to deal with. This is by design.

[Chastity the Celibate]

Originally posted by Yatagan:

Originally posted by UnacceptableBabbit:

UPDATE: He died of natural causes after a reign of thirty years. Is that normal?

Yes. After X years (I think it's somewhere around 30-40) the Khan will die and the "event" will sort of end, or at least alter and become significantly easier to deal with. This is by design.

Thirty years is a while, normally it’s 15-20 years