Stainless Steel 6.4 Playing as the Golden Horde - army upkeep

[Good Boy]

How do i not go in half a million debt as my armies start to reduce, I cant make enough money from settlements am i missing something obvious that was mentioned on mod forums? Only way i see it is i have to disband my armies at the start. If so whats the point of them in the first place if you can never afford them, You only get about 10 stacks and they dont last forever, I cant be stuffed going turtle mode for 50 turns with what little money i make taking the debt back after my armies are all dead or disbanded

[SNIper of DARKness]

You're not supposed to play the Mongols as a normal faction (Expanding, building up 5 turns then expanding again), as mongols you're only really supposed to expand.
They are more of a challenge faction, "how many settlements can you take before you go bankrupt and run out of money".

You can play the Mongols as a normal faction if you want by just taking a lot of cities during the first turns then disbanding most of your army, you will still have some very strong stacks.

[Good Boy]

Ok cool thanks, That helped.

[Gigantus]

LOL - which faction can support 10 full stacks of mostly elite troops without owning half the map?

Carve yourself a nice slice of the map as quickly as possible and then disband stacks, consolidating them to one or two, depending on your income. Which means don't bother with little villages.

[SNIper of DARKness]

Anyone here plays SS6.4 Multiplayer?

[Heresy]

Is stainless steel supposed to spawn enemy armies out of thin air on very hard? I swear that I started attacking Scottland and William Wallace came out of the sky like a lightning bolt with a full stack 1500 army to siege one of my settlements. Hes dead now as i had to see if gods could be killed.

[Gigantus]

Scripted spawn, the army size might be linked to difficulty

[Ryan Gosling (literally me)]

Originally posted by Heresy:

Is stainless steel supposed to spawn enemy armies out of thin air on very hard? I swear that I started attacking Scottland and William Wallace came out of the sky like a lightning bolt with a full stack 1500 army to siege one of my settlements. Hes dead now as i had to see if gods could be killed.

that's a scripted event. i invaded england as france and when the scotts had one or two settlements left SIR WILLIAM WALLACE spawned his l33t army. then i wiped out their last settlements and william died but his army became a rebel army with some l33t units left.

[Heresy]

Lol i find that whoever i attack, they magically spawn a none general captains army to siege one of my settlements. Maybe the AI is just way more aggressive. I have them set to Gracul or whatever the very first option in the settings. Looked like that was the most challenging setting. But its sort of cheese at times.

[Ryan Gosling (literally me)]

Originally posted by Heresy:

Lol i find that whoever i attack, they magically spawn a none general captains army to siege one of my settlements. Maybe the AI is just way more aggressive. I have them set to Gracul or whatever the very first option in the settings. Looked like that was the most challenging setting. But its sort of cheese at times.

wtf is gracul?

[Heresy]

In the description when i installed 6.4 and configured it. There was about 10 options for the AI depending on how you wanted them to act.

Gracul was the very first option and mentioned something like this by the creator of the mod:

"This makes the AI play with a style similar to my own. You will be backstabbed and other factions will prey on you if you are weak. Also makes AI more aggressive"

Something along those lines it was basically the settings that looked the most challenging.

[Gigantus]

Gracul was a very active modder on TWC

[Shadow of the SPQR]

Originally posted by Heresy:

In the description when i installed 6.4 and configured it. There was about 10 options for the AI depending on how you wanted them to act.

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[LuL]

how do i play as golden horde ? do i have to kill em first ? or edit the cfg ?

[Gigantus]

It requires some modding in the descr_strat file to play as a horde: https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?465246&p=14500741&viewfull=1#post14500741

[SNIper of DARKness]

Originally posted by █▄ █▄█ █▄:

how do i play as golden horde ? do i have to kill em first ? or edit the cfg ?

If you have Stainless Steel 6.4 they are available from installation. I think you confused the mod with the vanilla game.