How to defeat mongols?

[gold2123]

Guys give me tactics please

[oOIYvYIOo]

researchs cannons towers,stay inside the castles and when they launch the siege on your settlements , try to attack them just by using hte cannons of the towers and wait till the end of the battle to end.and also subscribe on my channel.

[High Ham of The Black Forest]

Ah a good question, ive spent many nights playing this game over and over again losing to the mongol horde, the mongols truely live up to their legacy in this game. First things first, yoour faction your playing as means alot, as most western factions wont deal with them its always safe and easy to play one. But if your brave enough to pick a faction like egypt, or isane enough to be byzantium(one of the worst start offs and falls off completely end game) then you need to do alot in a short amount of time. Factions that generally worry about the mongols include Byzantium, Egypt, Turks, Russia, Poland, Hungary and in some cases the H.R.E and venice(only if you manage to be a monster with these factions and spread very rapidly from there very strong early game military possibilities). Now that factions are known lets take a look at the mongols, they spawn roughly at turn 100-150 in some cases it can happen at extremes. Not only do they spawn pretty early in the game they also spawn highly trained, like to the point you would never see a unit achieve in your own army(expect calvary, but ill touch up on that later) and to make it all the worse thay spawn with an army fit for an empire of roughly 30 high pop cities, w/o having to defend the cities, greeeeat. I'm going to assume you're playing as a middle east located faction, your goals should be to take over all of the middle east by 50-75 turns in. From there you need to attempt, and i mean attempt for it probably wont work, to establish good relations with western factions that border you, and have as much trade with the west and north as you possibly can, you woill need th money to grow you collection of cities into a true empire. If you cant get good relations then buckle up and set defensive lines and hold...

[5n4k3d0cToR]

Basically mate, hit em' early & hit em' hard if you have a good tech/research standing. Many times you will be besieged, but thats where defenses/cannon towers come in, as well as many missile troops to pepper them as they try to get through. Strategy/tactics are key. Strong economy is also vital, for army upkeep. There will be defeats, but persevere and you will reap the rewards. Good luck.

[Stubbs]

If you know where they are going to spawn, have 3 full armies waiting on them.. if you kill the first 3 armies before the others arrive they are defated.

[Chaoslink]

I've used two methods in the past that generally worked better than the above.

First, why deal with them if you can make friends. A high level diplomat and maybe even a gift of something could sweeten the deal with them and no longer will you have to worry about them destroying you. They just destroy everyone else. Even if you do have to wage war on them later on, you will have much more time to build a sufficient army. (also when you /do/ attack them, do your best to separate their mobs and avoid being outnumbered in one battle. You might have to fight a few offbalanced armies, but if you can win a few slightly outnumbered battles in a row you're golden.

The other method is a bit harder but is much more hilarious.

How do you kill a faction. You kill the family. So train a few assassins early on and farm exp for them off rebel captains and other faction's units. If you can get three to five up to level 7 or higher you might just be able to assassinate all the mongol leaders when they invade and turn them all into rebels. If you have a massive amount of gold you may even be able to use a diplomat to bribe one of them to join you. (keep in mind that if you do battle them, your primary target is the general. Even if you have to lose the battle, killing a leader might prove more valuable a reward then letting him get away if you are trying this method anyways). Once you eliminate them all they become rebels and generally move about less coordinated and can be dealt with individually.

Generally speaking the most difficult method of beating them is attacking them head on with defending against them being the next most difficult.

[Cat Girl Enthusiast]

Generally keep away from using infantry as thats what the mongols like to pick on. Foot archers are okay as long as they aren't peasent archers which are insanely weak. On of my experiences as Denmark my infantry got massacred but my heavey cav smashed most of there force. Don't use cannons and artillery as they are to inaccurate to hit mongol units. Stick to fighting to siege battles since those limit the effectiveness of the mongols.
Good luck

[BRox]

Are they still attacking your town only with the main army while 3 more are sitting back and enjoying the view? Every battle with them was heroic

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

lots of tactics here(and one good exploit) so ill give you a strategy
what you can do is let them run rampart around the middle east,then once they have founded thier own kingdom,wiping out the turks,byz and egyptians and after thier first generation of generals have died you are left with a faction that is not much harder to beat than anybody else

[easytarget]

wait for the timurids to show up and wreck'em?

[x260bm]

Originally posted by Stubbs:

If you know where they are going to spawn, have 3 full armies waiting on them.. if you kill the first 3 armies before the others arrive they are defated.

For a few turns anyway.

[Captain Kitten]

Simple as any nation with interest in the middle east be sure to have as many assassins, highly skilled the better. Then when they invade as they tear through most of eastern settlements and huge expanses to your cities have your agents murder the entire factions generals. Not many; as most armies are led by captains or some will die in battle. Once the entire family tree is dead, the game will mention that the mongols have been defeated. Replaced by rebel/mongol horde armies. Lol I kid you not I had entire full stack roving grey mongol armies doing nothing as my assassins had decimated the entire family.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

yep,thats what i mean,first new khan and its all over for them really,assasins make it glaringly obvious