Having trouble with #3 in the Last Kahns Campaign

[carleshaffer]

In #3 {Saving the Huts) of the Last Kahns Campaign, I can't seem to get the scenario to end. I have met the other Khan, freed the 5 villages, and gotten Kotyan to the Hungarians. Under the objectives, everything is checked except for Kotyan must survive and protect your village. I have completely eliminated the Tarkans and have Kubotai's soldiers blocked where they enter. My village is safe and Kotyan is still alive, why won't the scenario end?

[hankshandy]

just a suggestion, but did the tartars 're-take' one of the 5 liberated villages? i don't know if there's any such handy trigger to warn you of this, but maybe if they wipe out one of the villages the game won't finish, even if you kill the tartars later. the only clue for this is when you take the first village, the voiceover promts something along the lines of 'we should leave some forces behind to protect them', but it doesn't mention this again.

when i first played this, just as i was about to take the last village, the mongols send a large army with rams to attack the first one (which i'd left empty). the second time, they attacked the third village (this is all on hard difficulty btw).

so in other words, don't just liberate the villages, protect them as well. the way i did it, as you only have a pop cap of 150 and stone is scarce, i sent 10 vills and 20 crossbows with my (mostly kipchak) army. once i liberated a village (that didn't already have a tc), i plopped a tc in the middle and garrisoned 4 crossbows and moved on, and build a couple of vills in that tc for extra garrisoned arrows/repairs, and left 4 knights/lcav for ram attacks.

it did slow me down a bit, but the 40 minute sabutai timer isn't too bad as he appears on the right of the map and attacks your home base first, so you still have a good while to win the level.

hope this helps?