The Golden Horde

[Catiline]

'The horde of the Tartars is numberless. When one is killed, another ten spring from the hell whence he came. Each of them has the head of a dog, and carries with him sufficient weapons for three or four warriors.' So wrote Benedict the Pole, and he had every reason to be fearful, even if he had confused Tartars and Mongols. The Golden Horde were more terrible than anything he could have wished to see: cruel, uncompromising and the most efficient military force since the Caesars. They erased cities, slaughtered thousands, and enslaved any survivors. That they turned aside from reaching further into Europe is one of the quirks of history, and due to one death. Their Khan, Ogadai, drank himself to death and a replacement had to be selected from among the Golden Family by the Horde. If Ogadai had not died, who knows where the Horde would have stopped. They could easily have camped in the ruins of Paris, Rome or Cadiz. The battles in this campaign show how efficient their military machine could be with the right leadership."

So htere you go hte horde are playble it seems in their own histoical campaign. HTey aren't a faction though

The campaign factions seem to be

ALMOHAD
Byzantine
Danish
Egyptian
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Turkish

Nonplayable factions are

Aragonese
Burgundian
Golden horde
Hungarian
Novgorod
Papist
Sicilian
Swiss

there are also a whole load of extra slots

Is all htis old news? I don't htink so but i could well be wrong

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Timeo hominem unius libri

[Hirosito]

is this from .com?

[Catiline]

no, it's from the demo

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Timeo hominem unius libri

[MagyarKhans Cham]

http://www.mongols.club.tip.nl for the non-believers on teh subject

[Orda Khan]

Guess Orda will be spending much time on Historical Campaign..........Orda

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" Send us your ambassadors and thus we shall judge whether you wish to be at peace with us or at war..if you make war on us the Everlasting God, who makes easy what was difficult and makes near what was far, knows that we know what our power is."

[Emp. Conralius]

The Tartars were actually the Huns...

[Orda Khan]

Nah m8 the Tatars were a Turko-Mongol tribe form eastern Mongolia that were exterminated by Chingis Khan. The term 'Tartar' was used in Europe and Russia (strangely by the Mongols themselves to describe the peoples who had been Mongolisized) deriving from the Latin word 'Tartari'. In other words 'creatures from Hell'
The Golden Horde was also a western name, the Mongols more often referring to it as the Khanate of Qipchaq
..........Orda

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" Send us your ambassadors and thus we shall judge whether you wish to be at peace with us or at war..if you make war on us the Everlasting God, who makes easy what was difficult and makes near what was far, knows that we know what our power is."

[Emp. Conralius]

Not to mention Tatar (or Tartar) is a name that has been loosely applied to a number of different Turkic-speaking Muslim peoples of Russia and Central Asia. In recent times it has mainly referred to two groups: the Tatars of the middle Volga region (the Kazan Tatars), who today constitute about half the population of Tatarstan (the Tatar Republic) After migrating to the west over the Caspian Sea, these peoples settled in the Balkans and took up the Hun moniker. Yet their brethren to the eats were still the Tartars, so, I guess, we're both right and wrong.

[Vanya]

I always thought it was these nomadic steppe peoples that invented tartar sauce and steak tartar.

I always wondered how they ate enough fish to actually come up with a sauce for it given they lived IN THE STEPPES.

The steak... well that figures. Raw flesh.

GAH!

[Hirosito]

lovely

[1dread1lahll]

Ah well.. No biggie; those dog-headed horse-riders always drink thenselves to death........