all this fuss about the mongols

[s_tabikha]

not true
i got all worked up
gave half my lands to eygpt so they could ast as a buffer zone
they cut all the way threw to me
i get in one battle and i win againts 4 stacks thanks to a river

disapointment

[Philbert]

You don't see much poetry in this forum. Your style is refreshing, it has that haiku rythm going on.

[tarbanrael]

it is indeed direct but very refreshing!!! This said, it does not matter who you fight, a river crossing or a bridge is by far one of the best places to defend. Better would be some mountain fight, perched on top of a cliff with longbowmen raining arrows on the approaching enemy...~:thumb:

[ixidor]

The best way to beat them? Fabian strategy. I just love use it against everybody. Reminds the first crusade i got to jerusalem (i was egipt). I put several small armies in a row from mamluk archers in the way of a full stack. I lost 3 battles, and from the 3 battles i had minimal losses and destroyed several units from the crusaders. After they got to Jerusalem i reunited the small armies in a biger army and kicked their asses. Then retrained and waited fro the next stack. I beat 3 full stackes with less then 1 with this startegy, with lots of "close defeats" :laugh4:

[s_tabikha]

the fabian strategy
witherd and old
roots of with power

glorious

[s_tabikha]

Whaomg Nobody Told Me They Come Back With 4543545 Stacks Once You Kill Them All!!!!!!!

[gardibolt]

Yes, they do. And then their big brothers come. With cannons riding on elephants.

[Benandorf]

Whaomg Nobody Told Me They Come Back With 4543545 Stacks Once You Kill Them All!!!!!!!

That's the entire problem. One stack is fairly easy if you play it right, two is doable, and more are doable with the right terrain. The problem is that they get about 10 stacks full of high experience units and full/close to full commander/dread generals.

And, as the others pointed out, then come the elephants with cannons on their backs...

[s_tabikha]

Oh god!
fleeinterror!
run for the hills!!

[Guru]

Genghis Khan came across the plains
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our lands for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for azab
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the Ottomans back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives

Masked man on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their kings
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good saracens are tame
Selling them silk and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills run for your lives
I can't really write poems or anything in English so I'll just have to imitate someone else's text. :jester:

[DVX BELLORVM]

Genghis Khan came across the plains
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our lands for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for azab
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the Ottomans back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives

Masked man on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their kings
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good saracens are tame
Selling them silk and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills run for your lives
I can't really write poems or anything in English so I'll just have to imitate someone else's text. :jester:
Maybe we should ask the Iron Maiden to alter their original text ~D