How best to deal with the Mongol horde?

[Brian_]

They move quickly into shooting range, pepper the hell out of you, and quickly move out of range if your spears (or anything else) get too close. And if you over-extend, they'll turn and charge you

Yes indeed. And I have yet to come up with a really effective counter strategy. I try hiding in the woods but they whittle my numbers down with missle fire. They seem to know better than to enter the forests and engage my troops face to face. And of course, if I attack with spear troops, they simply run out of range (and quickly, too!)

I've had mixed results using Yari cavalry against them. But I think the problem there is that I simply don't have the numbers to try and take on an entire army of Mongol mounted troops. But I can't help but think that the added flexibility of Yari cavalry is the secret to denying the Mongols their unique advantage...

Or perhaps using more missle based troops of my own to counter their own is best. I'm still coming to grips with this foe.