Oh dear. I've discovered a huge downside to being on the east end of the map. Even if you happen to beat the Mongols in their initial invasion.. it seems the Khans of the east are quite vengeful.
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It looks like I can expect a new batch of doomstacks every ten years or every time a new khan comes to power, at least until 1300. This invasion was much smaller than the last with only 40,000 men. I easily destroyed their push at the battles of Sherkala and Iber-Bolgar.. but that doesn't mean the next will be as easy.This effectively grinds my dynasty power plays and foreign war fighting to a hault. There's no way I can wrestle with the HRE/ERE while dealing with a resurgent mongol threat every 10 years.
For those wondering the Khan character is essentially off the map. You can see him in a certain province but he has no court, and assassinating your way through the line is typically a very bad idea thanks to how the spawning events work. Maybe I can convert him with my court chaplain, i wonder if that still works if the targeted character has no court, we'll have to see. If i can I've heard that stops the free reinforcement events from firing.
Until then it appears that I've had the quite unofficial title of "Guardian of Europe" thrust upon me. So be it. I'll stop each and every invasion dead in it's tracks. Not one step backward!
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