Bah, another game down the drain -

Il-khanate appeared about 1 year after I loaded up my save. Georgia attacked Cumania for Abkhazia, called me in but Cumans called Il-khanate. I quickly mobilized as I've seen their stacks divided hoping to destroy them one by one. I could mobilize 80000-90000 but attrition killed me as most provinces in the east can't support more than 40000. In the end some 60000 remained and I managed to destroy one of their 20000 stack but they quickly combined the rest into a 100000 doomstack and utterly destroyed my army, with less than 1000 losses. Less than two years later Golden Horde appeared and immediately declared war on me. I was still recovering and could only muster about 50000 troops. I severely mauled one of their stacks, only 7 thousands left out of initial 20 but they combined two in one 40 something thousands stack and attacked my 30 thousand strong army while I was moving another 25 thousands to reinforce them. But they got there sooner, killed of my first army with negligeble losses and proceeded to do the same to the reinforcing army.

Again I surrendered hoping to buy some time and save money for mercenaries but raising my retinues all over again a few times drained my treasury. A few years later Il-khanate declared war and while I was trying to hurt them even slightly GH declared war again.

This is the first time I've seen both hordes appear within a two years of each other and somehow, both thought I was a juicy target. I was allied to Denmark, Georgia and HRE, all answered my call to arms but only Georgia sent 10000 troops before the war was over.

Gonna move west for my next game cause I really don't know how can I possibly defeat the hordes unless I'm maybe Byz, but starting as the most powerful nation isn't appealing to me.