Quote Originally Posted by [b
Quote[/b] ]Georgia and Armenia are hilly country and the mongols suffer there. They are made for steppe warfare.
thanks for the advise lancer63.

under normal circumstances i would agree with you. but, the problem i'm having now isn't only with the terrain.

i'm playing the high period as byz. the horde showed up a couple turns after i beat the backstabbing turks. my resources are depleted. i lost many horse units against the turks and couldn't replace them fast enough. so i had to fight the horde with mostly byz infantrys and bow units.

the two battles i won in georgia, i won with quite some loses. i killed about 2000+, lost about 700+.

my tactic is pretty simple. beat the first wave of the horde using standard method, bows first, melee, then flank, since the mongol first wave always consists of heavys and warriors. that done, i withdraw depleted bows, add reinforcement. mongols then return with horse archers. so i march to forest. and because i have s### for luck the forests are always near the front. this is where it gets painful, my foot soldiers are showered with arrows and there is nothing i can do about it. once i get to the forest though, it's easy. i just wait until time runs out, and kill any bastards who dare to come near.

you can see why i don't like the hills and forests of georgia.