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Quote[/b] (bhutavarna @ Sep. 16 2003,19:57)]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.
One lesson I learned the hard way is to always keep at least a fresh ranged unit in reserve, and I mean on the field, not as reinforcement. I keep it with 'hold fire' on to keep it from depleting its precious ammo. The AI tends to place most your ranged units in your starting army and generally all your bolts and arrows are spent by the second/third mongol wave.
By using less ranged units at one time I manage to always have something to counter those annoying horse archers, and by being on the highest possible part of a mountain I had the range advantage over them, almost thrice their range. Many mongol archers fled the field before even firing a shot.
If you're playing the biz, try and have at least 2 VGs and 3BI units, + as many treb archers, x bows, arbs and pavise arbs as you can.
The biz have the Biz cav and Biz lancers of which you should have a fair amount by 1230. They can mor than make up for the Kats and Prons is case they're not available yet.

And remember. The GH is counting on you making something stupid. So try not ot engage more than one third of your forces on the field at one time, fight the urge to pursue too far and try not to run out of ammo.
In Armenia I couldn't get to a decent forrest but 10 mongols died for each one of my casualties. That's a fair kill ratio imho.