Well I may be boring but I prefer to preserve my Empire (also not as good as some people ). However things got quite interesting only two days ago when I had my first real Horde fight.

As Poland (note my name) on Expert GA, I conquered East until I hit the edge of the map and then West to a Saxony to Venice border (also Denmark and Scandinavia). At this point I was fighting south and had just managed to take Constantinople ten years before the Mongol Invasion.

When the Horde arrived I left two units of Halbrediars in the Fortress of Khazar. The rest of my armies was put in Cheringov and Kiev where they could defend across bridges. I had heard that one should leave an army of only maybe 20 units to lure the Mongols into using a smaller force.

This I did. And with 6 Crossbows, 4 Halbrediars, 2 Steppe Cavalry, 4 CMAA, 1 Slavic Warrior, 2Feudal Seargents, and a Royal Knight General of 6 Command I began the battle. It began with several charges onto the first bridge where my Halbs were worn down. However on the second charge I lept for joy when the foolishly allowed their King and General the Khan to lead a charge and die.

However as the battle wore on I realized that they would eventually overwelm me. Thus I attempted to bring my Steppe Calvalry around to flank them, this ended in the death of them but I did manage to route the artillery (that was to far away to fire on the bridge). This came in handy many charges later on the other bridge where I had only a single unit of Halbs two of CMAA and my Sergeants and Slavs.

Ironically this was when a pop up appeared that caused Total War to minimize. I closed it and popped up Total War only to find that the enemy had routed and I was saved.

On the main screen the British (the only holder of land across Europe other than me and allso the contollers of north Africa) had used my weakness to attack across the Saxony-Friesland border starting a war.

As of today I have reclaimed my land in Europe bought the entire Rebel Horde (for only 80 thousand fl.) and caused many revolts in English Territory. And since this is GA and I am Poland I am guaranteed to win in the end. The only question is wether I shall continue or start another campaign (although one thing to do is -ian to the remanents of the Eggy or Byzantium).