The Khan regularly rolls into town with a super army of 30-50 thousand troops. He usually slices through a few dozen provinces, then settles down to consolidate his little kingdom. It's annoying and horrific if you're on the east side of the map.
Now, I thought something is a little fishy. Say the Khan shows up with 50,000 troops. That's a lot of mouths to feed. Assuming, arguendo, that those troops are purely peasants (and we know they're not), that's 250 units worth of peasanty happiness. At 75 florins a turn, those peasants eat up 18,750 florins worth of whale fat each year. Now, if we make an assumption that those are hayburners and their maintenance is more about 150 florins per troop (on the low side, really), that's 625 troops of 80 horsemen, for a yearly cost of 93,750 florins.
In most of my games, I could sustain that rate for MAYBE 6 turns, at the most, before I'm out of money and options.
So, how the hell does he do it? Or is he just broke from the first turn, and not creating new units? Does the Khan have a huge war chest in the beginning? If the poor bastard in landlocked economically-challenged Poland has to live on 12 kopecs a day, then the bastard Khan ought to also.
Maybe this is all clarified in one of the mods that lets you play the Horde. Are these numbers close, or am I mistaking things?
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