Quote Originally Posted by lugh
I don't know why, but I laughed at that.

I love the horde battles! 4 hours minimum is what I seem to get. The AI seems to home in on the player, I've played the Turks and had Georgia buttoned up nicely, citadel, 5000 man teched up army, the plains can be clear or better, occupied by a weakened Byz empire, yet the Mongols will insist upon dashing themselves against my Saracen Spear walls!

Then I just changed the AI descriptor to mongol_expansionist (I think) and they settle down a little, they don't just plug all their men into one province and steamroll across the continent, though they're still hard to winkle out of hte plains.
I love 'em too. My favorite and most spectacular battle was as the Polish when I moved a couple of stacks into Khazar on the turn they invaded...just to cull their numbers. It lasted six hours and I LOST...but it was awesome. The field between these two forests was just white and brown, littered with dead horses. You could've walked all the way across and never had to step on the ground!