3D campaign map: Your ideas on how to make more challenging battles.

[hellenes]

I met the Golden Horde with Boyars, HA and Steppe cav. The Horde were destroyed in one battle that took less than an hour. Mongol heavy cav just walked around the map as they fell to Russian arrows. As for Mongol HA, unfortunately the AI was controlling them so they died almost as fast as they appeared. I only hope that MTW II Mongols pose more of a threat

........Orda

On what unit sizes you were playing?
Difficulty?
What was the size of the horde?
In my typical VI games the Horde was betweein 11-15000 on normal size, and it took me 2000 arbalesters with 1k Byzantine melee troops (katas/Varangs/infantry) to stop them in Georgia in a edge map camping defence. For 2,5 fours

Hellenes

[Orda Khan]

Normal unit size, hard/medium setting and the Horde was massive but since it was so long ago I can not remember the exact size

.....Orda