Quote Originally Posted by JeffBag
Unfortunately, Kiev is a Horde target, along with Smolensk, Jerusalem, and Baghdad i think, therefore they will come screaming for those four regions.
Actually from various reports from TWC, the mongols direction is based on where they appear.
I think they got 3 location that they will randomly appear from in each game.
Can't remember which locations this was but if they appear from the nothern location then they will go for the russian provinces and eastern Europe and if they appear in the southern ones then they will go for the middle-east.