ALthough I have never seen a Timurid in the campaign mode yet. I can say I did play against a lot of them on Multiplayer against my stepson and what I came up with is using a lot of fire against them. IF you have archers, turn flame on, Artillery, SAME. Flame makes Elephants go crazy. I once gave the cpu enough money to buy nothing but artillery elephants and I routed that army with nothing but flame archers and artillery in a castle. It was a pretty easy battle too. I would just keep horse away from them. OH, I had something inside, OH PIKEMEN, They can't handle well against pikemen either.