Which factions is best against Mongols and Timurids?

[IPoseTheQuestionYouReturnTheAnswer]

As someone said before, the factions with strong infantry and mounted skirmishers and lancers are the best for the Mongols. That would mean the Turks, Egyptians, Byzantines, and maybe the Russians in that order. Oddly enough, those are also the 4 factions on the front lines of the Mongol invasion. It's just a matter of how many forces you have to spare to fight them with without your front lines collapsing elsewhere.

The Turks and Egyptians also have a very unique advantage against the Mongols and Timurids that nobody else gets. When it almost comes time for the Mongols to arrive, Elephants and Elephant Artillery will be avaliable as mercenaries in the Baghdad/Yerevan region. So you can have some of their secret weapons to use against them when they arrive.

Any faction can recruit them as they are mercs, but the Turks and Egyptians start closest to that region.

[Alexander: The hellenic empire]

I Byzantine and Turk infantry good enough? Are there archers who cannot make the wall of you know trunks.. (i dont remeber the name)

[IPoseTheQuestionYouReturnTheAnswer]

The Turks get Janissary Heavy Infantry, the best melee infantry in the game. The Byzantines get decent enough infantry...Varangians should make their infantry very good, but in their current condition, they're pretyt useless.

[Varyar]

As said, archers with stakes are a huge asset. However, there is one faction that not only manages to match the mongols, but to beat them at their own game. Namely... the Moors. Their Camel Gunner is one of the best units in the game and with just a little backup from Granadine Jinetes and/or Christian Guardsmen they can take on any mongol army in a field battle. Gotta love that "camel scare horse" feature.

[zulukiller]

TBH I've never had a problem with the mongols there pretty bog standard in all my campaigns (I've had 3 full campaigns now as England only) and good tactics normally kicks there arses. As for the Timurid's though they've been sent straight from hell just to torment me (the dam elephants are evil and i get the crash bug with the Timurid's :-( ).

From what I've read though mounted javelin men are supposed to be the best counter to elephants or mounted archers or some kind of mounted projectile unit. This actually makes alot of sense to me you can hit and run from them constantly gradually wearing them down or sending them berserk. Now according to the actual game (help advisor) fast lightly armoured units in loose formation are supposed to be the best anti elephant unit. I find that to be false myself as elephants scare the crap out of infantry and cavalry . So in my current campaign I'm going to go for normal billmen (the lightly armoured ones) as many generals as i can get for cavalry and a crap load of arbaquests plus a couple of couldrens set to explosive rounds (i don't want to relay on mercs). I'm really hoping that will take the elephants out as the Timurid infantry is just really poor and easily dealt with.