Greetings Sir!

You are fortunate to be playing as a faction that does not call the Middle East or the Eastern Steppes home!

Basically, your major industrial centers, population, and trade are safely out of Mongol or Timurid hands. What is there to worry about? Unless you are an Orthodox faction, you are safe due to a strategy I like to call Medieval 2, Holy War.

Let the Mongols come. Let the Timurids come. Let them advance like the fools they are. Let them sack the middle east, let them take the steppes. Let them move West, leaving garrisons in their wake and slowly losing troops to conquest and dispersion. Let their stacks move further apart... let them revel in their cheap, easy victories. Let their confidence get the best of them. Let their strength be their greatest weakness...

Then, when they are most vulnerable, sitting on a bloated empire, their invasion armies far from one another, depleted somewhat by their attacks... as they are just beginning to feel the effects of their victory ales and drop into a drunken stupor...

CRUSH THEM!!!

Call a crusade on their easternmost province, sign up all your generals with massive stacks to a crusade of epic proportions.

Swiftly sail across the map until you land in the heart of Mongol or Timurid territory with your wave after wave of generals and endless troops, all carrying the banner of Christ.

Surround every single Mongol/Timurid stack with 2, 3, or 4 full stacks, preferably with night fighter ability. If you can isolate each stack one at a time, the easier they will fall.

Their elephants are weak against artillery fire and flaming arrows help spook them. surround their grand armies with the greatest armies the world has ever seen, send wave after wave of zealots and crusaders into the fray, and simply crush their pitiful armies under the sheer weight of numbers.

smash every city you come across until you reach your destination at the heart of Mongol/Timurid territory. Then, fully surround the city with all of your best stacks, and lay siege.

When the city falls, you now have many, many stacks of troops begging for a fight in the heart of enemy territory. Show them what a horde of conquerors is REALLY all about.

Out-Mongol the Mongols with endless stacks of cavalry... make the Timurids timid and stomp all over their elephants with endless waves of spearmen, artillery, and archers...

then, when you are all done, laugh like a maniacal genius and wipe what’s left of them from the bottom of your boot.

Golden horde? Meet Christian horde!