Mongol Hunters Unite!!

**phonicsmonkey** · 07-31-2007, 11:56

ok, we all hate the Mongols right?

they sneak up on you out of the east, always arriving at the worst time just when you're trying to finish off the Turks, they take your hard-won cities, beat up on your favourite generals and execute all your best troops....and then they have the temerity, just when you think you've gotten rid of them, to turn up again....WITH ELEPHANTS!

also I have a sneaking suspicion they brought the black death with them..too much of a co-incidence

we've had a spate of threads recently talking about how to fight them, so we don't need another....what I want is to GLORY together in their unseemly demise

post your pics of Mongol-humiliation. I want to see them getting shot up, impaled on lances, set on fire and chopped in half. I want to see Mongol blood all over this screen. Give me their pain!

Show me how you opened up a fresh can of whoopass on them and sent them crawling back to the shabby hole they first skulked out of.

To get things rolling, here's a pic of a bunch of timurids getting mashed up by their own elephants as they try to escape a fort I trapped them in:

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happy hunting brothers

**Philbert** · 07-31-2007, 13:03

Phonics, why do you use both catapults and trebuchets? What doe catapults offer that trebuchets do not?

**phonicsmonkey** · 07-31-2007, 13:18

no reason, I just couldn't train enough trebuchets nearby, so I had to fill in the gaps with catapults

**Grog** · 07-31-2007, 19:26

Ha! Death to the Mongol Horde!

Here is a few bashings I gave the mongols. Byzantine 1.2 vanilla Vh/Vh. Mongols have been monitored by my spy network from Sarkel, took Kiev from Hungary and settled. So I sent a diplomat over to demand florins, and they came right at me! All these battles were open-field NE of Bran/Bucharest.

Hell freezes over for Subutai the Wrathful:

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Khanzada Orda is engulfed by the Byzantine storm:

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Run, Ogadai,run!

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On a related note to your fort bombing phonicsmonkey, how do you stop the horde spilling from the fort halfway through an elephant roast? I have taken to using 8 treb/cat mix then a 4/4/3 balance of byz guard archer/varangs/vards+ general to deal with any breakers. I'm going to post a big timurid meltdown at some point, but here is a taster:

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**phonicsmonkey** · 07-31-2007, 23:42

nice work grog

well, in 1.1 it was much easier as they tended to sit in the fort waiting for the fiery death

in 1.2 as you correctly note they attempt a breakout more often than not, which is more testing

I have a pocket of pavise xbows waiting for them to mince them up as they leave, and some hospitallers to charge in and keep them boxed up

then it all hinges on dropping a few flaming rocks on their heads and getting the elephants to run amok while they're all bunched up....