[Help] Khwarezmian Campaign

[Wrain]

So i'm starting a Khwarezmian with this setting:
Late Campaign
VH/VH
Savage AI
No BGR

and i need some tips for dealing with the Mongols at the start.

Anyone of you have tried and succeded ? Did u make with them an alliance giving away some settlements?

I was planning to conquer some southern settlement such Baghdad to get more income for the expensive war.

Any advice?

[Silver Legionary]

I've taken on that campaign recently, and been relatively successful in slowing
the Golden Horde to a halt.

They'll quickly break any alliance; they're the MONGOLS.

What I did was:
-Change capital to either Damghan or Ray.
-Destroy all buildings in Konjikala and your former capital(forgot the name).
-Build up quickly, and attack rebels wherever possible, especially in the west.
-Build a Drill square in Damghan, that building gives you Persian Spearmen, which
will most probably be your best available infantry for some time, and they're actually
pretty good... until you get ARMORED Spearmen, who are epic.
-Hunker down and weather the storm, as the Horde starts out with a lot of siege
weapons, like trebuchets. Best advice there is to force them to attack your settlements,
preferably your castles; boiling oil works wonders there, guard the inevitable breaches in your
walls!

[Wrain]

Thx for the tips, so the early alliance is the only way.

I just noticed that forts have boiling oil + an addictional inner wall surrounding the center. I'll try to build a fort or two near Konjikala and then give away the settlements then defend the fort.

This campaign is gonna be interesting

[Silver Legionary]

Early alliance with who?
Them? No way. They'll betray you in 3 turns or less.
I guarantee it.

Also, the forts in this are STONE?
As in, boiling oil too?
Oh man, didn't know that...

[Wrain]

Well i don't care if the will betray me. I obtained the ceasefire +25k for the 2 settlements

The 25k are strange tho. Bug maybe ?

Edit: yes it's a reloading bug. And maybe another one... the game is crashing because mongols are besiging own cities. Solutions?

[bɑne]

Well i don't care if the will betray me. I obtained the ceasefire +25k for the 2 settlements

The 25k are strange tho. Bug maybe ?

Edit: yes it's a reloading bug. And maybe another one... the game is crashing because mongols are besiging own cities. Solutions?

Siege problems generally can be solved by surrender regions or taking the cities yourself before the attack.
Btw surrender regions doesn't kill the mongols - it hordes them so be patient as the turn is reported to take as much as 5minutes ( or more).

[Wrain]

I resolved the CTD here by adding some conditions to the respective variable monitor.

Should work fine now.