Playing Mongols

[Aeroniero]

So I've been playing some turns with the Mongols and am already like minus -20 000 on cash and it will keep sinking.

My questions is this: How do you play the mongols well? Or were they ever meant to be played? How to keep the money flowing?

[Caesar Clivus]

1. Disband armies until you start getting profit

or

2. Attack settlements everywhere, sack them for money and move on. Rinse and repeat.

[gracul]

The problem with Mongols is that if its played by an AI it's ok, it the 'historical way' to conquer all things.
However when played by a human, what fun would it be if you could just ride and conquer everything everywhere? usually when the player achieves that status he starts a new campaign - as it's just not fun to randomly stomp everyone (and thats why i prefer playing on gracul AI, where in late game the AI will have a couple of faction power-houses that can easily be a match even for a well developed 40-70 regions human).
Thats why mongols were left with some economical problems - you actually have to carefully develop your cities after the first few victories or u'll be left with -money.

Unless you actually want a game like this, so you can just open console and add the money or play custom battles.