mongol help, good sirs

[buddha95]

Im a disabled vet and play vanilla AND play auto-resolve combat. Im egypt. what can I do about the mongols ? I gave till I was outstanding but got no alliance and was attacked next turn. ty for your help.
Jim

[FountainGuard]

First of all, thanks a lot. And your question, I would just take advantage of the game, and go to the last save-point. Or you could just look up how to fight the Mongols, which there TONS of threads about. Hope this helps .

[buddha95]

I need the answer to be relitive to me auto-resolving. What ive seen is for expanded battles . also, I dont want to cheat with save/load till win
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[Maklodes]

Hmm... auto-resolve vs Mongols? You might try a full stack of tabardariyya and saracen militia (plus maybe a high-command general, and dismounted Arab cavalry in a pinch?). Such an army would surely lose without a fight against Mongols in tactical battle (no range + infantry mobility -- they couldn't even catch the horse archers), but I think that in auto-resolve it's all treated as melee even if it's spearmen vs. horse archers. Save before you try it, though -- this is just speculation, not from real experience.

If your disability prevents you from playing tactical battles and you have to auto-resolve (I'm not sure if that's the case -- sorry if I'm making unwarranted assumptions), though, I'm not sure Total War games are the best ones for you. They have a strategic and tactical level of play, and if you're only going to play at the strategic level (using auto-resolve to skip the tactical level), a dedicated strategic game might be better for you.

[empr guy]

The only thing I can think of for auto resolve is get stacks and stacks of spear militia units and try to put them in places like bridges where only one mongol army can attack you at a time. Their troops and generals are excellent though, you will loose lots of battles and thousands of troops, but it is possible to save yourself if you have a good enough economy and enough settlements to train the troops quick enough.

This actually reminds me of an exploit in the first medieval, The mongols would appear on the map with their doom horde, but actually take a province and hold it, if you sent a unit into the mongol province to attack, they would stay there for that turn. I forget the name of where they came in, but there were like 6 provinces around it, so I sent in 6 units of peasants until real armies got there lol. Those were the days...

[buddha95]

is there a way, a mod or something, thats keeps the 2 nomad attackers offboard ??

[totalwar_legend]

If you can only auto resolve, I recommend being more aggressive at the beginning of the game. If you've got upwards of 15 areas by the time the mongols arrive, you should be fine. They aren't good at managing economy. You just keep hitting them until they're worn out. Blockade their ports, sabotage their cities. Anything to stop them getting money.

[Lord Jake]

Some basic thoughts:

It is also a good idea to hit a single stack with multiple stacks of your own, in the field. Auto resolve is much more costly, but killing off stacks individually, before they get to your cities is better than auto resolving at cities where they can just keep piling on without a break in the action.

Before your engage, try to kill off their Generals/Family members with your assassins. Make sure you have some very experienced assassins before they arrive so that you can deal with them right away.

Also: Don't let them take ANY city or castle. If they do, they will just spawn new troops. If you see that there is no hope of holding a province, destroy everything you can so they don't benefit from high level buildings, and turn a castle into a city if you expect to lose it. It will keep them from getting some of the high end units. As far as I know, the AI won't turn a city into a castle, so if you hand over a city, it stays a city...