Help!

[Saladin45]

Alright. I got's me a problem.

I've got five Mongol armies outside of my cities of Mosul and Baghdad... They don't want to make friends. And they are all fully stacked armies. I'm done, aren't I?

So far I've got a large amount of defenses closer to the shore. But... What should I do? Should I send my armies out to engage them to save Baghdad and Mosul? Or just wait until they come closer so that I can defeat them on my own terms? I need some help.

[Mythos]

Run!

On the field they will own you. And they have alot of siege engines so you are not that safe in walls. Build cheap and highly defensive armies and try to move your armies in easily defensible areas like steep sloped mountains. By the time they arrive your melee units they would be very tired and have taken some casualties. Try to focus on killing their generals too.

[ghyslyn]

sounds like me in barbarian invasion for RTW, i was playing franks and i had conquered about half of northern middle europe(pretty much modern belgium and holand, denmark, northern germany and most of poland), the huns had their damn horde armies all over one of my major cities(which was only defended by half a dozen cheap spear infantry troops, that i was training each turn i could but losing them just as often), ever battle i lost maybe a quarter of each of my units, but i still won, everytime my 100-200 troops would win against armies of over 1000, the reason being? i stacked em all right in from of the gate and set them for shieldwall, completely undestructable plan, the enemies would always come, and be attacked by 3 times as many troops as they are, i would fit about 7 units in the space that one and a half units would usually take, overall with half a full stack of army i took out about 10 full hun stacks, mainly due to the hun's low moral, and since it was a horde army they weren't the best quality.

remember too that i didnt take out 10 armies in 10 battles, rather more like 40 battles, each time the same thing, because they would retreat due to low morale, and come back, and leave and come and leave and come, finally they were so weakened(i was also constantly assasinating their 15 family members) that i was able to sally forth and confront them in open field battle(i feel so embarassed, i lost...)

[Roman-Warrior]

I want to play as the turks but am afraid of the mongols ruining my game, so I continue to be cathlic!

-Wes

[pero]

thats why im playing venice. Ill make sure turks and mongols lose a lot of their armies, before i will intervene.

[bggeneral2]

The tips are not usefull. The best way is to stay in your towns/castels and to have A LOT of archers inside. Once they besige you, strt attack from inside and rain with arrows will decrease there number. You will not win, will be Draw. But you dont try to fight in melee. Next turn, if they dont attack you, repeate the same. If they attack the walls 0- defent your self. You can loose some city, but if you are good - castles will win. Mongols are good in taking first and second wall. But with lots of archers they will never take third one ;-) This will continue 10-15 turns. After this they will be weak faction. Because they will loos there best fighters and will start producing of new, but not experianced troops. Then you can kill them.
And concentrate in killing there generals and chiefs - this realy help.

[Saladin45]

Thanks a ton guys! Surprisingly, after like 4-5 battles, I managed to have them sign a ceasefire. Then they moved their way into Turkish lands.

It was funny, because the first battle I cornered their armies and lost quite a few men. But I managed to drive them away. Amazing stuff. Killed their faction heir with arrows while they were in the middle of the battle and he was waiting behind his men on a hill! You could not believe how happy I was.

Poor Turks though, they've lost quite a few cities...

[Metellus]

Was gonna suggest now's the time to offer the Pope some land in the middle east, but seems you have this one in hand already