For my fun, I just massed petards and built castles outside the enemy's defense and boomed the enemy castles to death-I also built two in my northern ally's base, because once three castles are down, you've won-oh, no, wait, Tokhtamysh wants to start something. I basically never got attacked at my base and got tons of reinforcements. The rest of this mission is simple siege. If you want, convert some enemy elephants. Next, turn to the southeast, where there are a few buildings near Zarang you can destroy to cripple the enemy then, you can focus on the castle just north. You'll find a monastery guarded by a single tower knock them down and you'll find a relic, which you can ferry to Isfahan (teal) to the southwest, gaining their allyship. Garrison your ram and take your main force south. But before you get to that, set your available villagers to stone, lumber, and food, and build a few trade carts to start generating more gold. While most field cavalry, there's a variety of unit types you'll have to counter.

The question becomes which enemies you want to deal with. Good news is very few serious attacks will come at you, which makes this mission pretty easy on Standard. If you support your allies, they will send you supplies-this is critical as you can't build town centers or create villagers on your own. Your goal this mission is to destroy the castle in any three of five enemy cities. I ended up building castles and monasteries near each so I could quickly ferry the priest's cargo back (and because you will not be short on funds, especially if you use the unique unit keshiks-they sap gold from their attacks. The Chagatai Khanate (green) to the east has a lot of towers and castles guarding their relic, while the Blue Horder to the west has much less of a hardened defense. With the perimeter towers demolished, I recommend just trying to bait the enemies by the castle out to where you can kill them without destroying the entire base (given that it becomes an ally later on, so stuff like the market will be useful.) You'll also get access to the docks afterwards as well.ДЄfter that, you have two more relics to grab.

There is a Mongol stronghold, where you need to kill Urus Khan to gain the loyalty of Tokhtamysh Khan at the map's center. Set up your economy, build a few siege weapons, and then hoof it to the NW. Welcome to Central Asia, where your goal is to start carving up your enemies and capture relics. There is one mission-specific achievement. In this campaign, you play as the 14th-century Tatars in Eurasia.

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