taking the AI's money and then declaring war was golden

Hahahaha you made him buy your luxury trade route, then you declared war. Why have i never thought of this. So deviously simple.

Ah, yes, a ranged unit that can move after attacking. The ultimate cheese. "So these guys on horseback ran up to our city, shot some arrows at our walls, and then ran away. Somehow, our walls aren't holding."

Keshiks are the nastiest weapon in the game if you are using them carefully and level them up.

On my first two tries, I got close, but was maybe 10 turns short of victory. Realizing that I need to prioritize logistics (and ignore for example the city attack promotion until I have logistics) was the missing piece that allowed me to win on the third try. Instead of conquering Korea, I allied them, but this can take some RNG to be able to do, it seems the cities will often stay allied to civs even when those civs are destroyed. In my second try I was first hostile to Korea and let them take Liaoyang and Beijing, before allying them. This way I still got the horses and had less unhappiness. This isn't necessary, just a nice bonus, as on the third try I managed to win despite not feeding Korea any cities. One problem with allying Korea is that they will have their units around, which on some turns block access to attacking Japan. The way I finally got Japan is that I declared war as early as possible, used two keshiks to bombard the one city you can reach from the tip of Korea, leveling up the keshiks, and when I had conquered that city and killed enough Japanese units, they agreed to a peace deal where they gave me the city they have in the east. If you can do this early enough, the 10 turns of peace won't be a problem, and attacking from land is far, far easier with the keshiks. Before that I had been trying to infiltrate with keshiks from the north and try to grind enough experience for my naval ships to get +1 range and bombard Kyoto enough to take it by attacking from the sea with a land unit. That would probably have worked too, but the peace plan was probably faster. I attacked India before Persia by going through the southern jungles, but attacking Persia through the mountains might be a better idea. Remember that you can get +1 happiness from garrisoning cities. An archer costs 200 gold and gives you +1 happiness if you can get it to a city without garrisson, and they helped a lot with dealing with barbarians. I never got below -20 happiness, I think, except maybe for a turn or two when I had conquered a city before the earlier city hadn't been razed yet. I was able to build Notre Dame in Karakorum, which also helped a lot with unhappiness. I captured far too many useless workers. You can disband them for about 17 gold, but I found that they are actually very useful as scouts. This way I didn't need to reload saves, as I lost only one keshik to Persia, and that was only because I forgot to bring workers from India. Against Arabia, for example, I had a lot of workers and that way I always knew where the enemy was, and the enemy would also often waste their attack on capturing workers instead of attacking my units. Using the workers as bait is also kind of a historical nod to the real Mongols, as apparently they sometimes deliberately drove refugees before them to cause chaos within the enemy before they attacked.

Congratulations! Great video!

Great video, thanks for uploading it. Just one question here, it seems that you are splitting your troops fairly evenly between rough terrain combat bonus and non-rough. When I tried a play-through of this scenario it appeared that the vast majority of cities were built on non-rough terrain. Looking back, do you think speccing heavier into non-rough would be a better option? Also, I find that indirect fire before additional range is the better upgrade, as I'm blocked more than I am out of range

My first time was going "okay", a little behind the video. I ended up leave it behind to try again, because I had made too many mistakes in terms of promotions (didn't realize you needed lvl3 of accuracy/barrage to get the good stuff). Now in my second run, I'm two turns ahead of the video! Jin are defeated and I'm only on turn 16.

Would you share your system specs and software used for recording?

Hey I used your over all strategy and have passed this scenario on deity. I manage to finish it within 90t, so there are a few improvement I do to your strategy. First at the last city of Arabia, I conquered the CS at the right of it first because it is extremely annoying and it don't consume very much time. So unlike you, I didn't lost any promoted Keshik there, and it accelerate the conquer very much. Secondly, I didn't raze those city with horses, so I can keep buying keshik, and the new keshiks can make the later game easier. Thirdly I invest some army at home so the rebel wouldn't ruin the horses at home, at least not for too long. Finally, I conquered Japan mush faster than you, I don't know why is that but somehow I take Japan down within 80T. So Japan isn't that hard, I think, because the tough terrain influence not only you but also the AI, and apparently they are not good at dealing with it.

awesome

im verry happy to find this vid, cause most walkthroughs are over 1.5y old. I have two questions: Does this unlock the lower achievements? - Are you gonna do other scenarios? like vikings for example

How come the catapults and the cho-ko-nu and such don't bother to shoot you when you leave yourself in range?? That doesn't even happen on my king games, much less deity!

That is not an easy scenario. Great vid

You know you can sell a city's buildings while burning it down, right?

Is it better to raze the cities than making them puppets?

I don't know why but your units do way more damage than mine. Take the start for example. That very first unit you attack with keshik when attacking Western Xia, it dies in one hit. My keshik only does 4 damage, even after using a 2nd Keshik, it's still alive. I'm not sure why your units do way more damage than mine, considering i did exactly as you did.

welp. cant steal a civs gold then DOW anymore

I tried this scenario blind on prince, killed China and was almost done with Jin but before I knew it I ran out of turns 😢

Долой Штолле!

37:15 reinicio né pilantra.. Kkk

-_- it speak like Chinese what the hell its not Mongolian because i am Mongol

Yea no thanks, I suck way too much, I just cheated lol

It Thai n Laos dump ass