All of my production buildings were destroyed by the Mongols, except for the lone monastery in the north, and my last few units died trying to lure the Mongols into my allies' castles. My only population left was uncontrollable villagers, so I effectively had 0 population, and only 1 building, that made slow, non-combative units. And I'm pretty sure the Mongols had heresy, anyway. I had to beat the scenario by making monks from my one surviving building, quietly converting pagans in the forest, then getting the crusaders on my side. This was just barely enough to finish off the horde, and also the funniest way I've ever beaten a scenario.

The worst part of this scenario is that the only meaningful advantage gained from defeating the princes. Is that you get them off your back while do what really matters and collect the surrounding villages.

Strange, my allies were way more active, and the Mongols were way less glitchy, they decimated Vladimir (yellow) base and almost destroyed Novgorod (green) before they slowly split up and wittled down.

This was really fun, but still could use some bug fixes. Having your farmers killed by onagers is really frustrating.

This campaign has awesome flavour with the constant fleeing Cumans and Mongol foreshadowing but I really wish the execution of the mechanics was better. It would be nice if they were more clear with what triggered imp, and that your allies and the Mongols wouldn't bug out But, such is the price of complex scenarios using the engine, i suppose

I like the whole not needing to worry about eco, but waiting for tributes as an income is really not fun. And the Mongol timer really has me unnerved as someone who likes to take his time to prepare rather than have such a massive hoard thrusted upon me. A very cool scenario in concept, but not exactly well executed.

Definitely a toughie, but referencing your runthrough helped me make mine much smoother. I ended up pushing green and sniping red's castle form across the water. Then I pushed yellow, and let teal sit for awhile so that I could achieve other objectives and pick up military buildings. Like @jeolholtzman609 suggested down below, several tips worked out very well for me. 1. Capture food territories early on for tech research and kipchak production 2. Speaking of Kipchaks, hire a ton of these as able; they train fast, are cheap, and very combat efficient in the early going. 3. Later I got the option to betray the Cumans, I didn't do this because I had lots of Kipchaks and liked them. If you don't betray them Kotyan will join you later. 4. Hussars, halberdiers, and Heavy Cavalry Archers was my endgame composition. You really need all the military buildings you can get to maintain production. The unique techs you unlock makes these units very powerful.

Another missions with great concept but poor execution, nevertheles I enjoyed it. Like for example you own vills that also take space but you cannot control them is so annoying. Then final battle with mongols is RNG as hell also the thing that your allies don't do shit is just BS would have been much cooler if before Final battle there would start spawning your and allies units, have big allied cuman army, but make it still that you loose battle at Kalka River and then you have to wear down the army and beat Mongols, cumans would resign since they basically either died or escaped and Rus cities would fight on Also this marker cringe is just another BS in 2 missions not having market makes missions way harder in annoying way and in this mission you have market that you cannot even use bruuuh

Having Cumans come in from the East, talking about this dangerous menace, and suddenly stop is quite horrific

-Eco that you cant' control but still lose -Allies that only spam units until you capture them then become totally useless -RNG mongols that get glitchy -Text can get bugged and start repeating about the mongols coming -No explanation on how to reach imperial and it happens without the game telling you Yeah, once again the DLC proving that the devs didnt care and these scenarios are not polished. Like everyone is saying, cool concept, bad excecution

This scenario becomes from impossible to easy with a simple trick. Since your allies become inactive once the raid begins it’s best to take a few monks and spread them all out in every friendly base and switch you diplomacy to neutral since your monks have redemption you can convert your Allies’ military building to keep fighting you can switch back to ally so that you can still walk away thru the gates, your allies bases come with an advantage also you can convert their markets which is something you don’t have access at all in your base

14:18 "Ooh Mongols ... Where are youuu?" 14:25 *Mongols appear* "ya called for us?" This is pure comedy gold 😂😂😂

When I played this scenario to prevent idle villagers, it was to have the mills set to reseed and queue the farms.

28:04 I think it could be strategic to attack the trebs and rams at that moment, they were relatively unprotected.

For those Struggling here is a walkthrough that worked for me: Keep in mind on hard you *absolutely* need all four allies, all buildings and all quests finished. This needs to be done *before* the Mongol invasion. There is plenty of time before the Mongol attack, but there is a hidden timer. When Kotyan comes to help you are pretty close to their arrival I would say. 1. Focus on claiming all FARMS asap. That will give you the base for Imp + Hussars ( DO NOT RECLAIM ANY MILITARY BUILDINGS YET. They are too strongly defended and you dont really need them yet. Most importantly, your opponents will snipe them and you ABSOLUTELY need ALL external buildings for when the Mongols attack. 2. Focus on Green, who should attack you relentlessly first. Put 1-2 trebs on the castle and you have your first ally. I did not yet find a need to go for wood/gold. (Market is enough to buy Imp/Trebs) 3. Since you have your first ally, they will distract the other 3 enemies. Split your attention between reclaiming Wood/Gold sources and attackind RED. That should be a very easy castle to treb. 4. You have 2 Allies now. Start Claiming some military buildings bit by bit + go for CYan 5. You should have three allies now + most eco/military buildings. DO NOT GO TO YELLOW YET. That will trigger the Mongol invasion. Make sure to Help the Varangians go south (now that Red/CYan are your allies) for some gold and more importantly, help the Teutons for some super strong warriors top aid you in the battle to come. 6. Go for yellow. You need to break down the gate before you can reach the castle. Make sure your allies dont damage too much. Now that you have 4 allies the Mongol Invasion will be triggered. Mongol Invasion: Make sure everything is upgraded (Hussars, Halbs, Cav Archers). You need every production building working and mobile. Siege Onagers were too big of an investment for me to make work. I recommend only using those if you can get their moneys worth. 1. Do not face the Mongols head on right away when they are grouped initially. Use a mounted group to snipe the siege which should lag behind, and before the Mongol horde reacts. RUN. The large group should be preoccupied with Yellow anyway. 2. You WILL lose your main fortress after this. Make sure that all other production buildings are working and stacked with units. I forgot to do this but use the left fortress to pick up any lost relics. 3. From here you will start picking off Mongol units bit by bit, and kite them away from the main horde. You can kite them into your opponens castles, and garrison your units in them, to snipe siege. Try to protect your military buildings as much as possible. Resources are not an issue per se if you managed to get all of the buildings before the invasion. Hope this helps. Feel free to comment below if you need more advice.

I just wish allies were a tiny bit more active there at the end, otherwise what I did was lure out all the enemy fast horses and snipe their siege weapons with cavs and then just slowly let everyone die to castles

Your allies should give you control of their bases once they lose all their army tbh

the word massacre of our people is bandit

If you ignored the mongols on their first attack this will give you time to collect resources and have a good army, I have build 10 onagers before getting the crusaders, and had them hide below my base, when I was ready and my castle had at least 10-15 cuman horses in it, I went on and killed the first attacking party of the mongols. They attacked from the up side of my base literally were my castle was, and I started spamming them with the onager, literally, didn't lose a single unit from the crusaders xD, I killed almost all the army with the onager spam, and the rest I hunted them with the units I had hiding.

Ronin: Total War

Seems that the Siege Onager is the key to destroying Mongolian army. If you deleted your trash units earlier and make 60 onagers, Mongol cav archers would probably have been cleared up in one fell swoop.

Rus infantry but have Norman coat of arm on their shield, if this just a mod then its okay but in the official campaign is unacceptable

Either my game or your game is broken. The mongols destroyed every one of us in about 20 mins game time.Also my monks couldnt drop the relic into the last monastery that you manage to collect all relics before the game ends. It was so weird i gave up on 3.rd try

microsoft isn’t very good in history as I see. “Tsar” title of lordship is never ruled kyivan rus. velykyii kniiaz ruled

16:50 "Hopefully we can get some big onager shots." *proceeds to fatten half of his own army with a single onager shot.*

So does the Market work in this scenario or is it purely decorative?