[Anonymous Player]

Although not a professional, I enjoy playing campaigns on hard difficulty.

However, I’m facing a frustrating issue while speedrunning – the mongol army often attacks my base 10 minutes into the game.

I’ve tried different strategies, but I keep getting swarmed by tatars and mongols.

Even after trying the 5-minute speedrun and following army-building videos, I can’t defeat the tatars army.

I suspect it could be a bug or a recent update, but I’m not sure.

Do any of you have a similar problem or some advice for me?

[ha_x5]

create vills with starting ressources, send them to wood mostly and gold.

Goal is to maintain ram production.

I also recommend to research armor on your Cav.

Build forward siege workshop and produce rams and send to nearest tc, fight off enemy army.

I don’t know what the winning conditions are tbh.

Destroy TCs AND 2 Castles?

Or only castles?

On my last try on hard my last standing ram just finished off the last castle and I was desperately running away with Kotyan from my chasers.

Won with 3 HP left on him 11.

So be sure there are better ways to play it 11.

Adapt.

Both on my medium and hard tries I don’t recall to be really in contact with the mongols.

That level is probaply supposed to utilize the Cuman feudal ram rush.

[Azot-Spike]

When I saw on Steam that there was an achievement to win that scenario without building any TCs, I realized that it could be the best way to win it.

The biggest problem is the Tatar starting army.

I did this:

– Put wood vills working on wood

– Research Bloodlines, Fletching and Cavalry Armor.

If you have the res, later you can get Archer armor and Forging

– Build a Tower with the other vills that aims the northernmost Tower of Tatars.

When you do so, garrison your vills because that will lure most of the Tatar army to attack you.

Hide your army behind the Tower and kill them all.

– Build a Siege Workshop and start creating Rams (3 at least)

– Take your Tower vills to the northwest.

There’s gold hidden there.

I can’t remember if there’s a Market, but if not, you can build one to adjust your eco, maybe if you want to create more Rams

– At this point, you could take your wood vills close to the gold vills, since that woodline may be raided by Mongols

– But the most important is your attack.

Don’t lose army to TC or enemy fire.

Kotyan can destroy a tower single-handedly.

But the most important is to destroy both Tatar TCs before they advance to Castle Age.

To do so, kill the remaining of the Tatar army, that is camping near the eastern TC.

Attract TC fire with Rams and destroy it.

Then go for the western one and do the same.

At this point you only need to destroy castles, which don’t have Murder Holes.

I suggest going first for the eastern one (less protected), while you slowly kill Towers protecting the western castle with Kotyan.

Your melee units can help very little at this point.

Create more Rams to kill castles faster.

There are two crucial points: The first attack, that kills most of the Tatar army and the first TC being destroyed, because there are some units there.

You need to avoid Ram losses.

Kipchaks and Cavalry won’t be crucial after Tatar units are killed

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