Golden Horde - Scourge From The East

Atomic Lodoss - Thanks, I'm glad it was appreciated.

Chief Ragusa - Not a bad guess, you'll have to wait to find out if you're right

zebomba - Thanks for taking the ffort to read it all. Its gotten quite long. I intend to go right through to 1819.

Grundius - Quite right.

jwolf - Thanks very much. As for the plan, this is the Golden Horde you need to think bigger than that

Chief Ragusa - Not bad but we shall see.

HistoriK - Glad to have you back.

Talkingdonkey - Sounds like a good, errr, motto for the Horde.

Suwaida : Part 2

Chigishi finally takes up a permanent position after recovering from a year or two of partying following his victory​

The mid 1640's became known in the Horde as the years of the angry allies. First of all Chagatai declared war upon Tibet. It looked to be a pointless war that could bear little and would delay efforts to annex Ferghana. Suwaida therefore immediately offered peace. It was accepted but much to Suwaida's surprise and frustration his allies refused to co-operate and continued the war. Were they sick of being sold out by the Horde or were Suwaida's well known crazy schemes weakening the Horde's reputation?

But Suwaida didn't let it bother him. Instead he revealed to Ennedi the purpose of the boats and gifts to Denmark. Suwaida had heard stories of a great land to the west. It had untold riches on offer but was already being taken by the Christians, Denmark among them. Not content to let this happen Suwaida had arranged for Ennedi to be allowed through Danish colonies which would be reached with the aid of those foreign contraptions, boats.

Ennedi and his men departed, to much fanfare, in mid 1643. But it shortly after leaving port on the Sea of Azow it became clear that either sails or oars would be needed to reach the destination.

Fortunately the hapless mariners were carried back in by the tide some hours later and the necessary alterations were begun.

So one month later than planned Ennedi left on his historic boat voyage (which even in itself would be a first for the Horde). The horrors of being somewhere devoid of tree or rock, that wasn't the steppes, were immense and Ennedi's relief at standing once again on land was such that he modestly gave the new place the inelegant name Ennedica.

Ennedica was soon found to be cold, barren and windswept so naturally the Tatars felt quite at home and immediately began efforts to build a town.

Meanwhile a peace was at last concluded between the Horde's allies and Tibet. Suwaida was delighted to be able to continue efforts to annex Ferghana. But the time wasn't known as the years of the angry allies for only a war with Tibet. Iraq once again came to the party and stuffed things up.

Surprise, surprise. Looks as if the Ottoman war advisors have moved to Baghdad​

As before Suwaida made peace with the enemy immediately. But again the Horde's allied called the deal illegal and continued their war on Ethiopia.

This was quite an insult to Suwaida and not one that went unnoticed in the Horde. His support already strained by his new ideas began to crumble. When that happens to a Khan it is only a matter of time before the end. I came in July 1646. Chigishi, now a living legend in the Horde, marched on Astrakhan with a large army.
There was no resistance and Suwaida was quickly forced to abdicate by means of beheading. Chigishi was crowned that day thus bringing an end to the period of the mad brothers reign.

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Note: On my old computer I never patched the folder of this game to 1.09 because I wasn't sure of compatibility at the time. When I installed the patch though it updated this game to 1.09 anyway. However when I switched the folder over to my new computer it appears the patching did not carry over in this game. I didn't realise until the problems with the leader of alliance cropped up. It has now been fixed.