Home Trending Latest threads New posts Developer diaries

Golden Horde - Scourge From The East

Jump to latest Follow Reply
  • We have updated our Community Code of Conduct. Please read through the new rules for the forum that are an integral part of Paradox Interactive’s User Agreement.
top.jpg
Goyotsetseg Radnaabazar: Part 4
Goyo was most determined that this war would be favourable for three things. The Horde, Berker Khan and his image. It would seem that the importance he placed on each was not necessarily in the same order. As the snows began to melt in 1741 Goyo was the first man across the border into Tataristan. To immortalise the moment Goyo commissioned an artist to paint the scene. He was given free license to dramatise.
gogoyo.png

The scene as painted by official Horde artist Borognardo Babinci
688-goyoin.png

The Horde rides​

Battles were numerous and deadly. The Horde's traditional swift cavalry oriented approach to warfare was highly effective at ending the lives of many of the enemy. However this area was also home to another of the Horde's traditional tactics, letting old man winter do the job of killing. It prevented any notable progress in the capturing of cities and Goyo was forced to withdraw to find another way forward.
689-chaos.png

The war is chaotic and the capture of Kurgan is the only solid progress​

Meanwhile the Safavids managed to force Mesopotamia to pay for peace. It was a development that annoyed Goyo but also provided some reassurance that Mesopotamia would pose little threat when their time came to face the Horde.
690-safavids.png
Goyo was secretly disappointed, and secretly out of pocket after losing 25 ducats on a wager about this.​

As 1742 began Goyo began the use of a new tactic against Tataristan. It involved a heavy reliance on infantry. The specific tactics however to be used were kept secret under the codename, Operation Cannon Fodder.
 
Duke of Wellington said:
Goyo was most determined that this war would be favourable for three things. The Horde, Berker Khan and his image. It would seem that the importance he placed on each was not necessarily in the same order. As the snows began to melt in 1741 Goyo was the first man across the border into Tataristan. To immortalise the moment Goyo commissioned an artist to paint the scene. He was given free license to dramatise.
gogoyo.png

​
Click to expand...
Yes, that's... forward? You sure that you don't have some uzbeks in hiding?
 
Infantry? Goyo's gone and done it, proved he's insane. They're recuited from all the losers in the great Berker Khan competition.

The Safavids look as though they could put up quite a serious fight against are-united (slightly) Horde.

Keep up those tartar tactics; charge towards an enemy firing arrows all the while and then return to your original positions firing all the while.
 
Operation Cannon Fodder. Or Operation "led the peasants take the attrition, not my pricey cavalry". Well, I think Horde hardliners could agree with it.
 
Infantry? I'm guessing that you put a fort level or two in former lands and now it has come to bite you in the butt, eh? What a terrible pass, infantry in the horde armies....Cannon Fodder is a great name for it though....Might as well use the dregs of society for something useful instead of sucking on the teat of the state...:)
 
Long live the Horde! Long live Khan Goyo! Long live Berker Khan!
 
Berker Khan. No other establishment can match it... Even the battlefield knows it.
 
GrimPagan - Maybe uzbeks doing the painting somewhere.

Chief Ragusa - Insane you think? We shall see : )

J. Passepartout - Is there anything else to feed them on?

Grundius - You're catching on, although some Horde hardliners (see Chief Ragusa) are not happy with this.

Saulta - Thanks.

Amric - Aye, I used the usual tactic of storming in with cavalry but with the forts and severity of winter it just wasn't a realistic option for getting hold of provinces.

Fingal
safa.jpg

Here's the Safavids, with only one prov bordering Mesopotamia they did well to beat them in a war. Mesopotamia has sizable armies too.

the great Gen. - Thanks very much.

billy bob - Excellent sentiment.

Karasuman - The bastards at KFC may need a little more convincing though.
 
top.jpg
Goyotsetseg Radnaabazar: Part 5
Operation Cannon Fodder was bloody. Or as Goyo liked to add with a grin "bloody successful". The deaths tolls were high as infantry were used liberally as a means of storming the numerous citadels guarding Tataristans lands. Such reports should of course be considered sceptically but one chronicler detailed that "...in Sadrinsk so many bodies piled up that ultimately the siege was successful because the cavalry were able to march over the walls on the ramp formed by the infantry before them."
ae_siege1.jpg

A return to tactics of old except no longer were the men for aerial spying, instead they were hurled against the walls due to the of scarcity of rock on the steppe

697-siege.png

A carefully doctored image of the siege of Kurgan that omits the piles of infantry "resting"​


Whatever the costs in human life the results spoke for themselves. In the short summer months two campaigns succeeded in capturing the heartland of Tataristan.
691-taken.png

The capital beckons​

To keep quiet the truth about the cost of the campaigns Goyo began to spread propaganda reporting that it was the use of Berker Khan's fine products that gave the boys their strength to overcome the vile rebels who were fuelled on inferior Karakorum Fine Cuisine products.
The propaganda was exceedingly successful, even spreading beyond the Horde's borders and leading to renewed efforts by England to gain access for their men to tasty, nutritious Berker Khan products.
694-access.png

The answer is still no​

As the summer of 1743 arrived Goyo gathered his new recruits. Thinking themselves in for a little battle and lots of good food they marched eagerly towards Kustanai, the Tataristan capital.

The siege began with the customary offer of surrender and mercy from Goyo extended to Kustanai. And the customary rejection and severed messengers head returned by Kustanai. After that it was straight down to business.
meat_grinder.jpg

One soldiers description of the siege

695-capital.png

Kustanai about to fall​

692-gotem.png

696-lookingbetter.png

That's better. The Russian Khanate made some gains from the war too as you can see in the north.​
 
What a splendid idea! Using infantry as actual cannon fodder! Brings new meaning to the word! I suppose using their exceeding hard heads probably helped smash down a wall or two...or least by piling the bodies as a ramp it allowed the cavalry to get up to the top of the wall...now did they do the smart thing and drop a bunch of infantry on the other side to make another ramp for the cavalry to go down as well? :)
 
Those five provinces are still uncolonised. Damn tartaristan! Berker Khan regains its outlets in one of the rebel lands. The infantry tactic was successful, perhaps too successful as they will now be part of all Horde armies. Goyo has changed the Horde for all time.

Will Goyo continue the eastern expansion towards rththe ancestral home or will he look to recover the lands of Mespotamia and the Russian Khanate?
 
Good to see that the rightful heirs to the Fastfood Empire are reclaiming what is rightfully theirs. Now you just need to reclaim those vile Blue patches, while of course cunningly avoiding rebellion by sending as many potential rebels/peasants as you can to a horrible, infantry-based death in all the sieges you will face :D
 
Good. Tartaristan is dead. I thought they were uzbeks in disguise anyway.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back