Once they are able to construct a Siege Workshop, the Mongols can then batter a hole through the Great Wall and challenge the four Chinese nations within. Still unable to produce advanced siege weapons, the Mongols must first kidnap some Chinese engineers.
Genghis' first target is the vastness of China. Once the Mongols are united, it is time to begin the great conquest. In the second scenario, you must eliminate the traitor Kushluk before he destroys the Mongol camp. The scenario has an RPG quality (difficult to achieve in an RTS!) as you must perform a different service for each of the tribes to convince them it is in their best interest to join with Genghis. In the first scenario, as messengers of Genghis, you must visit each of the Mongolian tribes and convince them to join the horde. You'll Get Nowhere Without Uniting the Mongols The first two scenarios in the Mongol campaign have the forces of Genghis Khan fighting other Mongols, struggling to unite the various tribes into an army. These scenarios feel the least like random maps (or ROR scenarios) of any in Age of Kings. The Genghis Khan campaign is a favorite among the Ensembles Studios designers because nearly all of the scenarios have unique victory conditions and cater to unusual play styles. Not bad for nomadic people living in felt tents. For a period of 200 years, the descendants of Genghis Khan essentially governed the entire known world.
The German knights had never seen anything like the Mongolian hordes, and after a series of stinging defeats, they too surrendered. Once he controlled all of Asia, Genghis continued on into Europe. He first united the various nomadic tribes in Mongolia, then proceeded to invade China and Japan to the east and Persia and Russia to the west. It is said his war of conquest was essentially a series of revenge-takings. Genghis (or Chingiss, or Jenghiz) Khan grew up in a felt tent. The results were deadly effective the Mongols rate of conquest of new territory remains the fastest ever in the history of the world. Off the battlefield, the Mongols used terror and superstition to wage war on a psychological front. The Mongolian army was highly organized and used well-orchestrated maneuvers and tactics.
But the Mongols did not fight as did the European knights, as individuals out for their own glory. The Europeans thought, wrongly, that they had been beaten by overwhelming numbers of undisciplined mobs of barbarians. It is almost bizarre how a bunch of nomadic horse archers one day decided to take over the world and actually did it, handily defeating larger armies of better-equipped soldiers. It helps when the protagonist of a story can be somewhat sympathetic, but then again, sometimes you just want to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world. We expect that those fans who find the tale of Joan of Arc too dramatic, or that of Barbarossa to be too obscure, to gravitate towards the butchery of the Genghis Khan campaign. And there were born the Mongols." From the Age of Kings Genghis Khan campaign They settled at the head of the Onon River. "A blue wolf took as his spouse a fallow doe.