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Culturally, yes, they are somewhat inspired by the Mongols, Huns, and other Steppe Peoples.
Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest
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Culturally, yes, they are somewhat inspired by the Mongols, Huns, and other Steppe Peoples.
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- Hell
>Implying you can subjegate the nomads
They were known as empire-killers for a reason. Now, we have a better rapid-response than most, but they can still raid and plunder with the best of them.
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- Germany
they are flightless how about we simply let the dogs dig a moat and laugh at them while we drop stones from WAY up high.
Sadly i fear those guys will suck HARD tradewise, since they are nomadic.
Sadly i fear those guys will suck HARD tradewise, since they are nomadic.
Why aren't we forming the royal army prior to poking neighbours with a stick and rolling if a first contact war will start? This expedition went well, but for all "We must unite Griffonia because the outside is dark and full of terror!" propaganda used for the unification, the griphons are being ridiculously careless
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- Hell
Not true. Silk Road is another possibility. They can trade goods from beyond their lands like they did in real life.
Steppe Nomads have two modes that they switch between, raiders and traders.
Much better to give them stuff at a discount than deal with them as raiders.
*rolls eyes*they are flightless how about we simply let the dogs dig a moat and laugh at them while we drop stones from WAY up high.
Sadly i fear those guys will suck HARD tradewise, since they are nomadic.
Because as nomads they have never had to deal with rivers before. Because tiring out our forces on stupendously impractical practices is clearly the way to go.
And again, Silk Road.
Well, the west kinda sucks. and unless anything of value is discovered i suggest we ignore expanding there for now. Though we should set up the imperial army next turn.
well, i guess assimilation os their (and ours) best bet at stability. Or a huge wall. Nomad clans aren't known for stability, so its likely we would get a eventual raid from them sooner or later as @Sivantic pointed out. They have (currently) a lower tech level than ours (apparently) AND no flier units so it would be a very difficult for them to exert dominance over us, but they could become a deterrent to our progress by raids (and grow with our tech if they don't have it).
Worst case scenario we can... you know, drop rocks on their settlements from above(and have Archimedes develop the world first chemical/incendiary weapon) but being a nomadic culture they don't keep much sessile assets anyways.
Worst case scenario we can... you know, drop rocks on their settlements from above(and have Archimedes develop the world first chemical/incendiary weapon) but being a nomadic culture they don't keep much sessile assets anyways.
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- United States of America
With wood being scarce over there that logging action we have can provide a good source of trade for the yaks.
ChaosTheVoid
Beyond the Outer Gates
Fortify the mountain passes. Leave the Yaks be, trade if there's anything of value.
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- Italy
oh, we'll surely upgrade our army next turn. We did become stronger in the last two turns anyway, after all we founded two more knight orders and integrated the militia. The idea was that we would leave the option with the highest upkeep for later.
Now that we KNOW we have neighbours (and that they could possibly be a threat, an ally OR a new vassal) it's the perfect moment to expand the army, both for security and to project strenght.
Not necessarily. They shouldn't have advanced tech/products, but they have info on their territory, which might include possible mining sites, and for all we know they might have their own flavour of magic (and magical knowledge) we might be interested in.
If we manage to integrate them in our empire they'd also probably be better than griphons and diamond dogs at the heaviest tasks, like transporting heavy goods by land.
There is actually an interesting sinergy here: Griphons in the airs, Yaks on land, and Diamond Dogs under it (+ our cutie dragoness of course)
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- Hell
Problem is they are not a conglomerate. They are a bunch of little clans. Which means contiuous diplomacy actions to any group that pops up on our borders.
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- Italy
it also means we have a good chance of getting a few of those clans to join us. We have better climate, more food and more tech.
They have...well.. I'm sure they have something to offer
...we have gunpowder! bombs are the way to go!
banjo2E
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Pretty sure China said that about the Mongols once. Then they got conquered by the Mongols.
Still, a big part of why the Mongols made that work was because they pulled off some genius diplomacy with disgruntled regions of China, and from the sounds of things the Yaks don't really have much in the way of diplomacy yet. So if we play our cards right and make them like us, we can probably avoid the worst of that. Probably.
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Hm. The Steppe peoples were Empire killers because of their impressive mobility and the fact that they could sustain a ton of warriors for their population size. Griphons are natural predators with much higher mobility than Yaks, so we counter that about as hard as possible.
Unless there is a China equivalent on the other side of Yakyakistan for them to subjugate and yoink siege warfare tech from, they'll also have huge problems with the combination of our heavily fortified settlements and the ability to fly allowing us to bring in supplies to besieged towns almost unchallenged.
Only way i see the Yaks becoming a threat to the great Empire is if they have some bullshit levels of magic up their sleeves. We don't have a counter to that.
Unless there is a China equivalent on the other side of Yakyakistan for them to subjugate and yoink siege warfare tech from, they'll also have huge problems with the combination of our heavily fortified settlements and the ability to fly allowing us to bring in supplies to besieged towns almost unchallenged.
Only way i see the Yaks becoming a threat to the great Empire is if they have some bullshit levels of magic up their sleeves. We don't have a counter to that.
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- Space
Yaks actually live in cold climates even in the RL and since they are nomads crossing mountains in big numbers isn't really a problem for them.
We should solve them while they are still disunited or we might have ourselves a Mongols on doorsteps.
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- USA
You say that but they have yet to cross the mountains yet and i doubt hey had a reason to before now besides there to busy fighting each other to deal with us. Also i think we would notice a big number of yaks starting to come down from the mountain, stealth dosent seem like a strong suit for them.
I think we might want to advance our tech a little bit more, but with our natural advantage combined with gunpowder we could probably pull a Russia on the Yaks.
I feel like we can outmaneuver the yaks with our flight and decimate them with our ranged units.