It will usually be the Viking Age or later before you can do anything but raid and maybe, if lucky, pick off a weak Uyghur rebellion. Try to keep Bonek of the Uyghur happy until then by always agreeing to join his wars and keep your chancellor on him to improve relations. Then it's fairly easy to raid the Buddhist silk road rulers in the Tarim basin to the south and build up cash to buy mercenaries and win the inevitable war with the Uyghurs for independence and then conquest. As soon as you have 250 manpower, always buy a new 250 light cav unit or a 200 LC/50 heavy cav. It's a waiting game, slowly building up your manpower and thus horde until you can field a 1000+ stack to go raiding. Invite some debutantes and makes concubines, because you'll need them! Spend some prestige, piety and gold early to invite a couple of commanders, a better shaman and some nobles for a better chancellor and steward. There is usually one sister of a Khagan or Khan in Tobol or Tyumen you can marry and that's it. Even finding a bride who won't cost you -400 prestige is hard. You're surrounded by Manicheans and too far from almost all of the other Tengri rulers to be able to get any good marriage alliances to help.
The hardest start in 769 is arguably the poor 2 county Mongols, stuck far away to the east and as tributary to the Uyghur.
The Uyghur almost always choose Zhetysu as their first conquest, either the Uyghur proper or the big clan closest to you. It's a good way to practice balancing clan issues with conquest and expansion toward the relatively weak Suomenusko tribes to the north.Īvoid Zhetysu as a beginner, since they tend to get picked apart by the Uyghur and the Muslims to the south fairly early. Khazaria is good too, but you have more clans to keep happy and it is easy to get into trouble with the Byzantines in the Crimea. Then pick off the others plus the Pechenegs, so you have the strength to go after the Uyghur and then Samarkand and Tarim to the south for riches and Khazaria for more silk road goodness to the west. Try to form marriage alliances with Yaik or Tobol or Tyumen. Don't let the Uyghur become too powerful. For 769, the easiest is probably Turkestan, although you have to be ready when the Abbasid Caliph comes for you, and he will since Dihistan is de jure part of his territories.
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