How to Win a Domination Victory with Mongolia

The Approach

Establish Trading Posts inside rival territory as early and as often as possible — each one instantly grants extra Diplomatic Visibility, and Mongolia's doubled Combat Strength bonus per level means a handful of well-placed trade routes can swing a war decisively before it even starts. Keshig units, with their high mobility and reduced pillage-and-move cost, are built to exploit that advantage the moment war is declared.

Key Steps

• Prioritize Trade Routes into civilizations you intend to fight — the Visibility bonus this grants is the entire foundation of Mongolia's military edge.
• Declare war once your Visibility advantage is clearly established, not before — the Combat Strength bonus scales with the gap, so patience pays off.
• Use Keshig mobility to strike multiple targets in a single campaign rather than committing everything to one drawn-out siege.

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