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Hmm, I think if you can convert them, or just edit the save/scenario file you can.
Dont know much about the Cumans.....when did they convert to Orthodoxy?
Dont know much about the Cumans.....when did they convert to Orthodoxy?
Why would you wanna play as the Cumans? Get chased out of the steppes by the Mongols and flee to Hungary where you're persecuted and have your Khan killed? Than in reprisal butcher several thousand Hungarians and flee to Romania..... could be promising I suppose. And it wasn't so much that the Cumans themselves converted but it was their Khan. Well at least the batch that got chased out of central Asia by the Mongols.
The Cumans/Polovtsii were around both before and after the mongol invasions(a large group of them served in the Byzantine-Polovtsian Guard for many years), but Arrh! - They mostly be foul heathen and are thus unplayable.
Alexandru H. said:
Their upper classes were, partly, in the process of conversion, if I remember correctly; but their old practices must have died hard, because chieftain's graves from the 1220s(probably) of (probable) Polotvsian origin have been found. If I remember Vasiliev correctly, that is.
I have to admit I'm kind of foggy on what happened after they entered Romanian and south Hungarian lands, but some modern people seem to think they are Cumans:
http://www.indigenous.ru/english/bulletin/e_38.htm#People
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What a shame that they did not convert earlier it would be cool to play as a christian nomad crusading faction with Constantinople so close... 
John F Nordlund said:What a shame that they did not convert earlier it would be cool to play as a christian nomad crusading faction with Constantinople so close...
you could still have em.. maybe
Play as hungary, join crusades but take a detour, demanding the their vassalisation and conversion.
Then their troops can be recruited.. especially if taken as crownlands
The camel said:you could still have em.. maybe
Play as hungary, join crusades but take a detour, demanding the their vassalisation and conversion.
Then their troops can be recruited.. especially if taken as crownlands