Khans of the Steppe Game Ideas

[CannaeCogitate]

Besides the obvious "Conquer the Whole world as my favorite historical ruler/culture" What are some playthroughs you have planned when KotS releases?

My ideas so far include:
As Saka, gather power on the steppe to push south into Persia and establish something *new* down there.
Play as a breakaway Kuzarite Khan who survives the dissolution of Khazaria
Do the Seljuk thing myself.
Play as one of the optionally nomadic areas and see what I can do, perhaps establishing a Bedouin exclave in the deserts of western India (a-la Ahmadiyya)
Establish a thriving and prosperous feudal realm in Siberia, unbothered by what's going on down south of the nomads.

 

[Cyhort]

I want to play as a custom European adventurer, eventually settle down with my family as a nomad, then Laurence of Arabia the steppe cultures and use them to conquer my former homeland.

 

[WTH666444]

I want to play as a custom European adventurer, eventually settle down with my family as a nomad, then Laurence of Arabia the steppe cultures and use them to conquer my former homeland.

Lawrence in shambles

 

[Willy Waggler]

I want to play as a custom European adventurer, eventually settle down with my family as a nomad

I'm curious what will happen if you use "Become a Great Conqueror" decision on nomad. What will happen to your government and culture.

 

[vyshan]

There are a couple various ideas.

1.) Hungarian European adventures: start as the Hungarians, conquer the carpathian basin and go on your raids and then convert to either catholicism or orthodoxy.

2.) the ride of the New English: Starting as Siward form New England, then become Nomadic and basically be real rohirim

3.) from nomads to rajas: starting as a nomadic tribe and migrate into India and form a new dynasty. Might tie this in with the recent form Hindustan decision by being muslim, or maybe I would convert to one of the dharmic faiths.

 

[Irmingardr]

might try to do a prester john thing dunno what yet

 

[Atalvyr]

I try to plan around some achievements, so I will probably go for one of the eastern steppe nomads and then wander westwards. Might settle in or around Poland to check out the new clothing there as I've not played in that area since the pack for west slavic came out.

Definitely going to go for the new Cataphract Archers. Those seem OP as hell.

 

[Tom The Viking YT]

What are some playthroughs you have planned when KotS releases?

1. Choose a small ruler
2. Conquer enough land to create a kingdom
3. Hybridize culture with siberians or slavs and call it Tartarian
4. Create the Great Tartarian Empire
5. As the cherry on the top create a unique faith

 

[Benismann]

I remember migrating as some slavic tribe into Alsace in TFE and creating a big gallo-slavic empire, could repeat that in vanilla now maybe.
Kuzarites in NOT 867 is a thing i did and would be interested in doing it again (i wonder if it will once again take just 1 character to do basically everything)
Maybe check kyrghyz khanate out, never touched them
And probably do some dumb shit in MP this saturday.

Jk, the actual plan is to boot vanilla game, play a few hours, probably get disappointed and spend way too much time fixing it through mods.

 

[High Speed Flying Gladius]

Take one of the independent nomads in either 867 or 1066, become nestorian, migrate southward, settle in northern mesopotamia, create mongolo-assyrian empire, commit atrocities, crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentation of their women.