Questions for a future AAR

[Tommy4ever]

After I finish with my current D'Albon AAR I plan to do one about the Pechenegs. However I've got a couple of questions that I would like to ask the CK AAR reading public:

Firstly and most importantly I plan on converting from Paganism to Christianity at some point but do not know whether to go Orthodox or Catholic. Which shoudl I go for?

If I go Catholic I will call the state the Grand Duchy of the Pechenegs and gravitate towards Hungary (possible joining the Magyar state).

If I go Orthodox then I will either go North to try to dominate Russia or South to try to either take lands from or join the Byzantines.

Next I plan on using M2TW in game screens for battles due to a lack of good pics on google. From a picture I've seen of a Pecheneg they look like East Asians, they are ethnically a Turkic group though. They also use almost exclusively horse archer tactics. Should I use the Turks, the Mongols or another state (from M2TW) to represent the Pechenegs?

 

[Hannibal X]

Orthodox. For one, you could help Byzzies and Russia against Cumans and Muslims and Magyars, which allows more avenues for expansion. Second, everything from Northern Spain to Poland is Catholic. We need more Orthodoxy. Use the Mongols to represent their fellow steppe warriors.

Go Principality of Pechenegs/Future Kingdom of Khazaria!

 

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Orthodox. Like Hannibal said, you could the Greeks and Russians against the Cumans and Muslims and Magyars (oh my), which on the whole, gives you more areas of expansion then just the (as a whole, probably poorer) Catholic lands. Plus, there aren't enough Orthodox AARs around.

I would recommend going north, to battle the Russians. Perhaps you could have some sort of a Russo-Pecheneg cultural Renaissance at one point?

Use Mongols to represent them.

 

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Mmm although I am tempted to say catholic for fun and laughs, orthodoxy makes more sense. The Pechenegs where influenced by the orthodox Byzantines and Bulgarians.
Also, the Pechenegs where a Turkish tribe, use the Turks I say. Mongolians are too East-Asian looking to represent them.

 

[Mr. Capiatlist]

I would stay pagan longer. Basically do as the Turks do best, move west, settle the lands and then convert based on the nations around you and who you've fought in the past.

 

[Tommy4ever]

Forget what I said before.

Has anyone ever done a Golden Horde AAR?

Would people be interested in one?

I would probably convert to one of the Christianities, change my culture (to get rid of Mongol bonus) and Feudalise after the first few riegns.