Originally Posted by
Strifeload
Ive been reading a lot about it as its facinates me:
Genghis Khan is a conqurer, who wanted to conqurer whole China and surrounding areas(why the chinese wall was built).
Attila is a raider against Romans(born 500 years later with different interest, but same warfare).
What would had worked against the huns/mongols was 2-handed weapon wielders, would could strike thier horse, but they would simple get shot on sight.
Basicly mongols/hun had a very special bound with thier horse. While child, they would grow up, taking care of the horses. The horse had a very important role in their culture.
While being masters at riding, they had extremely skilled archers(basicly what they invested in). Even today, unless you are competing in Olympics, you can't have that kind of skills in archery. They were the cowboys back then and knights was kinda like the native americans, when it came to warfare(they always struggle to maintain a good defensives posistion).
So it was very difficult times for Romans and eastern countries.
Fun fact: the reason for why Centaurs in WoW looks like asians in thier face, is because of the inspiration of these times.