Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25981649-20170215202502/@comment-29680750-20170220130948

I imagine the wainriders as a mix between Parthian and Mongolian cultures. The dominant unit I imagine to be like a Parthian mounted archer, extremely powerful enemies at the best of times. The Romans recorded them as firing dozens of arrows before riding off into the distance. Whether this is possible without using complex AI I do not know but I imagine it to be quite simple. (When an enemy troop enters a certain range it could trigger a "flee" reaction where the horseman runs away)

As for the Mongolian side of things they could live in traditional yurts: Portable huts made of animal skin with a hole in the roof for the smoke to come out. They could also use traditional light, armourless calvary using Mongol Sabers.

To the balcloth I would give a more Mesopotamian Influence. To show this they would live in a Fertile Crescent between to rivers. I imagine them for some reason using two handed axes like the ones used in Europe in the 1st millennium. These however would be made of bronze instead of iron to represent their Bronze Age roots. They would farm oatsand wheat, eat porridge and drink a type of brown oatmeal beer.

Finally the Variags of Khand. These should use chariots farm yaks and their main weapon should be a type of longspear used for fighting on/in their chariots.