Players of strategy games, both old and young, well understand the meaning of the signs of rushing eastern hordes, galloping across the expanses of China, the Middle East and Europe, sweeping away everything in their path. There is not a single student of world or military history who would ignore the destructive phenomena and at the same time the enormous achievements of the most terrifying force in human history: the Mongols. Their very name pictures in our heads huge masses of horse archers c