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Noop_Noop posted...

when ghengis khan attacked europe, it was unlikely the entire continent could have feilded more than ~15-20000 knights

vs a mongol army that numbers in the hundreds of thousands.

The Mongol army in that time was seldom that large, partly because they were waging wars on multiple fronts simultaneously, or at least leaving small forces to "maintain pressure" while focusing on one front before returning later.

Numbers wouldn't have mattered anyway, Genghis Khan was outnumbered in nearly every battle (and when he wasn't, it was usually a siege, where typically you need far more attackers than defenders to overtake a walled castle/city) and still rolfstomped.