GNW. Kalmyk troops

[Nikel]

Kalmyk troops were used by Peter the Great to suppress rebellions (for example Bulavin's) and for the GNW itself.

However there are no kalmyks in the game? I see their leader Ayuka or Ayuki Khan, but no troops.

[PhilThib]

They are in, they use the Crimean tatars units... here is what Ayuka brings:

Ayuka uni_RUS_Ayuka1
Volga uni_KRI_Tat
Kalach uni_KRI_Tat
Kotovo uni_KRI_Tat
Kazanskaia uni_KRI_Tat
Arkadak uni_KRI_Hrs

[Nikel]

But Kalmyks and Tatars are not the same thing. Mongoloid the first, the Tatars seem so be more Turkish. Though both are related.

I see the tatar cavalry is clearly mongoloid.

Anyway Ayuka was Kalmyk.

Perhaps a native russian may comment, or Baris, our ottoman warlord

[PhilThib]

We'll have to leave racial subleties here, We only have graphic recycled from Napoleon game and it was a Bashkir cavalry, so quite close to Kalmyk in the end...