>keep hearing about how incredible and feared mongol tactics were
>look it up
>they just spam horse archers and rape the enemy with arrows until they get tired and then send in the horse lancers
>repeat
seriously, nigger?

You are 1 guy in a village about to be raided, what do you do to repel the mongol horde? Go.

>>17785446 (OP)
It worked, and nobody that wasn't a steppe monkey could easily emulate it because sedentary societies of the period didn't have the same exposure to horsemanship and horse archery

>>17785527
Grab everything of value and either hide somewhere secure or run to the nearest castle

>>17785446 (OP)
Yeah, and they beat almost everyone they came across with it.

>>17785527
surrender quickly.