As such, they play very different to pretty much ever other civilisation, and are not for beginners.įor starters, they don’t need to build houses – the Mongols start with the maximum population size. They are the horse lords from the steppes, nomads who managed to conquer and forge one of the biggest empires in history under Genghis Khan and his descendants. The Mongol civilisation represents the greatest extent of Age of Empires IV’s civilisation asymmetry.