They are mounted and use tactics similar to the Crimean Khanate: hit-and-run tactics with bows and arrows or charging straight towards you with spears and sabers. Tatar Raiders should not be encountered by new or inexperienced players - they usually attack small groups of farmers, scouts, and foragers but will target you too if your party is rather small. They spawn in groups of 3-60.
The prevalence of Tatar Raiders makes traveling Crimean lands dangerous to new and low-level players since they typically do not have enough cavalry, horses, or Path-finding skill to outrun them nor the means to defeat them in battle. Once the player has acquired a party of 15-20 troops, Tatar Raiders will run away from them, making access to lucrative trade routes to Azaq-kale, Bakhchisaray, and by extension the general Crimean area, much safer.
Stats and Equipment[]
Note: Troops have a set of default stats; at the beginning of a new game, these stats are randomly adjusted for each type of troop. The following is the default set for this troop as seen within the game code and may not reflect the specific stats you will see during actual gameplay. For more information, see Troop stats.
Tatar Raiders could, in a sense, be considered the With Fire & Sword equivalent of Steppe Bandits, seeing as they are horse archers that roam around the Crimean steppe.
Among other khanates established after the collapse of the Mongol Empire in Europe and the Middle East, the Crimean Khanate was a nation-state founded and dominated by Tatars.
Wikipedia has an article on this subject at: Tatars
