[@Willy Vereb]

Because missiles create a big fiery explosion. It's the difference between shooting tiny holes into an absolutely enormous balloon and doing nothing, or reenacting the Hindenberg's explosion with a fiery kaboom that engulfs the entire airship in a great inferno of death. Not to mention that a missile could probably reach much greater altitudes.

[quote]Adjar Akbar![/quote]

HE MISSPELLED 'AJDAR'! BURN THE INFIDEL!!!

And for the last time they are supposed to be like Mongols! Not Arabs/Muslims! Albeit there is some Timurid (and hence Persian) influence in there, and if you didn't notice I actually named Babur after the founder of the Mughal Empire.