New Faction Preview: The Scythians

**Alexander III** · December 20, 2008, 02:55 AM

I didnt like eastern units before but these new pathians and scythians have changed my mind and those royal guards are one of my favourite units so far!

**tone** · December 20, 2008, 04:58 AM

Thanks. Same with me....I didn't really know anything until Dr H joined our team and gave some input. The east certainly looks set to be one of my favourite areas to run some campaigns now.

**ISA Gunner** · December 20, 2008, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by Alexander III

I didnt like eastern units before but these new pathians and scythians have changed my mind and those royal guards are one of my favourite units so far!

Yeah great. But way to re-open a 10 month old thread....

**cherryfunk** · December 20, 2008, 09:06 AM

What's wrong with re-opening this AWESOME preview?

**Sandrus Castus** · December 20, 2008, 02:05 PM

It must have been made by a brilliant... genius! Don't you think, cherryfunk? Any idea who it could have been?

**Germanicus J.** · December 20, 2008, 04:40 PM

i feel like this faction is really cool, but it needs like an non general non horse archer heavy cavalry, then it would be perfect. The parthians and the scythians seem to have a reletively small unit roster, the the units they have are superb. i am i alone on this?

**Worm** · December 20, 2008, 05:19 PM

There's an simple answer to that, Area Of Recruitment. Both scythia and parthia and every faction will have a ton of AOR units to their disposal.

**ISA Gunner** · December 20, 2008, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by cherryfunk

What's wrong with re-opening this AWESOME preview?

Nothing. Just the fact that we've all played as the Scythians (most of us) in game and have thoroughly enjoyed them. We don't need to dig up a preview off them because we have the full faction ready to play on your computers.

**tone** · December 20, 2008, 06:40 PM

Errrr no.
At the moment, the RS1.5 faction is the Sarmatians and has totally different and largely inaccurate units. RS2 has both Scythians and Sarmatians, and great fun they are too.

**KLAssurbanipal** · November 19, 2009, 04:35 PM

tone, did you see SOlo's units?

He made great skins and models for Scythians. Maybe want him in team?
Examples of his work:
http://img35.imageshack.us/i/scythiangeneral2.jpg/
http://img136.imageshack.us/i/scythiangeneral.jpg/
http://img35.imageshack.us/i/scythianlessergeneral.jpg/
http://img136.imageshack.us/i/scythi...dbearerbr.jpg/
http://img197.imageshack.us/i/scythi...rdbearerr.jpg/
http://img207.imageshack.us/i/scythi...guardlate.jpg/
http://img136.imageshack.us/i/scythiannoblearcher.jpg/
http://img35.imageshack.us/i/scythianbodyguard.jpg/
http://img23.imageshack.us/i/scythianhorseking.jpg/

**Tesla** · November 20, 2009, 06:22 AM

wow they sure look awesome

**tone** · November 20, 2009, 06:49 AM

no I didn't see them. Nice looking stuff

**torzsoktamas** · November 20, 2009, 06:59 AM

Yeah,the scythian bodyguard and noble archer looks awesome!

**TuranianGhazi** · July 22, 2012, 01:32 AM

Again, RSII leaves be breathless in awe!

Highly commendable job!

I find it very interesting how one group of nomads supplanted the others, almost arriving on their heels. Scythians were in the area earlier than the Sarmatians. Sarmatians pressed against them into these fertile plains above the Black Sea, irrigated by natural large rivers like the Volga and Don. Later, come Hunnic advance, the Sarmatians have largely supplanted Scythian lands, only to be push out by the Huns. Interestingly, the nomadic Alans remained in the area ever since the time of Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns, and even later Turkic Kipchak and Mongol Golden Horde times. One vestige of horse archer power survived until 1783, the Crimean Khanate, practically exactly at the same spot above the Black Sea.

As one character, Baheshtur, remarked in the game in Mount & Blade: Warband that one steppe power replaces another, if the previous wasn't strong enough to withstand. For example, the Indo-European nomadic peoples of Saka and Massagetae largely moved into India as a result of proto-TurcoMongol pushing from the east.