Originally Posted by
Diocle
What I feel deeply wrong here (apart the units' armors, colors and weapons) it is the whole concept about the Sassanids, seen as a terrible barbaric horde, invading the 'civilized' Roman Empire, the Sassanids look like an horde of fanatics and filthy barbarians, the reality was totally different, Romans and Persians (Parthians firstly then the Sassanids) were engaged in a tragic fight for five centuries, they were the greatest political entities of the Ancient World, the Sassanid Empire was not a nomadic horde of barbarians! It was a enormous Empire with a very complex political, cultural, and military organizations, its religion influenced the Roman world, they were not barbarians as the Huns.
In those lands it was made the great History of both Empires: how to forget Crassus? How to forget the failed expedition of Antonius against the Parthians? How to forget the sack of Antioch following the defeat and the capture of the Emperor Valerian at Edessa? ... and then, the repeated Roman sacks of Ctesiphon, during the II and III centuries? The death of Julian at Samarra! Centuries of war and diplomacy at the highest levels, a neverending struggle causing the ruin of both the Empires. This is the complex History of the relations and the wars between Rome and Persia.
The Sassanid Empire was an highly civilized Empire not inferior to Rome for sure, the two parts exchanged their roles many times, frequently the Romans sacked the Persian lands acting as barbarians, killing and burning all they found on their way, the same did the Sassanids in many occasions, and actually the Age of Attila was not the climax of the bad relations between Romans and Sassanids.
This game looks like a Fantasy game, occasionally using history as background. I know that not many players have read Ammianus Marcellinus, Zosimos or the Emperor Julian's works, but this is not a good reason to offer us a so weak historical picture of that age, History is always more interesting than Fantasy.
Just once, try to give us some History, please.