Parthia - Fixed? and Some General Questions

[ajtboy]

I'm back from that Bachelor party - Body parts and all...lol

I've retested Parthia after the fix on Highways, etc...using SVN (Beta Testing), RTW 1.5, VH/VH, and O turn.

1) I can now recruit ALL units available in my capital after maxing out my capital city and building all with process_cq in the command prompt. I did however find that the Highway building card is incorrect and shows an image of a roman/Greek style barrack. I've seen these before when something is missing in Vanilla, and other Mods.

2) Is this the best the Parthian's can do for foot units? What about immortals? Or do I not see them until I capture the southern areas of Persia? I know they are primarily a Calvary peoples...but just wondering.

3) Based on the answer to #2...what do people think the best combo of troops for them would be?

As last comment, I see there is some struggle going on with the installer...that should be the focus no matter, fixing something small like this really can be done later. Truth is NOTHING is perfect in this world, and should anyone claim it is...they are quite frankly a fool. Hope it works out.

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[Chernish]

ajtboy,
parthians had not immortals. Immortals were guard of Achemenids, persian dinasty. Parthians were not persians, but part of Dachae Tribes from north steppes. People of horsemen, nomadic...

The best tactic for Parthian is mounted warfare... Horse archers + katafraktoi... and no infantry except garrisoned troops...

[ajtboy]

ajtboy,
parthians had not immortals. Immortals were guard of Achemenids, persian dinasty. Parthians were not persians, but part of Dachae Tribes from north steppes. People of horsemen, nomadic...

The best tactic for Parthian is mounted warfare... Horse archers + katafraktoi... and no infantry except garrisoned troops...

The only question is, when trying to take a city with walls...one will need infantry to use siege towers and rams...and to eventually take those walls.

I'm gonna test it out and see how far I can take this faction with little use of infantry.

[Brusilov]

The only question is, when trying to take a city with walls...one will need infantry to use siege towers and rams...and to eventually take those walls.

I'm gonna test it out and see how far I can take this faction with little use of infantry.

Maybe you need to have 'field armies' and 'siege armies'?

I guess you could always attempt to recruit mercenaries to provide an infantry elemement to a 'field army' - if you have a full stack 'field army' just splt off some of the cavalry so you can hire the mercenaries.

Use the 'field armies' to remove any forces that are not in a settlement and to intercept any approaching army that may help lift the siege. If there is a unit outside of a settlement you can always attack that and the settlement garrison wil act as reinforcements to that unit - destroy them and the task of taking the settlement is easier.

It's still pretty hard to get a horse to climb a ladder though....

[Chernish]

The only question is, when trying to take a city with walls...one will need infantry to use siege towers and rams...

Usually AI is trying to lift the siege of the fortress and after the defeat of the Field Army town falls into the hands of the winners.
In RSII works great tactics developed in EB - see here http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...ssorted-Things

and here - http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...-Horse-Archers

With some adjustments its work fine...