Parthia's Economy

[Toad_Licker]

i started a campaign as parthia and immediately noticed the poor economy. i sent an exibition to the rebel settlement across the sea, to secure the port and boost the trade income. well that didnt do anything. i spent all the money i had building two armies to help protect and expand and the rest of the money went on building what i could. not three years into the campaign and seluecia attacked. now im i fly compared to them but i had two armies and some ten years later and 30 plus battles i have held my own and now control 5 provinces with one more coming next turn. but my economy is still failing, im in serious detb and its not getting any better! i cant afford to retrain my armies and with each battle i become further undone.

im holding my own and, actually doing quite well but i cant keep this up with out retrain my men soon! how do you guys boost your economies as parthia?

[wubbs77]

you may be screwed. You have to either concentrate on a dramatic early economic buildup while maintaing just enough forces to defend yourself, or sack a city that will give you some real cash. If you can sack Antioch for instance, you can make 30-40,000 den. in a single turn. Even if you can't possibly hold it, sack it, exterminate the pop, destroy all the buildings, and tax the **** out of it till it rebels. you may inspire a 'loyalist revolt', but with no military buildings remaining, it'll be nothing but peasents you can crush at your leisure later. As it is, you may have overextended yourself to little benefit. (the downside here is of course that when you eventually conquer it, you won't be able to train advanced units in Antioch until you rebuild everything).

p.s. you think parthia's economy is bad, try a game as scythia. Their economy is nonexistant. (of course the selucids aren't right next door, but you have to deal with thrace, parthia, and black sea pirates.)

pps. Try and pull it out of the fire if you can. I've gone SEVERLEY into debt before and managed to recover by sacking a couple cities.

Also as an immediate expedient, fire merc's, and sell a couple non-essential buildings to get some quick cash.

[Dominus]

I immeditely take my starting half stack and assault Bactria. I nromally cna take it very quickly as i tripled unit movement values. With Bactria down i turn south into Iran. I take most of That and then begin sneidng large forces into Meospotamia to sieze Babylonia and Sleeucia

[Shaggy1973]

disbad your armies if your economy becomes cripled. Build back up and once you become more solvent.

[Toad_Licker]

well i had to stop my Parthian campaign because i kept getting a CTD at the end of 239BC. i started again and i have found a good strategy.

i start by spending all my money on horse archers, they are tough and can with stand numerous battles. i adopt a militaristic approch to building up the economy! i think of it as a rebellion against my Seluecid over lords.

i start my sending a half stack to the western rebel city with the port. my army sails there and in a typical troy like battle i disembark, fight and capture the city. i place my own government in the city and leave, heading south for the other rebel city. well by this time i found that the seluecids get annoyed with my expansion and start war on me. by now i should have at least two possibly three fairly decent sized forces. i take the nearest seluecid cities and end up dividing their empire up into two parts, seperated by Susa as i conquer the city and make it my capital in hopes of regaing the former Persian empire!

in my new campaign its 268BC, i have pushed through to Susa and divided their empire. i am making advances against them in the eastern territories near india and seem to be holding them off in the west although i only have one force there right now. all in all i have one full force (that has suffered casualties) in the Tigris region, one full force in the eastern territories pushing towards Susa and mopping up all Seluecid cities in its path, one semi full force in Alexander Herdat (sp) to act as a deturrent against a Bactrican betrayal, and to smaller forces that are slowly gaining strength and will be deployed where needed.

with all these forces and only 11 territories under my control my economy is barely above water but its only about 5 years into the campaign and so far i think im doing very well...so far the rebellion is on track!