Kingdoms of the Sand
This is the first episode of my first Attila campaign, as the Lakhmids. Hard campaign difficulty.
The complete up-to-date YouTube playlist is here.
The Lakhmids were a Christian desert faction and a Sassanid client state that was continually at war with the Ghassanids - another Christian faction further to the west, that was a Roman client state. They start in the campaign with a single settlement, Hirah. The aim of this campaign is to conquer and pacify all of Arabia, uniting it under a common religion. Time will tell if King Al Nu'man will seek greater glory, should he succeed in this quest.
King Numan was patrolling the border with the Ghassanids when the Ghassanid king challenged him into battle at the end of game turn 1.
Great to see an aggressive AI when playing on hard difficulty, a refreshing change from the more passive AI in the Emperor Edition of Rome II. It is also nice to see that the battles are a little longer than in Rome II, even with the lightly armoured combatants around this area of the world.