New campaign - Hayasdan or Getai? questons about units/gameplay

[Yarema]

Salve!

I'm thinking about starting a new campaign with either Hayasdan or Getai since both these factions have light horse archers and i'd like to try playing with this type of armies. However i noticed that both armenia and getai have hardly any cavalry at all possible to recruit on the beginning of the game. So here's what i want to know:

1. How long will it tak me to be ready to recruit good cavalry, especially light horse archers?
2. Any hints on what course of action to take with Hayasdan without being stabbed in the back by for example Seleucids? (Getai would be quite easy, i think i would leave some troops in the north east to protect the border from the sarmatians and take the rest on an all out attack on rich clever-clever greeks)

I play only on very hard/very hard. I ask how much time would i need to get good cavalry (especially light horse archers) since i'm confident that i'll be unstoppable once i get them. Playing Pahlava or Greek/Hellenistic factions besides Baktria is out of the question (i just don't like those guys... i dunno why )

[alexanderthegreater]

Salve!

I'm thinking about starting a new campaign with either Hayasdan or Getai since both these factions have light horse archers and i'd like to try playing with this type of armies. However i noticed that both armenia and getai have hardly any cavalry at all possible to recruit on the beginning of the game. So here's what i want to know:

1. How long will it tak me to be ready to recruit good cavalry, especially light horse archers?
2. Any hints on what course of action to take with Hayasdan without being stabbed in the back by for example Seleucids? (Getai would be quite easy, i think i would leave some troops in the north east to protect the border from the sarmatians and take the rest on an all out attack on rich clever-clever greeks)

I play only on very hard/very hard. I ask how much time would i need to get good cavalry (especially light horse archers) since i'm confident that i'll be unstoppable once i get them. Playing Pahlava or Greek/Hellenistic factions besides Baktria is out of the question (i just don't like those guys... i dunno why )

Won't take you long. Bout 1 or 2 upgrades to your MIC in your capital if your getai. Bit longer if ur hayasdan due to reforms i think. Im playing Getai and their cavalry is sweeet (tarabostes, ktistai) so i would recommend them. Biggest diffrence is difficulty- Getai is a pretty relaxed campaign, you can expand slowly and safely, but with hayasdan youll need to blitz. Did hayasdan on VH and conquered all of the seleucid territories but got into an infinite war with the ptollies and their endless stacks. (AI gets to much money, rly) even if I won every battle they recruited faster than i could kill. So i wouldnt recommend hayasdan on VH, getai would be nice though.

[Yossarian]

Quick tip: Try the recruitment viewer my friend.

1. As the Hai: In Mtskheta and Kotais you will be able to recruit Scythian Horse Archers at the very first level regional MIC.

2. Playing VH/VH as Hayasdan there is no way you can avoid being stabbed in the back by the AS early on. Hard Campaign is much more reasonable, but they will still come after you fairly soon, so be ready!

[ziegenpeter]

I'm on a Hai campaighn now and I have to admit that I like it in some way even more than the sweboz campaign. Those reforms (a: pan caucasian empire; b: persian/orontid empire) give me a real deep rpg experience.

[seienchin]

I'm on a Hai campaighn now and I have to admit that I like it in some way even more than the sweboz campaign. Those reforms (a: pan caucasian empire; b: persian/orontid empire) give me a real deep rpg experience.

You mean like: After having killed 5Million Soldiers of the AS, Hayasdan finally united the caucasian lands...

[ziegenpeter]

You mean like: After having killed 5Million Soldiers of the AS, Hayasdan finally united the caucasian lands...

Well at least I liberated 4,9 million caucasian people from the terrible seleukid rule!

[fleaza]

lol VH/VH hayasdan campaign? good luck with that.sauromatae from the north, arche seleukeia from all around you.