Where to expand with Saka?

[strategos roma]

What is TAB SPAM?

TAB is the acronym for the elite Seleucid Thorakitai Agematou Basilikoi which are covered from head to foot in mail armour. You can imagine the sheer futility of shooting at them with your HAs...
I've also wiped out Parthia and am now seiging Baktra. The AS isn;t too strong...so far Susa, Ekbatana and Persepolis are still only lightly held and no spamming of elites or indeed any sort of troops anywhere, so I think that after overunning what remains of their far east provinces I can take a break and really consolidate my gains and maybe invade India and those slave villages in the middle of nowhere.

[xzGAB]

If they are so heavy they should tire fast. Can't we use this against them?

[Ca Putt]

yeah tho even tired tin cans need an opener to get in - and in this case have spears so will take some of your lancers with them should you decide to charge them with cavalry. So unless you have slingers(or AP javelins in their back) you'll suffer mentionable casualties.

they have whooping great 19 as armor value, that (by far) the highest value for all infantry units(some elite units have 14 but the mainstray is far below that), which is actually even more than your bodyguards (at least that's what the unit list says, gotta check that later on) and is only surpassed by cataphracts and elite cataphracts with values between 20 and 30

[Rahl]

The Vasci man-tanks (Dosidataskeli) are better (23 armour, 18 moral instead of 16) but disabled since 1.2 because the AI would spam them and steamroll through europe.

[Ca Putt]

And they were actually only ONE unit of elite guards of one Tribes leader. I've intentionally left them and their Irish brethen out of my post because of that

[CashMunny]

U meen yn rill lyfe oar yn da gaem cus da gaem daey liek a trupe u cen reakrut too dew sum batles yn stuf ya naw meen

[xzGAB]

U meen yn rill lyfe oar yn da gaem cus da gaem daey liek a trupe u cen reakrut too dew sum batles yn stuf ya naw meen

What the hell is this language?

[CashMunny]

What the hell is this language?

You mean in real life or in the game because the game they like a troop you can recruit to do some battles and stuff you know what I mean?
Sometimes my half retarded brother Luey from down the street likes to steal my internets, it's not his fault his teachers didn't understand how to tell him math and his adopted uncle Harvey beat him until he was black and yellow.

[stratigos vasilios]

You mean in real life or in the game because the game they like a troop you can recruit to do some battles and stuff you know what I mean?
Sometimes my half retarded brother Luey from down the street likes to steal my internets, it's not his fault his teachers didn't understand how to tell him math and his adopted uncle Harvey beat him until he was black and yellow.

I sincerely hope your joking. As a clinician, using the R word in practice would land me in huge trouble.

[CashMunny]

I sincerely hope your joking. As a clinician, using the R word in practice would land me in huge trouble.

My half retarded brother Luey is half retarded, I don't understand what you mean. He was diagnosed with HR-ism by his mom Placid Bill Hickok, who happens to be the fastest shot in the east.

[stratigos vasilios]

My half retarded brother Luey is half retarded, I don't understand what you mean. He was diagnosed with HR-ism by his mom Placid Bill Hickok, who happens to be the fastest shot in the east.

We're told to use more appropriate terms such as intellectual disability, people with impaired cognitive funtion or mental retardation (note the word mental before retardation). There seems to be an associated stigma with the word 'retard' and it is a broad term which can be used incorrectly to encompass a range of intellectual disabilities. As far as I am aware, there is no classification as 'half retarded' in any form/type of intellectual disability.

Now I think we should get back to topic.

[Atraphoenix]

Haven't played a nomadic faction in a long time, but isn't there a province or two with the nomad resource around Getai's starting lands? Might make Greece the best bet, since you could conquer north and be able to recruit more of Saka's non elite cavalry.

On the other hand, I migrated to Carthage as the Sauromatae and had a lot of fun. Used Numidian cavalry as my fodder to back up the elite cavalry I could build by settling...

I had tried Saba!
DRAGONS ON ARABIA LOL!!


Mate, never mess with your nomad kins, the rest world no match for you if you know how to micromanage battles with nomads....

[CashMunny]

As far as I am aware, there is no classification as 'half retarded' in any form/type of intellectual disability.

Ok well tell that to poor Luey. He can't do any maths and his brain is all stupid inside it like it was a scrambled egg inside a parfait made from the tears of grown men and the sweat of elderly babies.
But he can do pianos and he's the best at Pac-Man everyone gives him all their dollars to do pianos.

[Ca Putt]

sound like He's sort of an autist...

oh but back to topic... eh...

Mate, never mess with your nomad kins, the rest world no match for you if you know how to micromanage battles with nomads....

Very true Fighting horse Archers is no fun!! well unlessyou've got moreArmored horse archers than he's got unormal ones :D.

[xzGAB]

Too bad about your brother, but you should not talk like this about him, it is not a funny thing to have autism. I sense some bullying. Was he diagnosed by a doctor?

[stratigos vasilios]

Ok well tell that to poor Luey. He can't do any maths and his brain is all stupid inside it like it was a scrambled egg inside a parfait made from the tears of grown men and the sweat of elderly babies.
But he can do pianos and he's the best at Pac-Man everyone gives him all their dollars to do pianos.

I wouldn't do that. It's not in my scope of practice nor would it be any practitioners to do online in a forum. Describing his brain, as you did, is an inappropriate way to recognise and support his condition. Please show some courtesy to those with an intellectual disability.

Definately now back to topic.

I've had some unsuccessful runs as Saka before. Common agreement is to get into India asap? Or Baktria first?

[Ludens]

Definately now back to topic.

[Atraphoenix]

I've had some unsuccessful runs as Saka before. Common agreement is to get into India asap? Or Baktria first?

Why not AS? No matter Pahlavs or Sakas I target them at the first sight... India is torture you lack money to hire peltastai to kill the beasts and baktria will give you just a city and lots of casulties....

Even you can try far south like me Arabia
You are nomad you have no permenant residence .... the world is not enough....

[CashMunny]

That is a weird strategy. AS has fairly poor eastern territories, and Baktria/India are super rich. And I never have trouble with elephants as the Saka, that's what Dahae Skirmisher Cavalry is for. Kill around 10 of the elephants and the rest start to flip out and kill their own guys half the time anyways, so they're not much of a challenge. Indian guild warriors? Die like flies against HAs. Indian Longbowmen? Charge those buggers with your bodyguard straightaway, before they get a chance to let loose a volley from those death machines and you're fine. And the Baktrians use the same troops as the AS basically, so why would you lose many men? I don't understand. But hey, if it works for you, whatever.