Parthia

[Emperor Mithdrates]

@#$% Egyptians.

I posted a long rant on another thread about how much I hate the @#$% Egyptians. Kill 1,000 and another 1,000 jump up, of better quality than the first bunch.

I here yuh buddy. those friggin Eygptions just wont leave me alone.

I stopped playig on medieval total war because they kept bugging me and got RTW but then as the selucides they just wouldnt leave me alone. They're not even a proper eygptions. Theyre the old cuts of the old greek empire.

wooo, go Greece.

[The Wandering Scholar]

Egypt must be stopped quicky. Forget about Armenia and Seleucids early on and just take out Egypt.

[Brave]

The Parthians begin with a historic Ruler (Arsaces I of Parthia) he is legitimacy to the throne was doubtful, he fought wars to keep the people on his side.

You begin with three settlements. I propose that you abandon the northen most town and use your ship to transport the horse archers and the family member to beat the Armenians to the capture of the rebel settlement located next to your Capital. The Parthians fought on horseback, you should do the same with Peasants as cheap, effective garrison for cities which are not on the front lines.

The Seleucids under Antiochus will be engaged in a bloody war with Egypt and should not be wanting a war on another front. This gives you time to go to war with Armenia who most certainly will want to capture a settlement and see your faction as the weaker option. Let them think that. Presuming that Armenia attack and you go on an offensive against them you should be able to incorporate their cities into your Parthian rule giving you five cities which are profitable and only Susa can possibly be under threat as the other four are located in the mountainious wastes.

Egypt under Ptolemy II can not be allowed to grow too powerful and if they are winning the war with the Seleucids (which is a high possibility) then you could consider an alliance with the Seleucids to attempt to balance the power in the east or sieze the chance to forge an empire at the Seleucid's expense.

More to come later.

[Brave]

If you wish to take the second option and openly declare war on Antiochus and divide his empire up between you and Egypt you could entice Pontus and even Greece into declaring war upon the Great Man and he shall fall quickly. This leaves the East and Asia Minor in a situation where all factions will think of themselves as the powerhouse and could see Egypt demand you be their protectorate, an easy chance to declare war on Egypt.

Brace yourself for a long hard slog, try your best to out produce them, block their ports, make them suffer. Even after smackus maximus they will be very rich and powerful and will field many stacks of high quality units. Just keep up the pressure and do not be fooled by 4-1 and 5-1 against ratio, your cavalry is better than the computer estimates.

Try not to drag yourself into a war with more than one faction. Make life easy for yourself. It is a near certainty that Pontus will eat up Asia Minor and not be satisfied by that. Tempt them to attack you by leaving weak stacks of high mobility Horse Archers for them to attack with their poor infantry then give them no mercy. Asia Minor is yours, well done.

By this time you should be in a commanding position, the Romans will most likely control most of Greece and you out produce them, you have more money than them, you have th secret to beating them. Your cavalry. Make sure you are properly prepared for the voyage to Greece. Aim to strike hard to the large stacks around Greece, leave them with no military then starve their cities out. Land with more armies than they could ever imagine possible, 5 or 6 full stacks led by able generals should do it.

By now the map should look something like this with the exception of Campus Sakae.



Continue your conquest of Greece until you control it. Up to the Danube is a reasonable conquest amount.

From here you can recruit more armies and more fleets to aim to land on Italy and use similar tactics as you did in Greece. Scicily could be needed for your 50.



The world is yours.