Parthia

[GodsPetMonkey]

I could not also find them anywhere or have you had it edit?

You have to edit some files to get them in game, export_descr_unit.txt and export_descr_buildings.txt to be precise.

Check my signature for a link to my unit and building editors. I should make a guide to demonstrate how its done really, its quite popular for the non-modders to just want to allow units to be trained by more factions, and its a dead simple process too.

[m4rt14n]

How in the blue hell is Parthia supposed to counter those freaky Elephants?? They have absolutely no good infantry (easterners would just die on contact), no javelin throwers (besides ur general). Other than using ur own elephants against them, or running around them trying to confuse them, does anyone have any tips?

[R'as al Ghul]

You need to read the How to use Horse Archers-Thread.
In this thread we collected all our knowledge about Parthias prime unit. Elephants are of course difficult to fight. Your only chance is to seperate them from the main body of the army. Sometimes you can make them chase one unit of your HA round around the battlefield until they're tired and break. Slingers or Peltasts work also to lure them away. Concentrated fire from four sides is a thing that makes Elephants nervous pretty fast, same with chariots.
When they run amok, they can be killed by Cav charging in their rear. Be careful, though.
Hope this helps.

R'as

[Raziaar]

Heh, you guys won't believe what I did. I spend a few turns of the game building up a small force, using what I had to conquer some surrounding territories, especially Babylon. This is done to first get out of debt and accumulate some excess wealth, and maintain a slightly larger army.

I then, consolidated all of my armies save for a couple peasants/eastern infantry, and moved them west from Babylon to the coast, conquering cities as I went by making sure I had a infantry type unit or two to use battering rams to make access into the city, killing everybody and demolishing every available structure within to not only set my enemies back, but give me a large surplus cash store for the voyage ahead. Once I reached the shore, I built a single boat, and decided to let luck be my guide, on the very perilous journey from the Middle East, to spain where I landed and started making a home for myself.

All while I was sailing, I was demolishing the previous buildings in my home provinces, and they eventually succumed to rebels and my Armenian neighbors who were previously allies. This actually gave the Armenians a GREAT headstart it seemed, that they never used to get before, and hopefully they are one of the enemies I might have to face in the end game. It also let me avoid confrontations with egypt, and focus my energies on demolishing the Spanish, and barbarians of the west who were unaccustomed to my horse archers. Well, actually the only barbarian enemy I made, who seemed very bitter towards me afterwards were the Britons, and i've been in a bitter feud with them.

My campaign is on Very hard for campiang, and moderate for battles, because I hated being so penalized and the enemies so bonused, as it was unrealistic. But, so far its proving to be a bit 'too' easy. I'm demolishing several thousand man armies and only losing a few men, usually to friendly fire, and my horse archers are gaining several golden chevrons.

Its definately different, and it was very difficult to get to Spain to forge a new home for myself, but its proving to be very successful. Even on very hard campaign, spain is a VERY profitable region that is able to support large armies of horsemen, as long as you keep the intial number of enemies down.

Anybody else tried something like this?

[King Azzole]

I did the same thing playing as Numidia. Except I sold all my previous citys to Carthage so they could withstand the Scipii. This gave me enough cash to conquer spain ( I exchanged one of my citys and some map information for corduba with carthage to avoid war) and I eventually managed to conquer all spain AND maintain a solid alliance with Carthage, we even have military access to eachothers lands. Lots of fun to "relocate" a faction.

[Raziaar]

Doing what I did, is giving Armenia a fighting chance! I'm so happy at how far they've come. My old watchtowers in the area let me see quite a bit, but I decided to turn off fog of war for a second with a cheat just to see how vast the armenian empire was so far, and i'm quite happy about it. Looks like they're keeping egypt and Seleucia etc at bay. Excellent! Maybe they'll be one of the end game nations i'll have to fight.

So far, from the looks of it, there's quite a few equally powerful nations in my game so far. But I already knew most of this as 3/4th of the map was revealed to me using numerous map information bribes. Unfortunately, they stopped selling it to me after a while. Heh.

Oh yeah. I'm Parthia, the purple countries in the west. Opposite side of the map from my starting area =) Armenia are the teal looking guys.

[Doug-Thompson]

Well, that's something new.

All in all, I'd rather take Egypt because of my blind, searing hatred of the @#$% Eqyptians.

However, I have to admit that the poor barbarian factions don't really stand a chance against well-managed HA, not if you hit them hard before they can obtain Chosen Archer Warbands.

For sheer fun, though, nothing beats using a bunch of elephants against barbarians. The beasts are a mobile siege train. They're excellent missile archers, too.