Parthia

[Shadar]

Heh. i tried the relocating tactic for Parthia. So far has backfired totally on me. I had rushed Seleucia, then rushed west, taking Palmyra, Damascus and Antioch, leaving them smouldering wreckages. Then i built a navy, and island hopped my sole army across to Salamis, to Rhodes then to Kydonia. THEN, i island hopped my way to Spain, since it seems such a good idea to get as far away as possible from those Egyptians.

I swear those Egyptians are annoying... the only way i've been able to defeat them is to concentrate ALL my 10-16 units of horse archers into one position and then harass them like crazy from one side - eventually kills the chariots and the elephants off (stupid multi-hp stats). Unfortunately, on my push across the west, Egypt just took city after city, since i wasn't leaving anything more than a single unit to defend it. I had to rush Salamis as soon as i realised i was about to lose Antioch from a massive full stack Egyptian army with a LOT of chariots in it. For an army built for mobility, i.e. no infantry, that was really bad news.I'm just establishing myself in Spain right now. and see how well i do compared to my other short game with Parthia.

With my other game, i had taken provinces all the way to Jerusalem (leaving the Armenian homelands and bordering the Seleucids in Hatra). Having just soundly defeated the 2nd last Egyptian full stack army, i'm about to push south and take Egypt. I did that in exactly the same time i took to get my army eventually TO spain (about 80 turns or so. Yes, i'm slow) - and my income, army and tech was in much better shape too. But i guess the moving way was a lot more interesting.


Edit: In less than 20 more turns, Egypt has now taken over the entire southeast corner of the map and should be about to start pushing into Asia Minor soon. And amazingly enough Gaul did very well and had even pushed the Julii into one city - but then within a dozen or so turns Britain had taken all their homelands and theres only one Gallic province left. Funny how fortunes change at the drop of a hat.