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[Silver Rusher]

Hi,

I come here to discuss the completely random, though fun, issue of GAULS vs PARTHIANS.

Basically what happens is; The Gauls and the Parthians have both managed to get very far through the campaign, conquering each half of the world. The Gauls get north-west africa (mauretania to byzacium, plus Gaeutulia), The Parthians get the East plus the rest of Africa. However, if you draw I line from Locus Gothi to Aetolia (Parthia gets Sparta, Corinth and Attica, plus Crete and Macedonia just to be fair), and split the map in half (still noting the exceptions I explained earlier) you get the division of territories.

Now then; each faction has developed economically, militarily and otherwise to the maximum extent possible using the lands THEY HELD, and also the best strategies they could have previously used. I think this is the fairest way of doing it. Note where their armies would logically be due to previous strategy (for example, Parthia would have quite a few troops in Egypt because as we all know Egypt is hard to deal with)

The wars begins with Parthia attacking the south of the province of Africa by boat. Discuss what would happen from there.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Before saying what I would think would happen I would like to just state that though Egypt has a very well balanced army if you knock them down in the very beginning before they have time to develop they become very vulnerable. As the Seluecids I took all of the provinces up to Jerusalem as quickly as I could, probably all 2-3 cities in about 10 turns or less and the Egyptians required few troops and I was unable to finish them off for a while because Pontus, Parthia and Armenia were assaulting my back door.



I think the Parthians would be able to win out in the end, because the barbarians cannot build large cities and have weak cavalry, except for Germany. Gaul is just not a powerhouse of a faction. I think if the Gauls did get that far they would be able to hold a few cities for quite a long time due to superior heavy infantry but the Parthians would own all set piece battles. Just a matter of time.