Scythia

**m4rt14n** · 12-12-2004, 15:14

Can Scythia make Onagers? I've found that taking Parthia early is a good thing for u. Just rush into their northeastern territory and lay a siege. Wait it out and they'll sally out. WHen they're gone, expect no other foray from Parthia into your territory. They are simply too weak and dirt poor to attack ur northern cities.

**tnt_73** · 12-13-2004, 07:58

Originally Posted by m4rt14n

Can Scythia make Onagers? I've found that taking Parthia early is a good thing for u. Just rush into their northeastern territory and lay a siege. Wait it out and they'll sally out. WHen they're gone, expect no other foray from Parthia into your territory. They are simply too weak and dirt poor to attack ur northern cities.

Yes, they can build onagers. But Parthia isn't in my mind to conquer. Too long distances.

Now i'am in front of Rom. I slaughtered every city to death on the way to Rom. Its a big money boost. But i like more to build up a good economy first before laying siege on an enemy. But Scythia is for rushing only. I have to play another "economy culture" like one of the roman factions after finishing this campaign :p.

**Funky Phantom** · 12-13-2004, 13:58

Originally Posted by tnt_73

Yes, they can build onagers. But Parthia isn't in my mind to conquer. Too long distances.

The beauty of it is that you don't really have to attack any Parthian city other than the one in the top-right corner of the map. After you take that, they don't seem very inclined to take it back and they tend to head South or West towards the Seleucids or Armenians for expansion anyway.

Even if they do come after you and try and take that city back, you'll see them coming a mile away (one of the blessings of Scythia's provinces being so vast!) and should be more than ready to repel the attack by the time it arrives.

After taking out that Parthian city, I found that I could focus my attention pretty much entirely on Western expansion and wars with the Greek factions.

**mystic brew** · 01-04-2005, 21:38

a few things i have to add in to the pile.

1. first thing i did was change my capital to Tanais... this is the most central, is the one that will most likely grow the fastest, prevents your starting cities from being too rebellious, and is least likely to be under threat anytime soon.

2. in both east and west the rivers provide natural barriers that you can exploit. a single unit of archers in a fort can certainly hold the enemy up as your cav redeploys
(this is especially applicable near campus scithii... when a thracian army can just walk in and siege straight off.)
if you so this there is no need to have a garrison in any of your cities of more than a couple of archers/axemen, and this is important since cash is hard to come by.

3. i siezed the northeast parthian city, then negotiated peace with everyone i could get at.
then i moved all of my horse archers towards the west, split into 2 armies of about 4 HA and 1 light cav (in the NE i develped head hunting maidens, and they are excellent light cav... better than barbarians by some way)
each with a general, and in a few short years of fighting the Dacians and Germanic peoples had gold chevron troops and 6*+ generals... which would come in handy when the massed forces of Parthia and Armenia came calling.

but when they did the forts at the fords meant these armies were bimbling around in a whole big area of naff all, and vulnerable to the fast, small cavalry raids... after a few turns of being smashed up like this, they saw sense, and paid through the nose for a ceasefire!

4. never leave your cavalry in towns if possible. your infantry can hold a few turns, and gold chevron cav is too valuable to lose in a siege of some pointless little germanic town...
use the starting forces carefully, and you hardly need to sell map information at all!

**Keldoron** · 01-25-2005, 22:04

I'm about to start my first Scythian campaign (just waiting to finish brutti campaign)

I decided to do some practising on custom games with the horse archers and noble archers against various armies.

Infantry is pretty easy to take down, but i'm still having a lot of trouble against cavalry. I've read various guides saying that ya gotta take of skirmish mode when approaching the red border and manually controll em. The problem is that when i issue them to start turning a bit and run, they stop for few seconds and then get munch by cavarly and then get routed most of the time. It seems that whenever i try manually change their running direction, they stop for an instant which allows pursuing cavaly to get close enough to knock some over.

I noticed that scythia have warhounds in custom games. They kinda work nicely in messing up cavalry lol

**The Hun** · 03-27-2005, 21:36

SPQR Mod makes battle more realistic, unit speed and kill speed is slower. There are better unit skins for such as Scythian HA and many more and no silly dogs and screeching women. When I did normal campaign I met screechers every German battle now I meet Berserkers who are much tougher. I am finding this campaign much more realistic and less silly things happening.

SPQR .. I cannot remember is Latin I think but a search would find I think.

Macedon are looking poor shape, they may want to beg for pity or their time will be over but again like earlier I have attacks now from another faction. The Gauls have attacked, they seem to be strong faction, I think 3rd of all. we shall see.

**Craterus** · 03-28-2005, 12:43

Screeching women and wardogs were probably used on the rare occasion but none at all is probably better than every battle.. thanks!
where can i find this mod?

SPQR means The Senate and Roman people
It is beleived that the Latin is Senatus Populusque Romanorum.
But others beleive it stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus.