Sassanids (BI faction)

[Revenant69]

@Revenant69
Excellent posts. Learnt something there. Thank you.

I will look out for that training effect on recruitment.

Thanks Severous, I tried my best, although, as it turnes out, the information in my previous post is not entirely accurate. I took the information for the table with ancillaries from an old Excel file. As I later found out, this file was for RTW 1.2 or 1.3. To correct this mistake, I actually looked through the export_descr_ancillaries.txt file in BI/Data folder and RTW/Data folder and incorporated the changes.

The full and final description can be found here: Military discounts Ancillaries

Hope you find it even more useful.

[Severous]

This information is not restricted to this faction. It deserves a place in the research part of this forum.

See if you can find a suitable thread here..or get a new thread going:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=88

[Revenant69]

This information is not restricted to this faction. It deserves a place in the research part of this forum.

See if you can find a suitable thread here..or get a new thread going:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=88

You're right Severous, I'll request to open an appropriate thread in Ludus Magna.
Cheers.

[Flavius Merobaudes]

If you do that, it would be good to include other ancillaries' adding boni such as the army movement bonus (drillmaster +25%, geographer +15%, quartermaster +15%/ 55% total) or those adding command stars (quite a lot).

Imagine the impact of the movement bonus for factions like the Sassanids that can rely on all-cavalry armies.

When playing as the WRE, I accumulated some command ancillaries and shared them around between my new generals, so they all had the nightfighter trait which helped me a lot against hordes.

Good work until now but it's not complete yet.

[Hound of Ulster]

Ah, the Sassinsids...my favorite faction in any total war game.

I found out real quick that the Sassinsid infantry (except Sughdians) suck, that you make more money with them with low taxes and small garrisons, and that the Eastern Empire can't stand up to all cav armies.

My best force with Sassinsids was...

6x ClibImmortals
8x horse archers
2x clibnarii (sometimes)
4x cataphracts
+ some Elephants sometimes

You hit the flanks with the horse archers, the center with ClibImmortals and wait with the Cataphracts for any weak spots in the line. You then punch into those weak spots with both the Immortals and the Cataphracts.

I conquered all of Asia minor, the Levant and Egypt (albeit on easy/medium) with only two small cav armies. I would have knocked the Eastern Empire out and won the campaign by about 460 A.D if I hadn't decieded to drop vanilla RTW for various mods.

[samiosumo]

although it maqy be frowned upon by many of the more "hardcore" members i find that if you want Immortals and elephants and sugdians quickly i use the add money and finish queue cheats on turn one. First prees th "¬" buuton. Then type "add_money 200000" press enter. then press shift up and press enter. repeat until you have 5 million or whatever (trust me, you'll need it) then go on to one of your cities and fill the queue. then type "process_cq [settlement name, e.g. Hatra]" then press enter. next press shift up nad press enter. repeat until all buildings for that settlement are built. then do the sae for all settlements.

when you take a settlement you should destroy everything there. then build every thing up. even if you take a big christian settlement (90% or more) you can dewstroy everything then build all your zorestrian buildings. The conversion of the population to your religion should take a couple of turns.

*****the "process_cq" cheat dosen't work with settlements with two names*****

[Hound of Ulster]

All I usually did was destroy all of the Christian buildings and then built my Zorastranian stuff to replace. That and low taxes usually kept Asia Minor and the Levant in line.