Rauxsa-alanna Baexdzhyntae (Roxolani Lancers)

[Mad Guitar Murphy]

hi,

I have a question regarding Sarmatian lancers. I am playing a campaign as the Sarmatians, the year is 238 BC and Tanais is my capital. I have build the reform building that says it should allow for lancers to be trained however it doesn't. In short my question is: how can I train lancers?

Thanks for this excellent mod,

Mad Guitar Murphy

[Angadil]

hi,

I have a question regarding Sarmatian lancers. I am playing a campaign as the Sarmatians, the year is 238 BC and Tanais is my capital. I have build the reform building that says it should allow for lancers to be trained however it doesn't. In short my question is: how can I train lancers?

Thanks for this excellent mod,

Mad Guitar Murphy

I am afraid that the current recruitment for that unit is not working properly. We are aware of the problem and working to correct it.

[Mad Guitar Murphy]

ah ok, thank you
does the recruitment for the other heavy cavalry with armored horses work?

looks like I will be butchering greeks with light horse archers for a while longer

[Mad Guitar Murphy]

Does anyone know the answer to my last question? Someone who has started a Sarmatian campaign before perhaps? I'll pay you with gratitude, lots and lots of worthless gratitude.

[stalin]

Wow the name sounds like something you take at a rave party

[Steppe Merc]

Hmm. Well, a few might be recruitable, but I really think it's messed up. Any that would be would be found in the Courts or Herds line of buildnings. But like we said, it's really screwed up, and I think it would be better to wait for us to fix it... But I'm a bit OCD when it comes to stuff like this.

[Mad Guitar Murphy]

ok thanks mate,

I think I'll stop this campaign then, not kill the greeks anymore and stuf like that.
Or maybe it's time for my third parthian campaign... I just never get bored when surrounding plangites with horse archers:)

[antiochus epiphanes]

on a side note did yall call them rauxsa-alanna for a reason, cause if im not mistatken, thats the iranian name for roxolani
although, it does sound bettter then roxolanoi hehehe

[Steppe Merc]

Yeah, we used Ossentian to translate our Sarmatian unit names and plan to do so with the buildings.

[Avicenna]

Modern day Iranian? Wasn't the language at that time and place Aramaic?

[Steppe Merc]

Iranian in this usage is not a area of the world, its a language type and culture. It includes Persian, Parthian, Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, etc.

As to your question, many languages were spoken at the time in Iran, and even more so in the Persian Empire. After the Parthians took over, the court language was Pahlava, (or Pahlavi... I can't rember), or Middle Persian. There was also some Greek still spoken, and the language of the native people probably stayed the same. But the main language of Iran during this time was not Aramaic.

[edyzmedieval]

What was the language of the Scythians and Pahlavans?

[Avicenna]

When they took over it was Pahlavi.

I think when the Selucids controlled Iran it was still Aramaic though, so when Antiochus, who believed that the language was still Akkadian, made a proclamation in Akkadian, nobody understood him.

[Steppe Merc]

What was the language of the Scythians and Pahlavans?

Well the Scythians did not write. But they all spoke a form of Iranian language.

[Avicenna]

Strictly speaking, wouldn't Iranian language be quite inaccurate? Since Semitic languages didn't actually just develop in Persia and then leave, it was more a complete Western Asian language instead of just Persian.

[Steppe Merc]

No. Because more than just the Iranians in what is today Iran refered to themselves as Iranian, or Aryan. For example, Alan is likely a form of Aryan. And the term Aryan was often used to denote Iranian culture and people, but it is more commonly reffered to as Indo-Iranian.
The Iranians who settled in Iran gave it the name because that was the name of their people. But other people reffered to themselves as the same term, even though they lived elsewhere.

[Avicenna]

Sorry, I'm only familiar with the term Aryan.