Sassanid’s rule

**ZombieFriedNuts** · 07-23-2006, 18:05

I’m halfway though my first Sassanid campaign and my god there brilliant I’ve got more money that I know what to do with, the armored cavalry will destroy anything in their path and I have realized just how good horse archers are, I don’t use anything else.

**Kekvit Irae** · 07-23-2006, 18:48

Dont forget that their temples increase Law by a lot, as do a lot of their other buildings (academies, execution squares), which help reduce corruption in trade a lot.

**Mithras** · 07-24-2006, 00:23

The only real problem is having too much cash. When your stacking up the loot those negative traits come a piling in.

Overall a Sassasids are probably the easiest to play as and overall the second most powerful.

Although I really would like to fight someone apart from the romans when I'm playing them.

**Avicenna** · 07-24-2006, 04:33

So, ZFM... do you just sit out the sieges?

**Kekvit Irae** · 07-24-2006, 04:44

The cash flow problem is fixed by bribing. A lot.

**ZombieFriedNuts** · 07-24-2006, 19:12

I don’t sit out in sieges I love sieges I put some people on the walls to try open the gates and batter the walls down and then charge with the armored cavalry.

**gardibolt** · 07-27-2006, 20:22

Makes sense; when I played ERE, the Sassanids were the only faction that gave me a hard time (and for a while there, I thought I might lose to them). If the AI version kicks butt like that, I can't imagine how easy they'd be to play.

**Cras** · 07-28-2006, 15:06

I used to make these all cavelry armies that would pave the way for my normal armies (with ground troops), the would become even more invinsable with their silver chevrons.

I did however have problem with the cities, I can remember once being truly killed on the walls and trying to get in wityh my horses. So I wait it out for a while and when they get weaker I take the cities.