The Parthian Shot: A Pahlava AAR

[Horst Nordfink]

My promised Pahlava AAR is imminent! The ground work has been laid and I am currently fine tuning the intro.

[White_eyes:D]

hmmm.....good I want to see a Pahlava AAR

[d'Arthez]

Want to see what happens.

[Horst Nordfink]

This AAR is played as VH/M and with MAA's City Mod and Jarado's Force Diplomacy Mod. The Pahlava MIC has not been added because it is not comatable with the City Mod.

The house rules for this AAR are:-

• Never attack a neutral faction without provocation. A reason must also be had to take an Eleutheroi settlement.
  
• Reasonable expansion must be maintained. Follow the factions victory conditions.
  
• The crown of Pahlava passes to the eldest son on the death of the King. If the King dies without a male heir the throne passes to the nearest eligable direct male heir of the original King. If no direct male heir of the orignal King, the highest birthed indirect heir is King. (I hope that makes sense!)
  
• Allies are immune from aggresion (unless it's plainly obvious they're up to no good).
  
• Campaigning in winter is prohibited, unless attacked.
  
• A campaigning army must winter in a fort if possible.
  
• Campaigning armies must be lead by Family Members.
  
• Force Diplomacy must not be taken advantage of! A faction with one settlement cannot make a faction of 20-30 a client kingdom!
  
• Toggle_fow is the only "cheat" allowed, and only out of curiosity!
  
• Expansion should only be possible when there is a spare Family Member to lead the Campaign. There should always be a Family Member as a governor.

I will try to add more as/if I think of any! Suggestions welcome!

[kambiz]

Pahlava player usually need to Strike fast on one of his(her) neighboring factions (Mostely Selukids or bakterians). So I suggest you to not use these rules untill you're empire reach a stable situation.

As a fan of Pahlavian ,am looking forward to your AAR

Good luck !

[d'Arthez]

Is it not possible to copy the relevant code from the Pahlava bug fix into the altered file for the City Mod? that way you can have both.

[Horst Nordfink]

I have no idea! I have learned my lesson about playing with things I don't understand, so I'm not prepared to fiddle! If someone was kind enough to combine the Mods and the fix then I would be more than happy to install it.

At the minute, my game is running smoothly and I'm content to stay as I am.

[d'Arthez]

As I don't have the code for the City Mod, I am not 100% certain. But it should be possible. PM MAA and you will know. But until you are actually considering upgrading to a MIC of lvl 5 it should not be an issue anyway.

[d'Arthez]

I am surpried noone commented since your last update. These Greek wars should prove to be extremely interesting (if you don't get destroyed by a Baktro-AS allince)

[Horst Nordfink]

I reckon it's only a matter of time really. I have at least 3 or 4 massive battles per turn. I really can't keep up this kind of war for much longer. I wouldn't be suprised if this AAR went belly up sooner rather than later.

It's a shame because I was really enjoying it.

[Hooahguy]

yay Baktria!
jk. well, kinda.....
still, this is going to be interesting......
nice job!

[Horst Nordfink]

Yes, those Greek bastards have really put a spanner in the works.

[gamegeek2]

As the Saka Rauka, I'm finding it really easy to kick Baktria in the balls - it's like turn 6 or so and I have 2 of their towns; they start out with enough for a halfstack or so but are fairly poorly garrisoned in the north; only a bunch of crappy Persians (who are cost-efficient, but are murdered by my shiny nobles :)) and Pantodapoi are there, along with any family members in the area. The Pahlava always seem to take Chach pretty quickly, as I can't afford to garrison it well, so I blitz the Blue and cross my fingers...