Quote Originally Posted by Marcus Ulpius View Post
I'm currently at 265 BC with my Pahlava campaign. I just managed to capture Persepolis and several towns with mines, so money is slowly pouring in. I cut the AS in half, but they are starting to send better troops - I already had to destroy a couple of Pezhetairoi and I see some Kleruchoi on the way. I still can't afford to recruit a large army, so I rely on cheap HA's FM's and cheapest mercs. But I think that Saka are probably planning to attack me. I hope it won't happen as I already have AS to worry about. What makes the situation worse is that AS seem to be winning against the Ptolies :(

I also think there's something about reforms I don't understand. In one of my cities, I've built migration->pastoralism->settled community->reformed pastoralism->reformed settled community. However I still don't see and of the "normal" MIC's that should appear according to "reformed settled community" description.

Yes, in my campaign it happen too: while i was smashing AS, they just moved into Asia Minor (Pontos=) and did very well against Ptolies: they even manage to made naval invasion near Alexandreia!

And yes, concerning that complex Pahlavan building tree:

1) be sure you have large nomad market in settlement you want to reform (some people say that small market is enough: i really cant remember how it was in my game, but large market is 100% ok)

2) Before you build reformed pastoralism, you GOT to have Warlords horse herds build before that (w.h.h. you can build when you build elite horse herds) if you mess up this order, no reforms will happen.

Here is order to build:

1) military occupation
2) migration
3) pastoralism
4) (large?) nomad market
5) settled community
6) warlords horse herds (requires elite horse herds)
7) reformed pastoralism- do not build this before warlords horse herds!
8) adv. settlement
9) settled aristocracy
10) and, finally: ref. parthian government


And one more thing: when you build settled aristocracy in any town: you will have to build brand new mics in order to get units: that means that even your h/a's would not be available even if you have them before the settled aristocracy ()

And, finally: you must have at least large town to have reforms


I wish you luck