Variations on Romano-Parthian Slaughter

Go here, now: www.europabarbarorum.com, see a high quality version here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3LHX3DJ9
Finally, 22 minute long director's cut available here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NTF4V0AU

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• games
• strategy
• history
• romans
• parthians
• europa
• barbarorum
• rome
• total
• war

[daryush55]

The Parthian general in that video could probably have won with a lot fewer casualties. What I tend to do is charge and then withdraw within a few seconds of my cav engaging. There's another cav nearby, which begins charging (usually from another angle) as soon as the previous group have left. And only ever engage in melee once I'm out of arrows. Unless I have to charge some archers or something.

Anyways, good video! :)

[stupacshakur]

True dat, this video was kinda quick and dirty though, thus Pahlava was controlled by the AI and did lots of stupid stuff.

[TacTeppo]

@daryush55 actually that tactic was reasonable. he did the same thing you described roughly. missiles would have been ineffective against the testudos so he opened them with a light cav charge, withdrew and engaged with heavy cavalry. waiting would have just been a waste of arrows..

[persiandudeee]

Go Parthian Persians!

[a09tma]

Nice Armenian music....it is isn't it?

[Salamanderx1]

@Legolasas26 That's why you make logistics columns. 1-2 of each unit type to replace fallen men. You can shift around men by dragging one unit card over another. Then you can send the logistics column back for retraining. For larger distances use more columns.

Additionally your field armies shouldn't sit in cities after conquering, use cheap units (skirmishers) to garrison cities. If your logistics columns arrive before they are needed have them sit in cities at the front.

[mainkilla]

@Legolasas26 Those are reformed legionaries.

[Legolasas26]

Anyone else hate the fact that when youre Roman legions (the ones from Central Italy , The legionares) always have to be shipped back to Italy for re-training? :(

I was fighting Lusotananians and the rebels over there, after a few succesfull battles i had to ship my Legions back to Rome for re-training, and while they were away the Lusotanians took away 5 years worth of conquest settlements. Same happened in Greece when i had to ship my troops for re-training. Sucks...

[ilghazi]

wait, in this mod, were the persians speaking sassanian persian??

if so, i am extremely happy and will get this mod.

[papagamias]

Romans despite having multiple times the manpower of Parthians/Persians could never do anything much more than border wars - Persians were getting much deaper. Finally, it was Roman successors, the Byzantines under Heraclius that dealt the big blow, albeit at a time the Byzantine army was a Greek-Armenian thingie largely employing Persian tactics (cataphracts, mounted archers etc.).

A pity how these wonderful Empires wore themselves that much - fortunately Byzantium continued for much longer.

[papagamias]

I am Greek and I am an true admirer of all the Persian successive cultures - alongside with Greeks, they were the first true modern cultures according to me without belittling the amazing Chinese and Indians of course.

Do not worry about Western Europeans, they love their Romans! Hehe!

No. Romans casually beat the Parthians but usually they were losing at a rate of at least 40%-60%. Plus, Roman loses were always catastrophic while Parthian loses as DJKAYZEE correctly said, were more setbacks.