AKSUM IS HARD AND SASSANID EMPIRE IS SO OVERPOWERED

[sam.pidgeon]

has anyone played as aksum and any good tips on defeating the super rich and overpowered sassanid empire

[easytarget]

Diplomacy or sneak army passed them to the north to remove their puppets for starters. Need to cut off the $$$.

[Aeternum]

Or subjugate them and claim their puppets.

[Silent J]

Originally posted by Aeternum:

Or subjugate them and claim their puppets.

That is not a strategy, just a goal.

[Big Moustache]

You only start with a crap desert region. Pack your things and move to Jerusalem or Egypt for start. Settle in rich lands and start plotting from there. Once you got a couple rich regions declare independance.

[Big Moustache]

I tried keeping my starting region and took out ghassanids this time. Offcourse the horde took the gem region from under my nose and i was left with the moneysink regions only. Sacked them 2 times and they where dry.10 turns later it was game over. I chose to kick the insulting beetsj out in the event to trigger war with sassanids. I survived the first couple turns of stack spam but than the other satrapies finish me. That heroic defence against 5 sassanids stacks gave no accomplishment whatsoever and a utter waste of my time. On top of that no income and the stacks keep pouring in.A scripted unbalanced cheat bot is all this game is. I bet after spending 100s of hours you can memorize everything that will happen and find a way but really... Fck that! Turning horde turn 1 is my only solution still.

[PlayboyMoney]

It is really hard to be able to fend of Sassanid when they delcare war, as any of the new factions. I haven't been able to do it. I was doing AMAZING as Himyar, 15K+ gold a turn with multiple full stacks, and I still couldnt defeat them

[Chaoslink]

Make friends with east Rome and get them to fight them for you.

[Big Moustache]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Make friends with east Rome and get them to fight them for you.

In theory that could work. In practice ER has nothing to offer and your still fighting everything alone. On top of that a treaty with ER will net you even more enemies.

[Avtokrator]

It's not "overpowered", it's historically accurate. It was one of the richest and biggest empires of the known world in the 4th and 5th centuries. It's like comparing USA, China, Russia, UK or Germany to Uganda or Ethiopia.

[sam.pidgeon]

well my campaign is going much better i control whole of the persion empire lands all the puppedt states dead

i am allied to western rome and eastern rome i am the most powerful carving my empire into europe and trying to wipe out the tribes as i go along

[Cullen's Hound]

Take out any neighbor that is not allied with the Sassinids. Turtle up for a decade, build up your cities, tier up your armies.

[sam.pidgeon]

i nearly completed the campaign on minor victory onlyone problem i need ethopia region and nobatia clinent state to eastern rome and i dont want to declare war so i was thinking of trying to start unrest and cause a rebellion managed to on mazun and makran before i crushed them.

[Metal Izanagi]

Originally posted by 57th Roman Emperor:

It's not "overpowered", it's historically accurate. It was one of the richest and biggest empires of the known world in the 4th and 5th centuries. It's like comparing USA, China, Russia, UK or Germany to Uganda or Ethiopia.

This. The Sassanid Empire was dominant in the region for quite a long time. The decline of the Sassanid Empire is still quite a ways off at the start of Attila.

[kryogenic]

History is one point, however the sassanid empire was never able to be of any real threat to the Eastern Roman Empire as they had enough trouble with intrigue and keeping their often rebelious empire together.

From a gameplay perspective, The Sassanids basically frogstomp E-Rome to dust pretty easily especially as E-Rome has to deal with the huns and barbarians. Personally i think the Sassininds are unbalanced, the more wars you start (or the A.I) as long as the subject states don't rebel in turn 1-5, make the subjects love you, because of the enemy of my enemy thing.

There should be a way to engage in diplomacy with subject states to "encourage them to rebel" and the enemy of enemy bonus needs to be toned down alot. Also some units dont make sense, ok i play on VH-VH but even then pajama wearing pitchfork weilding grunts shoulld not be able to defeat heavily armored roman spearman and even legionaries, and camels in melee especially against spears should not be able to survive for insanely long periods. Historically too the Sassanids relied on large numbers of low morale low training unarmoured grunts and a core of highly trained well equiped elites.

Some balance to unit stats and subject states would make the sassanids more fun to play and play against.

[Avtokrator]

Originally posted by kryogenic:

History is one point, however the sassanid empire was never able to be of any real threat to the Eastern Roman Empire as they had enough trouble with intrigue and keeping their often rebelious empire together.

From a gameplay perspective, The Sassanids basically frogstomp E-Rome to dust pretty easily especially as E-Rome has to deal with the huns and barbarians. Personally i think the Sassininds are unbalanced, the more wars you start (or the A.I) as long as the subject states don't rebel in turn 1-5, make the subjects love you, because of the enemy of my enemy thing.

There should be a way to engage in diplomacy with subject states to "encourage them to rebel" and the enemy of enemy bonus needs to be toned down alot. Also some units dont make sense, ok i play on VH-VH but even then pajama wearing pitchfork weilding grunts shoulld not be able to defeat heavily armored roman spearman and even legionaries, and camels in melee especially against spears should not be able to survive for insanely long periods. Historically too the Sassanids relied on large numbers of low morale low training unarmoured grunts and a core of highly trained well equiped elites.

Some balance to unit stats and subject states would make the sassanids more fun to play and play against.

Well, Rome wasn't much of a threat to the Sassanids either. They had even larger problems than the Sassanid Empire and they certainly did not need a war with an equal. There were times of peace and war between them, but ultimately nothing really happened untill the rise of Islam when the Sassanid Empire fell due to being at war on every possible side. The Sassanid Empire, just as the Parthians before them, relied on their cavalry to finish the job. Heavy cavalry was always a Persian "specialty", so to speak. They were the only "nation" to actually breed warhorses, horses bred explicitly for war. They were doing that since the time of the Roman Republic and nobody else was doing it well after the Sassanids fell. You also can't talk about "accuracy" when changing difficulty. The game was balanced for "normal". That's how multiplayer works as well obviously. I dislike anything above that as i'm not into artificial difficulty. Battles vs AI are boring either way and artificial difficulty doesn't make it more fun for me.