NGL, I'm new to Rome 1, only recently got it, but knew to unlock factions via files, and... They're my only campaign right now, I own Russia and most of the Middle east, and my eastern infantry in my main army are so experienced that they're actually good... Oh and six horse archers
@@holysmokes6709 I was playing it just now, fought a Roman army, it was big and professional, mine had experience, two silver chevrons and a silver attack buff make horse archers(particularly the Persian ones I was using) Op, they melted Principes and Triarri ez
@@kairngodofbelligerence6163 take a single unit of horses ( as many single units as you have patience for and harass enemy units with it. Just retreat when you are out of ammo... Their forces will be devastated
@@joevenespineli6389 Cataphracts are easy to get and recruit. A half-stack Persian Cav + half-stack Catas with a War Elephant or two thrown in? Pure terror. Don't even need the Camel Catas. By the time you get them, you'll already own half the map!
@@nicsamazingpinballchannel7688 By late game maybe when you get a decent income and territory, that or I'm just real shit at the game if I can only afford to field such an army when I conquer the east.
@@hammer3721 Yep... just spam HA"s then PC's, build the cataphract tree, done. No need to mess with infantry whatsoever except for occasional mercs and town garrisons. Persian Cavalry in sufficient numbers can go toe-to-toe with any other horse archer unit. Even Armenia's cataphract HA's aren't as impervious as they seem, and they're slow as hell. Kind of a "worst of both worlds" unit neither optimal at skirmishing nor fighting. Even with a limited unit selection, Parthia is a lot of fun because no other HA faction has elite HA"s, cataphracts, and elephants in one single roster. Seleucia has catas and elephants, but no HA's and only average archers so it is forced to play a ground game. Armenia has the catas and HA"s but they are crappy ones - slow cataphract HA's instead of elephants... bad trade. Infantry is weak. Pontus has weaker catas (no AP) and no HA's. Good infantry though, if not Seleucia quality. Scythia has no catas, no elephants, weak infantry. It's all HA, all the time, with unfortunate Barbarian tech tree. Egypt could be strong with walls of spears and Pharaoh's Bowmen, but they won't do it. Easily crushed by HA spam. Nothing else left to oppose Parthia. :)
I saw the pajama man and thought this was a meme video. After watching and reading some of the comments I'm still not sure if it's a meme video or not.
Parthia made all their uniforms pinky-purple and then someone informed them they ran out of money. That's why they don't have any armor on their infantry.
You play Parthia when your Total War balls drop. Full stacks filled with horse archers. They gain XP like crazy because they dont die and kill a lot of shit from a distance and can just run over running enemies. You play them when you realize that: enemy units dont get shield defense benefit other than from the front and left and that the units that get surrounded rout really, really easily. Egypt/Seleucids/Pontus keep sending deathstacks that obliterate infantry with phalanx spears and spammy chariots. Horse archers hardcounter both.
Top-tier Persian Cavalry at that, which is easy to recruit anywhere. They fight well, decent armor, and have long distance arrows too. Can obliterate regular HA"s. Scythia has no defense against a PC + Cata stack... just charge with catas and rain down supporting fire behind them. All dead. Just keep the catas away from those head hunting maidens! I loved playing Parthia. They are HELLACIOUSLY strong... just ram down everything and shoot anyone who flees. Even max-tier Marian Rome has no chance. None.
When i play the Parthans i take only cavalry for the battles (Persan cavalry and cataprhacts) and one unit éléphants for the smals towns because the infantry is very bad il take just it for thé garnison in the city with archers, sorry for my english.
I remember playign a campaign where my armies were 100% composed of cataphracts and mounted archers. I bribed enemy generals all the way from Syria to Spain
They remind me Timurids from Medieval II. A distant power far in the East, with war elephants, heavy cavalry and perfect horse archers. They really can conquer the World!
Usually Its Egypt that wipes out the eastern factions but you do see some crazy shit sometimes from the AI. Like getting the option to become nuetral with the rebels faction. The Senate conquering things. That happened once. They took sardinia and all the places the Julii take. Or some how the Selucids survive the onslaught and beat Egypt parthia Armenia etc
@@jorgeserna8411 I did a scipii campaign a few weeks ago and they took gaul and spain Julii took germania. Somehow late late into the game. The spanish faction was still around and was able to take like half of spain from the britons lol
Parthia's civilization seems great, but the AI seldom thrives because AI only is autoresolve only and autoresolve favors heavy infantry... in other words... the Romans.
Really good video, BUT... Spain is more OP than Parthia! And I'll tell you why. At the beginning you start out with great generals and great garrisons in your settlements, you can use the whole garrison to unite the entire peninsula in less than 10 turns if you so choose! The Iberian peninsula has three mines in total (Osca, Carthago Nova and Asturica), and the few of the best units Scutaru-Naked Fanatics-Round&Long shield cavalry are cheap to maintain making Spain on par if not better than Parthia in terms of money! Many parts of Spain gives your armies an advantage when it comes to defence, it takes a few turns for an army to reach Asturica, armies have to go through mountains to get to Osca or Numantia, the only issue is the south and east coast where Carthage and the Romans can drop off their armies. But if you have a decent navy that should keep you relatively safe. Spain also has some of the best mercenaries in the game, you don't need to recruit any missile units while you have a steady supply of the far superior balaeric singers and before you can train Scutarii you can also hire Spanish mercenaries which are also cheap to maintain! As long as you avoid recruiting Town Militia-Iberian Infantry-Slingers-Skirmishers your armies should be good enough to defeat any enemy! Also, those poor units are really expensive to maintain so screw them! Another hidden op feature is the option to build 5 tiers of the temple of Epona, which will grant 5 xp points for your armies! So you have two OP options, to train Naked Fanatics-Bull warriors in your Barbaric minor cities or to train OP Long Shields and Scutarii in your captured huge cities! And... Bull warriors, nuff said. They are demi-gods!
This feels really weird seeing Rome getting destroyed by the Gauls in the begging and Greece absolutely going ham the map looked foreign to me to be honest
Could you make another AI only campaign for Medieval 2, where it’s only the Mongols and Timurids both spawning at turn 1? Or if you already made, just point me to it’s direction!
The one thing that is never talked about is how freaking hard it is initially. Tax isnt helpful, you get placed into debt too quickly. Aside from that, horse archer OP
Seriously, no joke. Parthia is one of the "monster factions"... probably second only to Seleucia all things considered. Monster factions: Seleucia, Parthia, Egypt, Germania You got Persian Cavalry which can fight well and shoot long range missiles. Cataphracts with massive charge, huge armor, and AP maces. War elephants... nuff said. They are the ONLY faction with this triple punch offense. Just hire the footsoldier mercs you need and shoot/smash everything in your way. It's ridiculous how easy it is to dominate any faction. Rome, even at top tier, CANNOT STOP an elite Parthian army. Urbans? Ha! Cataphract charge + elephants = all dead. Persian Cavalry mops up the fleeing remainder... and they won't get far. Parthia was one of the easiest campaigns of all. Just stomps the absolute shite out of everyone. Easy peasy.
PARTHIA IS OP!
Umm... you sure?
@@electriclegend6390 heretic
I mean any faction with horse archers are op so I guess ur correct
bullshit hahaha
And no cheats or mods involved XD
Eastern Infantry: What is my purpose?
Player: You push battering rams.
Eastern Infantry: Oh my god.
I'm crying, I'm laughing so hard at this.
Push seige towers too
Cannon/arrow fodder
Anyone hating on Parthia is salty they can't micromanage cavalry.
nah, they just played Scythia for the horse archers, and Armenia gets cataphracts and good/decent infantry
NGL, I'm new to Rome 1, only recently got it, but knew to unlock factions via files, and... They're my only campaign right now, I own Russia and most of the Middle east, and my eastern infantry in my main army are so experienced that they're actually good... Oh and six horse archers
Horse archers are so op in campaign I steamrolled everyone as scythia.
@@holysmokes6709 I was playing it just now, fought a Roman army, it was big and professional, mine had experience, two silver chevrons and a silver attack buff make horse archers(particularly the Persian ones I was using) Op, they melted Principes and Triarri ez
@@kairngodofbelligerence6163 take a single unit of horses ( as many single units as you have patience for and harass enemy units with it. Just retreat when you are out of ammo... Their forces will be devastated
Everybody gangsta until pink pajama men mount their horses
Something's not quite right with those Zoroastrian temple stats lol
50% public order boost lol
bruh
i actually improved all building stats in the game, because it is way to hard to maintain an empire, even if they have everything
Weird is that Parthians were mostly Mithraist
@@artinrahideh1229Yes, before the appearance of Zoroaster, but after that they turned to Zoroastrian religion
Weird. Parthia was quite passive during that AI only campaign.
They are giving other factions a false sense of security.
They’re usually pretty passive when I play. I don’t think they’ve ever declared war on me lol
Chad eastern infantry vs virgin legionaires
no one expects the pink pyjamas !
I long for a historical game to have a genuinely good desert faction.
*cough* egypt *cough*
@@OriginalDraguza Egypt isn’t good, they’re just annoying.
@@ghastlyghandi4301 you have to see lugotorix then
I kinda agree....I hate chariots, and Phalanx gets old after 40 hours of gameplay in the same campaign lol
rome 2 kush and saba
Parthian Horsearchers: Wipe out 80% of the units.
Cataphracts: Wipe out the last 20% of the units.
CHANGE MY MIND !
Mostly cause thats your only recruitable cav for most of the game, cataphracts are rare.
@@joevenespineli6389 Cataphracts are easy to get and recruit. A half-stack Persian Cav + half-stack Catas with a War Elephant or two thrown in? Pure terror.
Don't even need the Camel Catas. By the time you get them, you'll already own half the map!
@@nicsamazingpinballchannel7688 By late game maybe when you get a decent income and territory, that or I'm just real shit at the game if I can only afford to field such an army when I conquer the east.
@@joevenespineli6389 Maybe it is because of the lack in variety, but it is undeniable that horse archers are OP, especially in the Middle East Region.
@@hammer3721 Yep... just spam HA"s then PC's, build the cataphract tree, done. No need to mess with infantry whatsoever except for occasional mercs and town garrisons.
Persian Cavalry in sufficient numbers can go toe-to-toe with any other horse archer unit. Even Armenia's cataphract HA's aren't as impervious as they seem, and they're slow as hell. Kind of a "worst of both worlds" unit neither optimal at skirmishing nor fighting.
Even with a limited unit selection, Parthia is a lot of fun because no other HA faction has elite HA"s, cataphracts, and elephants in one single roster.
Seleucia has catas and elephants, but no HA's and only average archers so it is forced to play a ground game.
Armenia has the catas and HA"s but they are crappy ones - slow cataphract HA's instead of elephants... bad trade. Infantry is weak.
Pontus has weaker catas (no AP) and no HA's. Good infantry though, if not Seleucia quality.
Scythia has no catas, no elephants, weak infantry. It's all HA, all the time, with unfortunate Barbarian tech tree.
Egypt could be strong with walls of spears and Pharaoh's Bowmen, but they won't do it. Easily crushed by HA spam.
Nothing else left to oppose Parthia. :)
In that AI only I've never seen Rome do so poorly or Greece do so well.
I have never seen Parthians beat Egyptians
he changed some stats xD
Did you not see how parthia had units covering the entire map like carpet lmao. The power of changing some numbers around
I haven’t watched this video yet, but I had a strange feeling that those pajama men had something under their pjs.
I love that Thrace's final settlement was in central Europe.
Have you added another decimal to the pyjama guys stats?
;)
@@MelkorGG OFC you didn't, you added 5 decimals!
With all that giant unit stacks everywhere I suspect be reduced gold cost and upkeep to 1
I saw the pajama man and thought this was a meme video. After watching and reading some of the comments I'm still not sure if it's a meme video or not.
it is xD
So, if you sell pink pajamas, I too will be powerfull ?
Yes
Can you teach me this power?
Now I want some Parthian merch
You'll be a sandy boi, not too much of increase in power, but at least you can push rams now
Those eastern infantry had to have been maxed out to stand up to spatan hoplites. When I use them (w/o general) they run upon engagement.
Rome total war is easily moddable. In this case he probably changed the eastern spearmen stats to be godlike in the file export_descr_unit
did i just watch a unit of eastern infantry route two units of spartan hoplites on a bridge battle?
Yeah I'm super confused what mod this is? My pj bois def couldn't do that
@@flopus7 he used a boost to think they can win
@@flopus7 nah they just had level 1000 experience
That title alone made me burst out laughing.
Yo I forgot about that banger soundtrack. Dude was goin CRAZY with the flute.
His flute was on fire!
Anyone know the name of that song?
@@ethanwhitney6168 no, but look up Rome total war music. It’s definitely in the first game.
@@gfmhwhcefaijr7121 barbarian Victory
*OP = Over Pajama-ed*
Parthia made all their uniforms pinky-purple and then someone informed them they ran out of money. That's why they don't have any armor on their infantry.
They don’t need to though; they are so skilled with the wicker shield that armour is irrelevant.
How could you not even reference camel cataphracts the most op parthian unit of all
If you're new to TW playing as Parthia is hard as hell. If you're a veteran it's pretty much the strongest faction.
My greatest campaign victories were as Parthia.
0:24 XDDD Melkor, I love you!
Pontus really do be just chillin
You’re funny man
But I have business in arstotzka
I come back with right papers
Never stop posting.
How can you mention Parthia and not mention horse archers? Unacceptable
You play Parthia when your Total War balls drop. Full stacks filled with horse archers. They gain XP like crazy because they dont die and kill a lot of shit from a distance and can just run over running enemies. You play them when you realize that: enemy units dont get shield defense benefit other than from the front and left and that the units that get surrounded rout really, really easily. Egypt/Seleucids/Pontus keep sending deathstacks that obliterate infantry with phalanx spears and spammy chariots. Horse archers hardcounter both.
Top-tier Persian Cavalry at that, which is easy to recruit anywhere. They fight well, decent armor, and have long distance arrows too. Can obliterate regular HA"s. Scythia has no defense against a PC + Cata stack... just charge with catas and rain down supporting fire behind them. All dead. Just keep the catas away from those head hunting maidens!
I loved playing Parthia. They are HELLACIOUSLY strong... just ram down everything and shoot anyone who flees. Even max-tier Marian Rome has no chance. None.
I love how you cut away from that phalanx vs cataphract fight before the cataphracts routed
3:24 I wonder who won that battle, hmmmm
Those Parthian cavalry though... Sauce on a plate!
Parthia is normally always one of the first factions to get knocked out in my games
love this channel
So do I : )
The only normal part of that AI only campaign was the Seleucids dying instantly (I question whether they were are there sometimes)
spamming the purple dudes is the way, mordor style
I wanna see some more random AI wars!
The pink colour can deceive newcomers to Rome MP battles, making them assume Parthia is weak. 😁
Parthian Heavy Horse archers, And Armored Cataphracts are absoulute beast
You realise that you will need to do a parthia campaign soon because of your own videos, right?
Eastern infantry only challenge
Parthians should get immortals which were the heavy infantry of the persians that wielded bows spears and axes
5:26
*SILK ROAD INTENSIFIES*
Really nice demonstration. Did you remove the roman's protection from being conquered in some way?
Eastern infantry only challenge!
Parthia will always be "pink pajama boi faction" in my heart...
Ah yes, the world renowned Pinky-Purple men. All will be washed away by the unrelenting Ribena tide.
When i play the Parthans i take only cavalry for the battles (Persan cavalry and cataprhacts) and one unit éléphants for the smals towns because the infantry is very bad il take just it for thé garnison in the city with archers, sorry for my english.
what the fuck was that time-lapse, that shit was wild
having money as pathia and go for mecenaries
fact: u only know where he got his name from if u have read the sylmarils
I remember playign a campaign where my armies were 100% composed of cataphracts and mounted archers. I bribed enemy generals all the way from Syria to Spain
The Briton thing looked like the French empire
They remind me Timurids from Medieval II. A distant power far in the East, with war elephants, heavy cavalry and perfect horse archers. They really can conquer the World!
Usually Its Egypt that wipes out the eastern factions but you do see some crazy shit sometimes from the AI. Like getting the option to become nuetral with the rebels faction. The Senate conquering things. That happened once. They took sardinia and all the places the Julii take. Or some how the Selucids survive the onslaught and beat Egypt parthia Armenia etc
But most of the times Britains are the most OP. They always reach Italy within 15 turns. Annoying af.
@@jorgeserna8411 I did a scipii campaign a few weeks ago and they took gaul and spain Julii took germania. Somehow late late into the game. The spanish faction was still around and was able to take like half of spain from the britons lol
Pink PJ lads are SWEETER THAN WATER
It's all fun and games until your horse archers start engaging in friendly fire.
Purple bois go wild
OK, what kind of mod do you have on that made all Roman's and Egypt so passive because I would love to nerf them in some of my games
Parthia's civilization seems great, but the AI seldom thrives because AI only is autoresolve only and autoresolve favors heavy infantry... in other words... the Romans.
and chariots!
when I think of Parthia, I think of:
*Pajama* *Soldiers*
Pink pyjama bois supreme power in the east
Really good video, BUT... Spain is more OP than Parthia! And I'll tell you why.
At the beginning you start out with great generals and great garrisons in your settlements, you can use the whole garrison to unite the entire peninsula in less than 10 turns if you so choose!
The Iberian peninsula has three mines in total (Osca, Carthago Nova and Asturica), and the few of the best units Scutaru-Naked Fanatics-Round&Long shield cavalry are cheap to maintain making Spain on par if not better than Parthia in terms of money!
Many parts of Spain gives your armies an advantage when it comes to defence, it takes a few turns for an army to reach Asturica, armies have to go through mountains to get to Osca or Numantia, the only issue is the south and east coast where Carthage and the Romans can drop off their armies. But if you have a decent navy that should keep you relatively safe.
Spain also has some of the best mercenaries in the game, you don't need to recruit any missile units while you have a steady supply of the far superior balaeric singers and before you can train Scutarii you can also hire Spanish mercenaries which are also cheap to maintain!
As long as you avoid recruiting Town Militia-Iberian Infantry-Slingers-Skirmishers your armies should be good enough to defeat any enemy! Also, those poor units are really expensive to maintain so screw them!
Another hidden op feature is the option to build 5 tiers of the temple of Epona, which will grant 5 xp points for your armies! So you have two OP options, to train Naked Fanatics-Bull warriors in your Barbaric minor cities or to train OP Long Shields and Scutarii in your captured huge cities!
And... Bull warriors, nuff said. They are demi-gods!
How come Egypt didn't do it's usual conquer Seleucid and such?
I love the memes
Parthia: *drops* "I'm gay."
This feels really weird seeing Rome getting destroyed by the Gauls in the begging and Greece absolutely going ham the map looked foreign to me to be honest
is the song used during the ai time lapse from stronghold crusader?
Nope, both from the game Rome TW. 1st one, I cannot remember, 2nd is Barbarian Victory, I think.
Long love parthia❤
What is this kind of
...
AI campaign?
I really wanna do that in Rome I or Rome II
Candy men 🍭 minions! 😳
In my play throughs, Parthia is always destroyed early game by egypt
Could you make another AI only campaign for Medieval 2, where it’s only the Mongols and Timurids both spawning at turn 1? Or if you already made, just point me to it’s direction!
Parthia
Pink pyjama people
The one thing that is never talked about is how freaking hard it is initially.
Tax isnt helpful, you get placed into debt too quickly.
Aside from that, horse archer OP
Pog
*Pink Pajamas men*
Armenia has Cataphracts, but it also has Cataphract Archers.
Did anyone played with Parthias stats again? XD
Crassus be like
why the temple has 10 times more happiness bonus??
I wonder what if the Rome total map was larger
There are lots of mods, some good are described by melkor
So i have trouble installing The Bronze Age mod. Microsoft says they don’t support the mod or somthing. I made an account too.
Still nothing.
Parthia can be really good if you manually fight all battles. If you use auto resolve you will lose every battle
No, Melkor. Having a pink pajama is not ''op'', it's called ''swag''
50% public order with Zoroastra? How to did this? Please tell me.
Parthia deserves to be overpowered. They were just as powerful as Rome in real history, yet no one cares.
Parthia Infantry and HORSES cant out stand tiarri units or spear weilding units
@@michaelhenry6525 He is talking about "real life"
Do you realize you are creating a pejama men cult? Oh and when r u doing parthia campaign?
I'll add it to the list of cults I have already started XD
Parthia is too easy for a lets play :)
Someone buffed parthia as f
They’re so wealthy but at the same time they can only afford pajamas for their troops.
That's why they are rich.
These blanket bois are nothing compared to the Sassanid empire. Mighty Ardashir FTW.
Is your accent part of a bit you’re doing?
play Parthia next k
Seriously, no joke. Parthia is one of the "monster factions"... probably second only to Seleucia all things considered.
Monster factions: Seleucia, Parthia, Egypt, Germania
You got Persian Cavalry which can fight well and shoot long range missiles.
Cataphracts with massive charge, huge armor, and AP maces.
War elephants... nuff said.
They are the ONLY faction with this triple punch offense.
Just hire the footsoldier mercs you need and shoot/smash everything in your way. It's ridiculous how easy it is to dominate any faction.
Rome, even at top tier, CANNOT STOP an elite Parthian army. Urbans? Ha! Cataphract charge + elephants = all dead. Persian Cavalry mops up the fleeing remainder... and they won't get far.
Parthia was one of the easiest campaigns of all. Just stomps the absolute shite out of everyone. Easy peasy.
Cheap spearman spam is op. Cheap doesnt mean bad
Who are you and what have you done to Melkor? I have a half a mind to make a call to the police.
Remember that guy that was banging on the inside of his refrigerator , trying to get out?
Lol horse archers
Pink bois
Nerf Parthia