The Parthians were Dahae people and they are Scythians, until Aršak or Arsaces leader of the Parni unite the Dahae Clans from Suren, Karen, Espahbad, Naudar, and other Parthian noble families into the Parthian Confederacy. Parthians or Dahae live below the Amu-Darya River and around the grasslands of the Karakum or modern day Turkmenistan. As Parthia annexed Persia and Mesopotamia, Parthians began to settle in Iran and Mesopotamia but they have several Parthian Subkingdoms exist in Parthian Empire from Persis, Atropatene, Adiabene, Elymais, Characene, Suren(Indo-Parthian) and Armenia (although Armenia wasn't but eventually an Arsacid Dynasty emerged from Armenia). Parthians remained a powerful force during Abbassid Revolution, they join the Arabs, Persians and Turks to overthrow the Umayyad Caliphate and some Parthian noble families still manage to create several quasi Sassanid Dynasty during Islamic Caliphate until early Abbassid Caliphate.
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Jerry'sGoldfish
Emperor
ok, nice lesson of history but you missed the point with the cataphracts. cataphracts were not brought into existence for close combat. they can be easy teared down by infantry formation or hunted by heavy javelin or angon throwers (roman tactics). their main and very possible unique role was to HUNT ENEMY HORSE ARCHERS, cause these would kill the mount, if the horse would be unarmoured.
Early cataphract role was to hunt down horse archer and their armor can be leather, bronze scales and lamellar which offer little protection from hand-to-hand combat. As the Parthians begin to invade Roman territory, they increase the armor thickness and adopted iron lamellar and chainmail to encounter Roman melee advantage. Weapons like mace and battle axe was issued to encounter armored infantry and armored cavalry thus give rise of the clibanarii.
Jerry'sGoldfish
Emperor
wikipedia does miracles, indeed. 
Jerry'sGoldfish
Emperor
very well, BRAVO 
deepest respect....
ps listen to this track on youtube.....nice music....... Relaxation Music 13 - Chinese Melody [ 一翦梅 : A Spray of Plum Blossoms ]
deepest respect....
ps listen to this track on youtube.....nice music....... Relaxation Music 13 - Chinese Melody [ 一翦梅 : A Spray of Plum Blossoms ]
Parvaneh Pourshariati's Decline and Fall of the Sassanian Empire The Sassanian-Parthian
Confederacy and the Arab conquest of Iran have a lot of precious information about Sassanian Army from the beginning to the Arab Conquest. You can read it from E-Library. Some books like Al-Tabari's The History of Al-Tabari was good source of information but it have its own flaw because Al-Tabari's works came from earlier source written by other Arab and Persian authors.
Confederacy and the Arab conquest of Iran have a lot of precious information about Sassanian Army from the beginning to the Arab Conquest. You can read it from E-Library. Some books like Al-Tabari's The History of Al-Tabari was good source of information but it have its own flaw because Al-Tabari's works came from earlier source written by other Arab and Persian authors.
Jerry'sGoldfish
Emperor
give ma an adress to read more, please...
I too think you guys should be discussing this in the History forum or/and in a request thread.
Jerry'sGoldfish
Emperor
you are too kind, sir..
The History of Al-Tabari can only purchased and i have borrowed from public library a long time ago because it was expensive.
You can find it from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ and then register yourself and then login as a member and there you can get the information you want. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus can be found in http://www.gutenberg.org/ or http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/home.html from there you can get the information you want.
You can find it from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ and then register yourself and then login as a member and there you can get the information you want. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus can be found in http://www.gutenberg.org/ or http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/home.html from there you can get the information you want.
Jerry'sGoldfish
Emperor
ammianus marcellinus is 60 cm away from myself, i read some aspects but i have to read it toroughly. as concerning al tabari, i will read as soon as possble. thank you.
Back on topic (the units), I was working on some units_32 and have found the Parthian Worker was missing the .ini file, so here it is:
... or you can just copy the ini file from the Assyrian Worker, copy it into the Parthian Worker folder and rename it to "Parthian Worker" and voila
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... or you can just copy the ini file from the Assyrian Worker, copy it into the Parthian Worker folder and rename it to "Parthian Worker" and voila
Ares de Borg
Norman Knight
This thread has gotten out of hand. Nice postings, though.
Jerry'sGoldfish
Emperor
ares, i want to ask you a question, did you used armour made of horn (cowhorn), it is intriguing me for weeks now. how does it behave, is it light?? i read something about, but i want to hear from somebody who saw or used it...
Ares de Borg
Norman Knight
PM me for info. 
