Papadragon18 bit from aegyptus and tunis, those areas were fertile For diferent reasons, first for the nylus, and tunis because of the atlas mountains, tunis, north algeria and morroco still are fertile areas
dat doo Well, we could also blame the planet for having an axis shift that caused the once lush jungles of the Sahara to die out. Which likely caused a mass migration of people to Mesopotamia. But yeah, overgrazing certainly did a number on Northern Africa. And yes, I knew this before I made the original post.
That fertility grade is not about historical fact. It is more likely Slavic Religion benefit. You can check detail of religious building, 'Temple of Mokosh' from totalwar.wikia.com/wiki/Slavic_Paganism
You can turn the Northern Sahara Desert into a bread basket if you believe in Slavic Paganism enough apparently... Someone should bring this proposal to the United Nations.
north africa was once very furtile . after the romans took over carthage the romans filled their food supplies from the grain produced in carthage. a lot of lands are still very furtile in Tunisia . coastal regions grow among the best wines in the world. plus its top 3 in olive oil production
Guess you learn something new everyday. I'll repay the favor: black holes and neutron stars are created when a star collapses that has at least 1.4 times the mass of our sun. In contrast, our sun will end up as a white dwarf, which is still extremely dense, though not as much, as the other two end results.
Started a new alans campaign because of this, just did a battle of 1500 vs 3100 and destroyed 3000 with 158 men lost. This video describes exactly how I feel.
I totally lost my shit at the 'Are you Genghis Khan or something' part XDDD Only if the poor old Temuchin had heard of the Alani horde... WORLD SUPREMACY WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED Alans may not be the best faction for 'floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee'. But sure as hell they'll charge at you like a horde of rhinos instead!
Mobility is exactly why WW1 turned out the way it did. Or rather, lack of. While everyone there had railroad, it didn't change the fact most fighting bogged down to infantry combat. Mixed with old war tactics and new tech, the battles quickly turned into a slog match as both sides inevitably dug trenchs and entrenched themselves. Planes were still lacking and tanks only came into the picture halfway into the war and they still were not enough to end it. Hence why in WW2, a major reason for German success in the early parts of the war was the quick defeat of allied nation after allied nation. Blitzkrieg relied on using mobility and quick strikes to knock out the enemies ability to fight as quick as possible with the slower units left to the job of mopping up whats left. Tactics that are still used to this day as they are the most effective means of using mobile warfare(Tanks, armored infantry carriers, planes, etc.). Basically the best way to wage war, is to conduct it as quick as possible, to win as quick as possible with as little losses as possible. If you get into a endless war of attrition, your going to lose lots of manpower, resources, etc. You must win first then go to war before you go to war first than seek to win.
@@gabrielalejandrodoldan4722 are you joking? the Von schlieffen plan was based around mobility, and france's lack of it made them almost lose the maginot line.
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Love the music and the cav micro. My real time skills are not at your level. But you also seem to know exactly how to derp out their AI :) Love all your vids, can't wait for the next one
ALANS, an ancient Iranian tribe of the northern (Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, Massagete) group, known to classical writers from the first centuries A.D. (see, e.g., Seneca, Thyestes 630; Annaeus Lucan, Pharsalia 8.223, 10.454; Lucian, Toxaris 51, 54, 55, 60; Ptolemy, Geographia 6.14.3, 9, 11; and other sources below). Their name appears in Greek as Alanoi, in Latin as Alani or Halani. The same tribes, or affiliated ones, are mentioned as the Asaioi (Ptolemy 5.9.16), Rhoxolanoi, Aorsoi, Sirakoi, and Iazyges (Strabo 2.5.7, 7.2.4; 11.2.1, 11.5.8; 7.2.4). In early times the main mass of the Alans was settled north of the Caspian and Black seas. Later they also occupied the Crimea and considerable territory in the northern Caucasus. The history of the Alans can be divided into three periods: (1) from the beginning of the Christian era to the great migration of peoples; (2) from that period to the Mongol invasion; (3) subsequent to the Mongol invasion. During the first period, the Alans appear as a nomadic, warlike, pastoral people who were professional warriors and took service, at various times, with the Romans, Parthians, and Sasanians. Their cavalry was particularly renowned. They participated in Mithridates’ wars with Rome (chronicled by Lucan), as well as in Roman campaigns in Armenia, Media, and Parthia in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. (see Josephus, Jewish Wars 7.244-51, Antiquities 18.97; cf. accounts in Moses of Khoren, History of the Armenians [Langlois, Historiens II, pp. 105-06, 125] and the Georgian Chronicle [Kartlis tskhovreba, in M. F. Brosset and D. I. Chubinov, Histoire de la Georgie I, St. Petersburg, 1849]). Ammianus Marcellinus (31.2) describes the Alans’ nomadic economy and warlike customs. The invasion of the Huns split the Alans into two parts, the European and the Caucasian. Some of the European Alans were drawn into the migration of peoples from eastern into western Europe. With the Germanic tribes of Visigoths and Vandals they passed into Gaul and Spain, some even reaching North Africa. The Alans fought on the side of the Romans in the battle of the Catalaunian Fields (A.D. 451), when Aetius defeated Attila, chief of the Huns. In 461 and 464 they made incursions into Italy. After Attila’s death they struggled, together with the Germanic tribes, to free themselves from Hun domination. Large Alan hordes settled along the middle course of the Loire in Gaul under King Sangiban and on the lower Danube with King Candac (the historian Jordanes sprang from the latter group). Another settlement is indicated by the name of the Spanish province Catalonia, which is but a slight deformation of Goth-Alania, “province of the Goths and Alans.” The French proper name “Alain” and English “Alan” are an inheritance from the tribe. The Alans also left an imprint on Celtic folk-poetry, e.g., the cycle of legends concerning King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table (see M. Hesse, “Iranisches Sagengut im Christlichen Epos,” Atlantis 1937, pp. 621-28; J. H. Grisward, “Le motif de l’épée jetée au lac: la mort d’Arthur et la mort de Batradz,” Romania 90, 1969, pp. 289-340). Part of the European Alans remained in the lands bordering the Black Sea, including the Crimea. The Caucasian Alans occupied part of the Caucasian plain and the foothills of the main mountain chain from the headwaters of the Kuban river and its tributary, the Zelenchuk (in the west), to the Daryal gorge (in the east). They became sedentary and took to cattle-breeding and agriculture. Towns developed, elements of state organization appeared, and political and cultural ties were established with Byzantium, Georgia, Abkhazia [see Abḵāz], the Khazars, and Russia. Dynastic marriages were concluded with these countries. From the 5th century on, Christian propaganda was conducted, first by Byzantine, later also by Georgian, missionaries. The Alans adopted Christianity in the 10th century, and an Alan episcopal see was created. In 244/857 Boḡā, a general of the caliph of Baghdad, invaded Transcaucasia and the northern Caucasus, devastating Georgia, Abkhazia, the Alan country, and the Khazar lands. The Alans soon recovered, however, and restored their state. They are often mentioned by medieval writers, both western (Procopius of Caesarea, Menander, Theophanes of Byzantium, Constantine Porphyrogenitus) and Arab and Persian. The latter use the name “Alān” or “Ās”; and in Russian chronicles and Hungarian sources the form “Yas” is found. In the 4th/10th century the Arab historian Masʿūdī indicates that the Alan kingdom stretched from Daghestan to Abkhazia. He describes its prosperity: “The Alan king (can) muster 30,000 horsemen. He is powerful, very strong and influential (among?) the kings. The kingdom consists of an uninterrupted series of settlements; when the cock crows (in one of them), the answer comes from the other parts of the kingdom, because the villages are intermingled and close together” (trans. V. Minorsky, A History of Sharvan and Darband, Cambridge, 1958, pp. 156-60). The anonymous Ḥodūd al-ʿālam (trans. Minorsky, pp. 83, 161, 318, 445) describes Alania as a vast country with 1,000 settlements; the people included both Christians and idol-worshipers, mountaineers and plain-dwellers. The text makes the important statement that, in the north, the Alans bordered on the Hungarians and the Bulgars (the ancestors of the Chuvash). In the east they gave their name to the Daryal gorge, called “Gate of the Alans” (Arabic Bāb al-Lān, Persian Dar-e Alān, hence Daryal). The Mongol invasion of the 7th/13th century and Tamerlane’s wars in the 8th/14th proved fatal to the Alan state. Its organization was destroyed, and the population suffered heavy loss. Ebn al-Aṯīr reports: “The Tatars attacked the Alans; they massacred them, committed many outrages, plundered and seized prisoners, and marched on against the Qipchaqs” (XII, p. 252; for the events of 1221 A.D., see Camb. Hist. Iran V, p. 311). The remnants of the Alans broke up into three groups. One retreated into the foothills and gorges of the central Caucasus and lives there up to the present [see Ossetes], numbering some 400,000. The people of their eastern branch call themselves “Ir”, those of the western branch “Digor.” The name “Alan” survives among them, in the form “Allon”, only in folklore. (Russian “Osetiny” is from Georgian Oseti, “Alania.” The Georgians had long called the Alans Os- or Ovs- and their country Oset-.) A second group of Alans migrated with the Qipchaqs (Comani) into Europe, settling in Hungary. The territory they occupied is to this day called Jászság, “province of the Yas;” and its capital is Jászberény. They preserved their language and ethnic identity until the 15th century, but gradually adopted the Hungarian language and became assimilated. The third group took service under the Mongol khans. According to the Chinese chronicle Yuan-shi, these “Asu” played an important role in further Mongol expansion. The Catholic missionary John de Marignolli, who spent five years in China, states that there were up to 30,000 Ās there (H. Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither III [Hakluyt Society, second ser., no. 37], London, 1914, pp. 180ff.). In the course of time they perished in warfare or were absorbed into the local population. The name “Alan” is derived from Old Iranian *arya-, “Aryan,” and so is cognate with “Īrān” (from the gen. plur. *aryānām). The ancient Alan language may, to some extent, be reconstructed on the basis of modern Ossetic (after excluding the latter’s Turkic and Caucasian additions). The Alans created no writing, and no texts survive in their language except an inscription in Greek letters on a tombstone from the headwaters of the Kuban (Grund. Iran. Phil. I, Anhang, p. 31). A few sentences are recorded by the Byzantine author Tzetzēs (Gerhardt, “Alanen und Osseten,” pp. 37-51). Various personal, ethnic, and place names are also known (see M. Vasmer, Die Iranier in Südrussland, Leipzig, 1923, pp. 25-29). This material at least indicates clearly the Iranian character of the Alan language.
Another Turkic tribe with which Alans came in contact in the 5th and 6th century was Bulgars and then Khazars who pushed the Alan state beyond the river Terek . Alania was a vassal state of Khazars for two centuries .
Oh yeah. A third pikemen to deter exactly that sort of brutal cavalry charge; a third sword and buckler fighters to provide them cover, and a third musketeers to... well, that's obvious. :p The significance of the name, as I heard from somewhere or read on Wikipedia or something, is that 'Tercio' referred to the thirds that said infantry square was divided into.
I'm just getting back into playing Attila and played the Alans a couple times but it was hard as shit to get a foothold somewhere. But I never thought about converting to Slavic Paganism. Imma have to try that.
1:29 - "When you were youuuuuuuung and your heart...was an open book... You used to saaaaaaaaaaay live-and-let-live... But in this ever-changing woooooooooooooorld in which we live in, makes you give-in-and-cry... Say, *LIVE AND LET DIE!*
How 2 win ez with Aland 1- Build full stack of Alan horse archers 2 - Siege city x 3 - a)if the enemy doesn't sortie or doesn't bring reinforcement for a sortie, repeat 2 - b)if the enemy does sortie, do as much damage as you can, order a retreat afterward 4 - since you had no casualties in 3 -, and the enemy has lost 3/4 of their men even if you lost the battle, you can now finish them off cleanly with full ammo 5 - Sack and possibly subjugate or raze settlement, repeat from 1 - or 2 - depending on your situation Congrats, you just won.
Alans are Turkic, their King's name were "Bahatur" and their Queen's name was "Altun" which we Turks have those names even now. Bahatur means brave hero, Altun means gold or golden. Also Arabic travelers who visited Alans told that Alans are speaking Pecheneg Turk's language also in medieval Arabic book called Kitab-al Jughrafia says Alans are Turkic according to eye witness.
I missed the whole fuckin' video cause I'm stoned and I sang along to the whole song feeling as fabulous and free (from aids) as Freddie himself! I gotta watch this again.
I know this vid is old af, but how tf do I fix my Frames? Like I'll put it at max performance and it'll still drop by a lot, and I can't even really properly enjoy any battles, I have good specs and I exceed the requirements to play the game smoothly yet it won't ever run smoothly, every other Total War game I can run at Extreme or Ultra graphics.
I had to improvise with pretty much every siege. Most of my armies had either a captured siege weapon or a spare slot for a mercenary onager, so typically I'd use that to smash several holes in the wall and then rush in as hard as possible and try to break through and encircle their forces (as well as cap the point if things really weren't looking good). But if the enemy had the manpower to prevent a quick breakthrough, then I'd often take pretty steep losses. Easy to recover from though thanks to the Slavic Paganism replenishment bonuses and the fact that these guys could be recruited from a tier 1 farm.
+Yrridian You surely had fun winning as the ancestors of todays Ossetians (you know, that Iranic ethnicity living in one of Russia's constituent republics in the Caucasus, as well as in South Ossetia, a country with limited international recognition, which the majority of countries consider a part of Georgia.
@@Yrridian Oh, phew, it wasn't legendary. I've been piloting this army for a while now (had a tragic save file corruption which somehow killed all my backups as well mid run,) i get great results but never stuff as obscenely fast as what occurred at 0:35.
At least 35% of your population needs to follow a religion before you can convert to it, so the easiest way to do it is to take your one of your hordes to a province that's at least 35% Slavic pagan (Transcarpathia, Hyperborea and Germano-Sarmatia are good locations for this), colonise/conquer a region, convert, then abandon it and move to where you want to settle down.
