"They forged their spears in truth" is a good quote for Persians, considering they were (mostly) Zoroastrians at the time, which has as one of its central ideas the concept of "Asha" which means something like truth, rightness and justice.
@El Taino No it is not, in zoroastrianism you believe in free will, in Islam you don't. Islam says that god decided every event up until you death, this is reflected by how they always thank and rely on god for help. Zoroastrians believe they can fight evil with "good words, good deeds, good thoughts" which goes into the free will I was talking about. Zoroastrianism also doesn't have any restrictions on alcohol, pork, women covering themselves and sexual stuff outside marriage or between gays. Why? Because of the free will. You are free to do as you wish because god gave us that gift. This is definitely not the case in Islam
@@mariostar2954 God hasn't decided anything jackass. Man is the master of his own fate. In Islam, the belief is God has the absolute knowledge of past, present, and future. He knows how our story will turn out. Meanwhile, we are free to follow our own path
At 29:00 the reason you have both your faction leader and the candidate shown is that you can either get your candidate into office by reducing influence from your faction leader or from the candidate. Your faction leader isn't opposing the appointment.
It's pretty self explanatory, why would the faction leader oppose the guy he want's to put in office? Why would there be a decree option where the faction leader loses influence? It's pretty clear that one of the other candidates is opposing the candidate not the faction leader. Heir over complicates obvious things sometimes.I don't even have this game.
It wasn't your faction leader who was stopping him from getting in office but the other candidates that were running for that office and it was your leader who was trying to get him in office and thats why you got the option to decree, basically use your leader's authority to get him in office at the sacrifice of some of his influence. And if your wondering why it pulled up a pic of your faction leader along side him its because they were the two being affected by whatever decision you make.
max tomson add up the amount of units killed by the enemy and subtract that from the amount of units he lost. The difference will be how many died to friendly fire.
I would, I'm dying to play the Kingdoms of Judea and Israel.. I also wouldn't mind giving the Mittani's, the Sea Peoples, Phoenicians, or Hittites a go.
With the political obstruction at about the 28:46 mark, it's not your king that's blocking the appointment. It's just 'a noble.' Like, nobody you actually can assign, just some random nobody who's giving you grief. The reason your king pops up is, either the guy you're trying to appoint calls in some favours and gets appointed, and it costs him influence to do it, or your king can step in, directly appoint him, and just tell everyone else to back down - which costs him influence. So you're picking which of the two you want to take the influence hit, or you can decide it's not worth it and back down entirely.
Heir! Way to go buddy! It's pretty damn obvious how much you've upped your game. Finally just got to this last video having watched every single one you've produced. Kudos. Please, keep it up. Greetings from California.
Hey Heir, just wanted to say I love all your Total War videos! , Keep making them, by far the most entertaining and educational Total War series, keep it up!
I'm sure gonna watch this campaign. The Sassanids were also my favourite faction in Rome I Barbarian Invasion. So keep up the good work Heir! Make me proud 😄
The Cleansing Flames would be a good name for a Sassanid army. Seriously. Also; Shapur's Fists, The Immortals, Zurvan's Chosen, Ahriman's Vanquishers, Hands Of Fate, The Dahakas, etc.
YO HEIR!!... READ THIS!!.. TIPS FOR POLITICS!!:D.. You CAN in fact affect the people from other families in politics.. For example.. you pick your Faction leader( or any Family member).. Then you have some different "actions" like 'seek a wife', 'embezzle funds', 'become a retainer' etc.. But there is also actions like 'Assasinate' and 'Secure loyalty'.. then you press that action button and then pick whoever you want to "do" it to:).. It cost influence points however, and youre never 100% sure that he will have success.. Second, "Political Obstruction".. Its not your faction leader who is trying to prevent it, he is able to help.. Remember, there were 3 options.. 'Political favors' is you character using his own influence points to secure the office.. 'Decree' is your Faction leader using HIS OWN influence to secure the office for your Family member, and 'forget it' is obvious:).. Third.. If you ever run in to that problem where one of your Allies declare war on your puppet states Again, then side with your puppet state, because then ALL the rest of your puppets states join as well, and you will immideatly afterwards be able to sue for Peace, and demand them to become your puppet state as well, there shere fear will make them accept, because of all your Allies, and voila, you have a war which is over before it Begins, and a former military ally turned into a puppet state;D.. Hope it helps, you can always ask if you have doubts:)..
Your faction leader wasn't opposing him getting into office the person that opposes it stays anonymous it is just showing you the amount of influence that he has so you can make a better decision also when your daughter gets married off the person that she has married can't control armies but they can govern settlements. This is because they are classed as being apart of the other faction.
My first campaign is the Ostrogoths. I'm really enjoying it and the horde mechanic is a lot of fun. I think you will enjoy it, Heir. Can't wait to see more of this campaign though. -Also, you can secure loyalty of people outside your faction. You must have enough influence, and then you can use the secure loyalty action (selected from your character. I usually use faction leader) on that character. Needs (I think) 20 influence. Winning battles is an easy way to get influence, as well as governing provinces and assigning characters to political office.
Nothing would make me happier than if you did a Jutes campaign. Geats is also extremely cool with their immunity to cold. Taking over England is honestly the most fun I've ever had in a Total War experience so far.
Recently was looking for a playthrough of some Attila campaigns while im too busy to play it myself, that is somewhat knowledgeable per say haha had completely forgotten you did all these playthroughs, i used to watch some of the ones you did for rome 2, looking forward to these.
I think I understand the problem you had with securing the office , your faction leader did not appose it , he is shown in that window so you can decide what to do because that affects him ; if you choose to pull political favors , you damage the new guy's influence and leave your faction leader unharmed , if you choose to decree , you damage your faction leader's influence . about that wavering loyalty thing , i think you can kick him from his office and replace him with a candidate with better loyalty .
To piggy back on this... i see that you can use other faction members like wives to secure loyalty for non faction member charecters. It is one of there political actions.
Heir, in case if anyone didn't mention below, you use your family members to commit actions against those faction members who aren't a part of your family. For instance you want to secure a governors loyalty - find a character with enough influence (25 i believe), click on them, click the secure loyalty button, click on the character who's giving you trouble. Then you'll have a decision to make next turn if the action isn't a complete success. Typically they may need a bribe, or 'other' incentives.
Heir you have to click on your own family members and they can effect other candidates. There is a "Secure Loyalty" action your family members can do. You click the buttons that pop up when you select one of your family members and then select your target.
Heir, even in real life, members of Royal families compete for political influence. We see this even today, in modern absolute monarchies; especially Saudi Arabia, where members of the House of Saud will compete for the King's favour, to be appointed to his advisory assembly, or even try to assassinate him/their rivals. In this case, you see that the faction head and his brother/brother in law were competing for a political position; the faction head saw this as an attempt to gain political influence to be used to oppose him. This is especially dangerous in this case, because that particular member looks to be the most senior besides the faction head himself. So, for his own safety, your faction head tried to block it. It doesn't help that hi loyalty is only 4/10. Don't look at members of your family as friends. They will maintain an outward appearance of loyalty, but are always ready to backstab when aced with the opportunity to gain power.
Heirr!! To affect polictical oppenents i.e. that noble with poor loyality, simply select a candidate from your family and hit secure loyality and target the noble. You have to use influence of your family to affect the polictics. Everyone targets each other for different actions. And on a side note, your faction leader was not opposing your family member... the opposing faction was so you had to decide whether to use the family members influence or your faction leaders to push your degree through
Hey Heir! I was sad when I couldn't click and drag either, but I found in the advanced controls that you can still do so if you hold Left Alt while you click and drag units.
The one obstructing someone from office is another person other than your king, it just shows your king because he can decree it which hurts his reputation. Also if you click on one of your characters you should be able to have the option to secure loyalty, assasinate, etc. And then you should be able to click on which character you want your member to go after.
Ok, so the way you oppose the other faction or seek office (Castellan for instance) or have one of your faction seek a wife, etc, is by using influence. When you select one of your faction folks, the pane to the right of their details will show you what they can do, and the pane all the way on the right side of the screen, will show what office they can "apply" for. Also, they gain influence by doing stuff....battles, governing, etc...hope that helps a bit. (Probably wicked late)
when you appoint someone to office, sometimes they got blocked by faction leader, but if you choose to decree, faction leader will loose some influence but you get bonus loyalty from the other character instead.
Heir, you can click your faction leader or a family member and then select "secure loyalty." You then select the character who you want to do the action on.
What drove the romans mad about the sassanids is that they were an empire just as advanced and refined as theirs, challenging their discourse of sole light of civilization in the eurasian world.
Heir, when the political guy was opposed, it showed the person being opposed and the faction leader who was responsible for doing something about it. Basically you had to take a hit to the influence of the guy going into office or the leader pushing the decision through, so it was showing you those two characters. It wasn't that your faction leader was opposing him being appointed.
In order to strengthen loyalty with your subjects, you have to select one of your family members who can then try to convince them to stay loyal. This can however also backfire, so be careful.
Every one of your family's characters accumulates Influence over time (bust-icon, same as Gravitas in Rome 2). This is a sort of currency for them to conduct diplomatic actions within your realm. This includes trying to get into an office, gathering support from the noblemen as well as ensuring the loyalty of your problematic statesmen - the solution to your rebellious governor. Click on one of your guys with enough Influence, then the Strenghten Loyalty button (a handshake), then lastly on the person whose loyalty you seek to improve.
You need to click a character on your family to take action against someone outside your family, you just need enough intrigue to perform 'secure loyalty'.
Heir, you have to click on one of your faction members first, select a political actions to take, and then choose the person outside of your political party.
Heir, I might be a l little late to the party, but you can take political actions against people that aren't part of your faction, you have to do it through your faction leader. So basically you click on your faction leader and there will be a little grid menu that pops up, it gives you the option to secure loyalty, assassinate, excetera. Hope this helps, haven't watched the rest of the series yet, we'll see if you've already figured it out!
HeirofCarthage If you hold the mouse over the ring-symbol on the guy who has low loyalty, you'll see the different factors that affects it. Usually, its if you promote a character with lower rank to a higher office and so on. To fix it, you can click on a different character in your family, hit the "secure loyalty" button, and then select the guy with wavering loyalty as the target. Usually that will give a loyalty buff, sometimes, the efforts are rejected (civil war here we come), and sometimes you have to choose how to secure the loyalty ;) Hope that helps!
Heir I think you can increase a characters loyalty by clicking on a different family member (who has enough influence) then clicking one of their option to increase loyalty then select who you wish to increase
about the political intruige thing, its not that the faction leader (Bahram) and your candiate (Yazdegerd) are competing. they are two different options in how to resolve the problem. each of them have a cost on the influence of the individual you want to resolve it with and will appoint the canditate to office.
Yo Heir, select someone in your family, then select "Secure Loyalty" and then select the person whom you want to secure the loyalty of. You don't select the person you want to act upon, you select the person who you wish to MAKE the action. Make sense? Like I would select Bahraim (spelling?) and then select the disloyal guy after you hit "secure loyalty" and it should work!
Heir I think your faction leader opposed the promotion as his brother is already in quite a powerful position, and the more powerful he becomes the more likely he is to rebel. His loyalty is only 4 so its not off to a good start!
Jay H I don't think he's saying that it was unimportant since the 6th century, but saying that it's hay-day came when it had its own religious identity, with the world's largest cities.
TheFifanacho That is true. It's like comparing Ancient Greece with the Byzantines. The Byzantines had their accomplishments, but they weren't exactly the same as concepts invented by the ancient Greeks.
Jay H Yes they were more advanced back then, but that is because of things that were before Islam. Ever wondered why they never got their mindset out of the middle ages after Islam took over, although they were before their time all the hundred of years before?
In order to use an action against someone outside your family tree, click on a family member then the action you wish to use, then on the character you wish to use it on
idk if the ai would think like this, but the reason the faction leader tried to stop your appointment was cause they were brothers. Normally these types of things would happen to keep one heir from taking power from the other, especially since both have a true right to rule. Just a theory
I am just now getting to this video. I know you have a couple more episodes out already. So, if you answer this question in a video that is already out, I do apologize. But, could you talk to us a bit about why you chose the Sassanids? As opposed to the Western European factions etc. Just curious what the draw was for you to choose them.
- Foreign ambassador: _offers 400 if Heir agrees to marry off his daughter_. - Heir: Hmm .... nah, I love my daughter enough that you're gonna have to .... ooh, see these people are offering me 800! Nothing like the love of a devoted father. ^_^
Can you develop the mines, which you have quite a few of, at the same time as developing your sanitation buildings or technologies at the same time if these mines have a sanitation penalty?
I figured out the political system Heir when you secure promo's for your family's sons. Your family even though its royalty it is not the entire government of your faction, so when your giving one of your factions heirs an office and you get that notification the next turn its not your faction leader saying no you can do that but its him trying to help that character out and get him into office because the rest of the government says no. Hope you understood what im getting at XD
