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Persian (Civ5)

Musical Theme: Morghe Sahar (arranged by Geoff Knorr) Music Set: Middle Eastern Architecture: Middle Eastern Spy Names: Azi, Dabir, Firuz, Gaspar, Shahzad, Aga, Marjane, Peri, Sartaj, Yasmin Preferred Religion: Zoroastrianism.

Strategy Edit.

The Persian civilization could well be considered the master of Golden Ages: first, their Golden Ages last 50% longer (a bonus cumulative with other, similar bonuses like that of Chichen Itza); second, their units become much more effective during a Golden Age; and third, their unique building, the Satrap's Court, has an additional Happiness enhancement, which helps in achieving Golden Ages more often. Keeping that in mind, play on the strengths provided by a Golden Age - the Gold, Culture and Production bonuses - and choose a path to victory which uses these strengths. Because of their diversity, this could be in fact any of the four paths! Try to accumulate lots of extra Happiness to reach Golden Ages more often, and time your battle moves accordingly to use the speed and combat bonuses for your units.

The Immortal is a nice early game unit which will allow the Persians to fight Barbarians effectively (by recovering from battle much faster than usual), although this bonus isn't very useful in large melees.

Civilopedia Entry Edit.

History Edit.

The term "Persia" derives from a region in southern Iran formerly known as "Persis;" it is commonly used to describe areas where the Persian language and customs predominated. There have been a series of "Persian Empires" throughout history; in this article we are specifically examining the Achaemenid dynasty, which began in 559 BC and ended some two centuries later under the onslaught of the Greek military genius Alexander the Great.

Terrain and Climate Edit.

The Iranian Peninsula, which formed the heart of the Persian Empire, is a high plateau surrounded on the east and west by mountains. To the south lie the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, to the north the Caspian Sea and more mountains. At its height the Persian Empire also encompassed Egypt, the Middle East and much of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). It's useless to generalize about the terrain and weather of such a huge and varied region spanning two continents.

Before the Persians: the Medes Edit.

Before the Persians, the Medes were the ascendant power in the area. According to the ancient historian Herodotus, the first Median king was Deioces, who ruled from 728 to 675 BC. Deioces' son Phraortes subjugated the Persians; he later died in battle against the Assyrians. At some point in the sixth century the Medes came under Scythian domination, but they withdrew or were assimilated by the end of the sixth century, and the kingdom was once again under Median control.

By all accounts king Cyaxares (625 - 585 BC) was a brilliant ruler who reorganized the Median army and took it successfully into battle against the powerful Assyrians, capturing several important Assyrian cities. Cyaxares allied with the Babylonians, and the two powers destroyed Assyria. In the division of spoils Babylon received all of the Assyrian territory in the Fertile Crescent (the area between and adjacent to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers), while the Medes took possession of the Assyrian holdings in the highlands to the east and north of Babylon, including territory in Asia Minor.

Cyaxares' son, Astyages, was evidently not as politically or militarily astute as his father; he would be the last king of the Medes.

The Rise of Persia Edit.

According to legend, King Cyaxares gave Persia to his vassal Cambyses I. Cambyses I passed the crown to his son, Cyrus II, who solidified his political position by marrying the Median King Astyages' daughter. Despite his royal connection Cyrus was not satisfied with his subordinate position, and after allying with nearby Babylon, he rebelled against the Medes. By 550 BC the Persians had emerged victorious and the Medes were no more.

Cyrus II was the first of the "Achaemenian" kings of Persia. After conquering Median territory, Cyrus expanded Persia into Asia Minor. First he diplomatically isolated and then conquered Lydia (whose king was the famously wealthy Croesus), and then he systematically besieged and took all of the Greek city-states on the west coast of Asia Minor. With his northern flank secured, Cyrus II then turned south against his previous ally Babylon.

While a great power, Babylon was internally divided, had an unpopular king, and by allowing Cyrus to destroy Lydia, was fresh out of potential allies. In the event, it fell almost without Persia striking a blow. In 539 Cyrus marched triumphantly into the city, now ruling an empire that stretched all the way to the borders of Egypt.

Cyrus did not get to enjoy his triumphs for very long. He died in battle in Central Asia in 529 BC.

Persian Expansion Edit.

Cyrus II was succeeded by his son, Cambyses II. After allegedly securing his throne by murdering his brother Bardiya, in 525 BC Cambyses led a campaign against Egypt, which fell after battles at Pelusium and Memphis. Cambyses then attempted to further extend Persian power west, but attacks against Carthage, Nubia and Amon were all unsuccessful. In 522 Cambyses learned of a revolt in Iran led by an imposter claiming to be his brother, Bardiya. He died while hurrying home to regain control of the rebellious region. It was said that he committed suicide, but some historians believe that was just propaganda spread by his successor.

Upon Cambyses II's death, one of his generals, a man named "Darius," led his troops back to Iran to crush the rebellion, which was apparently well advanced by the time Darius arrived. A member of the Achaemenian house and a distant relative of Cambyses II, Darius had himself declared Cambyses's rightful heir. It took a year of hard fighting to break the back of the revolt and to secure his claim to the throne, but by 521 Darius I was in firm control of the Persian Empire.

Darius I was by all accounts a superlative leader. After squelching the rebellion through a combination of harsh punishment of rebel leaders combined with clemency of local populations, he then worked to reorganize the empire and to codify its laws. He further expanded Persian power into northern India and he established a bridgehead across the Hellespont, giving Persia a permanent toehold in Europe. He successfully suppressed a revolt of the Greek city-states, earning Greek citizens' goodwill by removing local tyrants and returning democracy to the people.

In 492 Darius's forces had retaken Thrace and Macedonia in the Balkans, setting the stage for an invasion of Greece. At first Darius underestimated the difficulties of a Greek campaign, and in 490 the allied Greeks beat him decisively at the Battle of Marathon. Darius was forced to retreat and regroup. He began preparing for another campaign, but on a far larger and more powerful scale.

Darius I died in 486 BC, and he was succeeded by his son, Xerxes I. Xerxes immediately had to deal with a serious revolt in Egypt, which he did in one quick campaign in 484. Unlike his predecessors, Xerxes dealt harshly with the rebellious province, removing the local leaders and imposing direct Persian control on the citizens. He did the same to the Babylonians when they revolted in 482 BC.

Xerxes and the Greek Campaigns Edit.

In 480 Xerxes led a huge army into northern Greece, supported by a powerful Persian navy. Northern Greece fell to the invaders fairly easily, and despite the heroic stand of the Spartans and the Boeotians at Thermopylae, the Greeks were unable to stop Xerxes' army from marching to Athens and sacking the most powerful city-state in Greece. However, the Athenians had evacuated their city before the Persians arrived, and their navy very much remained a potent force.

At the battle of Salamis (480 BC) a Greek fleet of some 370 triremes soundly defeated 800 Persian galleys, destroying perhaps 300 Persian vessels at a cost of 40 Greek ships. This defeat delayed the planned Persian offensive further into Greece for a year, giving the Greeks time to strengthen their defenses against the invaders. Xerxes was forced to return to Persia, leaving his general Mardonius in command, and the Greeks promptly won several important naval and land battles against the new leader. With Mardonius's death in the battle of Plataea, the campaign was over and the surviving Persians withdrew from Greece in disorder.

Xerxes never mounted another invasion of Greece. In 465 BC he was assassinated.

Persian Stagnation and Decline Edit.

Ruling from 465-404 BC, the three Persian kings who followed Xerxes I - Artaxerxes I, Xerxes II, and Darius II - were weak and uninspiring. At the end of the 4th century the Persians regained some power in the Aegean, successfully playing the Greeks against one-another during the long Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta; however in 405 BC Egypt revolted and Persia was unable to regain control of the wayward province for more than 50 years.

Darius II was succeeded by Artaxerxes II, who ruled for 45 years (404 - 359 BC). During his reign Artaxerxes II fought a war against Sparta, once again over the Greek colonies in Asia Minor. Persia allied with the Athenians (who were recovering from their disastrous defeat in the Peloponnesian War) and Sparta was forced to come to terms.

Despite these occasional successes, as the third century BC progressed Persian weakness and disorganization grew. In 373 BC a group of the Empire's satraps (provincial governors) revolted. They were put down, but other revolts followed, and with growing frequency. The position of king was increasingly unstable; Artaxerxes III came to the throne as a result of treachery in 359 BC; in an attempt to secure his position he promptly murdered as many of his relatives as he could find. In 338 Artaxerxes III was poisoned at the orders of the eunuch Bagoas, who placed Artaxerxes' youngest son Arses in power. Arses promptly tried to poison Bagoas, but his effort failed and he himself was killed. Bagoas then elevated Darius III to the throne. Darius III was a former satrap of Armenia; although he was but distantly related to the late king, pretty much everybody else with a better claim was already dead.

Philip and Alexander and the End of the Achaemenians Edit.

Darius III may or may not have been an especially effective leader, it is difficult to tell. When he assumed the throne the Persian Empire had been in decline for well over a century, its many component parts in near-constant revolt against the increasingly inept central government. Palace intrigue further crippled the monarchy, and leaders who wished to survive spent as much time watching their backs as they did looking out for the interests of the Empire. Any leader who took power under those circumstances would be in trouble. However bad things at home were, they paled into insignificance when compared with the troubles headed Darius III's way from across the Hellespont.

In 359 BC, King Philip ascended to the throne of Macedon, a country straddling the line between Greece and the Balkans. Within 20 short years Philip had conquered all of Greece and then began preparations to invade Persia. Following Philip's assassination in 336 BC a young man named Alexander took the Macedonian crown. After securing his throne and suppressing a Greek rebellion, Alexander resumed Philip's invasion into Persia.

Alexander was a military genius and a man of great courage and even greater ambition. At the head of a highly disciplined Greek army equipped with superior weaponry and tactics, he drove through Persia like a hot knife through butter. Darius repeatedly met him in battle, often with far superior numbers, and Alexander simply destroyed his armies one after another. The Persian capital Persepolis fell to Alexander's armies in 330 BC, and Darius was murdered the same year. The last Achaemenian ruler had fallen to the invaders.

Summary Edit.

The Achaemenian Persian Empire survived and thrived in a dangerous neighborhood for some 200 years. At its height it dominated land from India to Egypt, from Iran to the Balkans. It was an awkward and ungainly empire, spanning three continents with citizens speaking dozens of different languages. At their best, the Achaemenian kings were lawgivers who treated their subject populations with clemency and fairness, interfering as little as possible with provincial internal policies as long as the subjects behaved themselves. At worst, the Achaemenian kings were incompetent bullying backstabbers.

Whatever else they were, the Achaemenian kings were survivors. Two hundred years is a long time for a single family to remain in power. If they hadn't lived next to Alexander and Philip they might have remained in power another 100 years. Alexander the Great himself was a brilliant leader and warlord, but his own empire barely survived his death by a year.

Persian Trivia Edit.

The Caspian horse, believed to be one of the oldest breeds of domesticated horses in the world, can be traced back to ancient Persia.

In 1935, the Persian king Reza Shah Pahlavi changed the sovereignty's name to Iran.

In Persian mythology the devil uses Persian food to corrupt the king of the land, "Zahak, The Dragon King."

Persian inventions or contributions:

The modern brick. Some of the oldest bricks found to date are Persian, from ca. 6000 BC. Invention of the tar (lute), which led to the development of the guitar. Zoroastrianism: where the first prophet of a monotheistic faith arose according to some scholars. Under the rule of Cyrus II the Great, the Cyrus Cylinder was issued. This is considered to be the first universal declaration of human rights, predating the Magna Carta by one millennium. The game polo, in 521 BC. The first taxation system (under the Achaemenid Empire).

Civilization 5 Persia - Leader: Darius I.

Civ Bonuses, Strategies, Unique Units and Buildings.

Civilization Name : Persia.

Civ Leader : Darius I.

Civ Bonus: Archaemenid Legacy :

Golden ages last 50% longer. During golden ages, your units receive +1 movement and a 10% combat strength bonus.

Unique Unit: Immortal :

Requires Bronze Working Tech, Upgrades to Pikeman, Obsolete with Civil Service.

The Immortal gets +1 combat strength over the spearman it replaces, with a total of 8. That's not a major boost, but significant enough - over 10%. They also heal at double rate. Medic is a great upgrade for them when taking out barbarians.

Unique Building: Satrap's Court: :

Requires Banking, Market Constructed.

Satrap's Court replaces the Bank and gives +2 happiness in addition to the usual 25% wealth.

Money and happiness go hand in hand I always say. The Satrap's Court is a nice uncompromising upgrade as opposed to a regular bank. The immortal isn't bad either, but the Archaemenid Legacy is where it's at with Darius. You can have 20+ turn golden ages if you are smart and build Chichen Itza! Make the most of it by ensuring that most tiles around you have at least 1 gold and 1 hammer so that you practically double your production and income. Switch over to production focus and build other Wonders, expand your military. Just don't waste it on building wealth or research. Make the boom times periods of development. That is, unless you're almost bankrupt.

Immortal (Civ5)

Production cost.

Combat strength.

Technology.

Upgrades to.

50% bonus vs. mounted units Heals at double rate.

Game Info Edit.

The Persian unique front-line unit. Replaces the Spearman.

Strategy Edit.

The Immortal lives up to its name thanks to its ability to heal twice as fast as any other unit. However, the 2x bonus does not apply to any healing received through friendly territory or the Medic promotion (either its own or another unit's; for example, an Immortal with Medic II will gain back 25 HP outside of friendly territory rather than 30). This means that if it's in friendly territory, the Immortal will regain 30 (or 35, if in a city) HP per turn! While the promotion's description would be more accurate if it read "+10 HP when healing," it is still very valuable, especially early in the game. With this ability, the Persians can engage in early combat and recover roughly twice as fast as the enemy units. Use that to your advantage, especially when clearing Barbarian encampments!

They retain their special trait when they upgrade.

Civilopedia entry Edit.

The Persian Immortals were an elite heavy infantry unit. Kept constantly at a strength of 10,000 men, they formed the heart of the Persian (Achaemenid) army. The Immortals fought under Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, and Darius the Great; when not in combat they acted as the Persian Palace Guard. The Immortals were armed with short spears, swords, bow and arrows. They carried light shields and wore scale mail armor. According to Herodotus, "Every man glittered with the gold that he carried in unlimited quantity. They were accompanied by covered carriages full of their women and servants, all elaborately fitted out. Special food, separate from the rest of the army, was brought along for them. "

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Civ 5 strategy persia.

The Rise of the Mongols Scenario for Civilization 5 comes with only 1 playable civilization the Mongols, obviously and 6 Steam Achievements. Before you get cracking in this scenario, you might want to have a look at the Rise of the Mongols Scenario Map. Beat the Mongol scenario persia any difficulty. Not very rich in variety!

Beat the Mongol scenario on the King or harder difficulty level. Beat the Mongol scenario on the Emperor or harder difficulty level. You might as well start on Emperor, conquer 6 civilizations, which is doable, and get all previous achievements! Even without knowing your ways around you will conquer China within 40 turns.

Pull all troops west then and together with the steady production in Karakorum you should make it until Thessaloniki and Cairo. Beat the Mongol strategy on the Immortal or harder difficulty level. I did not specifically go for strategy Kublai Khan achievement. Deity requires a little more research per technology and a little more culture per social strategy. Beat the Mongol scenario on the Deity difficulty level. To beat the Rise of the Mongols scenario on Deity you have wipe out all other civilizations.

You persia do it! Read below how I did it — my personal Rise of the Mongols strategy. Run out of time to beat the Mongol scenario. This is another reason why you might not want to play on Immortal at all: Even if you need two attempts to win on Deity, your first persia attempt will grant you the Khaaan! Civ start is important. Keep this up during the entire game! Getting more XP from combat social policy and again more XP for Keshiks strategy of their abilities will quickly turn them into war machines!

Nonetheless you can speed this up by making some important decisions while promoting them:. Try to focus on either Accuracy or Barragebecause you quickly want to get Logistics.

With Logistics your Keshiks can shoot two times per turn, which drastically speeds up any following promotions. Civ will conquer Persia and India. Also during this time you will prepare for two more campaigns:.

Some worker s build a road from Korea to the Northeast, always at the coast. A second pioneer corps worker build a road all the strategy from Urgench, Persias capital, to Russia. Use the money you accumulate during your conquests to buy buildings in Karakorum. You have severely crippled Japan in the first third. Now with the army built over time and shipped to Hokkaido, defeating Japan is only persia matter of time….

Aside from Japan the third part of the Rise of the Mongols strategy explains how to deal with Arabia and Byzantium. About 20 turns are enough time to defeat Russia so the declaration of war should happen around turn By then you persia have a new army at the Russian border via the road from Persia. Without conquering Cultured City States which upon capture grant 1 free social policy you will manage to get about 6 social policies.

I recommend the following order:. Always having a Khan with your units easily makes up for strategy penalty. Research plays only a minor role in the Rise of the Mongols scenario, so in persia initial version civ this guide, I completely ignored it. Now that RMcD94 had asked in the comments, I felt like checking the research path of my game.

The general guideline is: Research for happiness — do all it takes to keep your empires happiness between 0 and Unlike the historical model, your empire will include India and Japan, which the Mongols never conquered. So playing this scenario is really fun.

Sad you can not play any of the other empires trying to fight back. Or even play the scenario in strategy multiplayer match, so all your friends can ally against the Mongol hordes. Please let me know what you think about civ in the comments or share this post with your Civilization-playing friends.

I struggled with happiness and thus production for the Japanese units until I varied it slightly. Thanks for the tips! Depends — check out the last screenshots. There you can see quite well on the mini map which cities I kept and which I had razed to the ground.

Hi, I want to thank you for this guide! It really helped me while I was learning to civ the Keshiks properly, even though by the time I was going for Deity, I actually used a different plan than yours; still, you did help me a lot to learn how to beat the game! My approach is a little bit different than yours, so I hope someone could make use of it:.

Then you can go, city after city, east and then north, for eventually Beijing. For that, I only needed two Keshiks, which were the only troops going for Japan for the whole time, which I split off the main army, which then easily finished South China. It is important to use these two units to destroy Korean units first, and only then take the city so you start your Japanese campaign with more XP.

The two would go for double tap — 3-range — shooting over obstacles which is super useful on Honshu — healing in action. You can burn it to size 1, but a couple of tiles on Honshu it has are very useful for healing. Cities if you stand a chanceand then they try to go after Tokyo. It is useful to bring a worker which you conquered in China there, so he chops a few forest tiles so movement costs less. This happened around turn Even turn 90 would be fine, too.

Conquering Persia forces you to make a decision: The AI priorities are: The last Persian city can be taken with Keshiks you buy in Karakorum you have so much gold strategy this point anyway. When I got peace for two of the three remaining Persian cities, my Happiness was even fell below Luckily, the Unhappiness barbarians spawned near Guanzhou.

When the units from the Japanese front came back, they took care of that, but the city had too little time left to matter in my game anyway. Massive thanks for this guide! In my playthrough, I think I got lucky and the Western empires were a breeze. I had killed them all by turn But taking Japan was a total pain. Persia just barely got it in time. Very nice guide with visual images as a bonus. I followed your guide and it worked very well and I got the deity win right at the turn mark.

Thank you for your time to write this up. Thanks a lot for the compliment, Gilbert! Happy you made it in time. I did it on my 3rd attempt, did some variation on your strategy, and surpisingly had 12 turns maybe was even faster possible, was a bit sloppy vs india in the end left when winning.

In my first and second try i focused civ much on units and lost too much time this way. When you wipe out a civ all the units dissapear, very useful, did this with russia and Byzanz, they had up to units left when i killed them.

Buy the Keshiks instead if you need more. I time my final strategy of siam when it ends, so as the free tech i can choose engineering bridges are very useful in chinas land. Then i go for optics to capture the small Japanese city, it will be perfectly timed. Shortly after I finished of China, and did choose machinery, so i got insanely fast road movements on like turn Buying a workshop and a armory in Kakaorum is very useful.

It was actually quiet easy to conquer Japan, first I removed the units civ the south east coast, shooting from the 2 tile island, then i landed with the 3 keshiks, and thanks to the indirect fire promtion i could attack kyoto 6 times a turn, and eventually killing units coming towards me http: I only had to be careful about the embarked keshiks, since Japan can have some triremes.

I lured them out with some embarked crappy units and shot the triremes with the keshiks. So now with a quiet big army I quickly wiped of Arabia and Byzanz. After that my army marched east again, finishing of Persia no big problem and splitting afterwards between russia and India. I then did send the now insanely promoted Keshiks from Japan Japan was eliminated at that point now back west to go through the hole in Himalaya and help with india.

Hi RMcD94, good question! I had totally ignored that. AnotheR way to get Japan. How do you already have 5 Keshiks by the time you are attacking Beijing? Hi Gretta, good question. Please see the updated post above incl. I love this scenario, and played this scenario again today, and I found very interesting early-stage strategy never seen on the net before.

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Robert Kalweit Gamer, European, Civ Enthusiast. Rise of the Mongols Steam Achievements The Rise of the Mongols Scenario for Civilization 5 comes with only 1 playable civilization the Mongols, obviously and 6 Steam Achievements. Khan Beat the Mongol scenario on any difficulty. Great Khan Beat the Mongol scenario on the King or harder difficulty level. Supreme Khan Beat the Mongol scenario on the Emperor civ harder difficulty level. Kublai Khan Beat the Mongol scenario on the Immortal or harder difficulty level.

Genghis Khan Beat the Mongol scenario on the Deity difficulty level. China and Japan The start is important. Turn 0 Declare on Jin North-China and Xi-Xia Have one worker build infrastructure at Karakorum, the 2nd builds a road to Beijing. You quickly need 6 Keshiks and two Horsemen. Promote some of the Horsemen immediately, build more in Karakorum. You can worry about improving your city later.

Gretta was asking in the comments how to achieve this. Two free Horsemen from Western Xia. Already 5 Keshiks 2 Horsemen in Turn 3. Quickly get 6 Keshiks and 2 Horsemen Keshiks go for Korea South China almost defeated. The Mongol hordes before attacking Persia Main Army in the South, reinforcements from Himalaya Build a road on the Himalaya-pass. Kamakuro captured by the Mongols Japan after the peace treaty Kyoto falls between turn 80 and March on Novgorod, the last Russian city.

Winning the game on Emperor triggering two achievements. Facebook Google Twitter LinkedIn Reddit. Tom Reade tomreadeAZ says: Thanks for this guide! My approach is a little bit different than yours, strategy I hope someone could make civ of it: Thank you for your great guide. Hope this help players.

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