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I've come to a couple of problems when selecting the civs for FAR (The 'official' title for my upcoming scenario).
The scenario deals with the middle east (Iran, Afghanistan, southern Central Asia and to a certain extent, India and Iraq) during the later dark ages (ca. 800/900-1100/1200, not entirely sure about that yet). Let me tell you this will be of certain interest at the present state of the world.
There were a couple of major empires/states in that area at that time:[*] The Samanids were the keepers of Persian culture, their empire controlled large parts of Central Asia, including Bokhara and Samarqand.[*] The Abbasid Caliphate was but a shadow to the Iranians[*] The Ghaznavids were an up and coming power of turkish descendance and later built an empire extending from Iraq to Delhi.
Then, there were a couple of minor states in Iran itself:[*] Fars, ruled by the Bujids; they later brought an end to the Abbasids by conquering their capital Baghdad.[*] The Ghurids in today's Afghanistan, keepers of the oriental culture[*] Kerman
I might have Kerman replaced, but by whom? I will include a Hindu civilization, and then I'm asking myself wether or not to include the Seldjuk Turks. Perhaps I should, but I don't know wether I should extend the scale then (I don't want to). What I don't want to include for certain is anything Christian. That would have to be too detailed, and there are several excellent scenarios about that out there.
The scenario deals with the middle east (Iran, Afghanistan, southern Central Asia and to a certain extent, India and Iraq) during the later dark ages (ca. 800/900-1100/1200, not entirely sure about that yet). Let me tell you this will be of certain interest at the present state of the world.
There were a couple of major empires/states in that area at that time:[*] The Samanids were the keepers of Persian culture, their empire controlled large parts of Central Asia, including Bokhara and Samarqand.[*] The Abbasid Caliphate was but a shadow to the Iranians[*] The Ghaznavids were an up and coming power of turkish descendance and later built an empire extending from Iraq to Delhi.
Then, there were a couple of minor states in Iran itself:[*] Fars, ruled by the Bujids; they later brought an end to the Abbasids by conquering their capital Baghdad.[*] The Ghurids in today's Afghanistan, keepers of the oriental culture[*] Kerman
I might have Kerman replaced, but by whom? I will include a Hindu civilization, and then I'm asking myself wether or not to include the Seldjuk Turks. Perhaps I should, but I don't know wether I should extend the scale then (I don't want to). What I don't want to include for certain is anything Christian. That would have to be too detailed, and there are several excellent scenarios about that out there.
Ghulami cavalry was one of their strongholds, for all i knew about it.
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