Welcome to Persia | Victoria 2 Heirs to Aquitania

We’re immediately under attack by the Roman Empire. Persia, our new nation, seems promising but we don’t have time - all troops to the north now! Persia in Heirs to Aquitania appears much stronger than the Persia of vanilla or Divergences of Darkness. From Afghanistan to the Levant it controls a huge swathe of land in 1836. It even has more accepted cultures. But the vast territory it owns is coveted and as an unciv, we’re weak. The traditional nemesis of Persia, Rome, defeated Armenia then secured its interests in Eastern Europe by assisting Poland. Now, in 1841, they’re marching round through the Caucasus into Persia seemingly to carve a route into India. We surely can’t defend ourselves against the mighty Romans, but our key geographic position could be our salvation: other powers with interests in India might be willing to defend Persia as a buffer to keep Rome out. If we survive the day 1 existential fight against the Romans, Persia needs some good nation-building to bring her to westernisation. After a thrilling knife-edge struggle against Virtualrock’s Smolensk in the Russian Civil War, I was defeated as the Russian Tsardom. During every rehost, both of us looked around the world to see the status of potential “exile” countries that we could switch to in the event of annexation. Teralarga was taken by the crushed Celtic Federation, Egypt was colonised by Naples before a player could even claim it, but one promising nation remained: Persia. Watch the epic Russian Civil War video here:    • The Russian Civil War | Victoria 2 Heirs t...   The original mod, Heirs to Aquitania by Savolainen5: https://github.com/Savolainen5/The-He... The multiplayer version we’re playing is by Godog with some edits by Dempsey. The version (now outdated) we played was 1.1 of a sub-branch by Dempsey: https://github.com/GODOG4/HtA-Dempsey... For up-to-date versions, here is the GitHub of Godog’s HtA “Lovesick” multiplayer: https://github.com/GODOG4/HtA-Lovesic... 00:00 Intro: Welcome To Persia 02:17 Persia 1841 Overview 07:13 The Calm Before The Storm, Session 1 11:04 Session 2 14:13 First Roman Incursion 18:31 The Desperate Defence of Persia 27:20 I’m Tired, Xerxes 32:38 Out of Existence 36:40 Accepting Peace 39:05 Successful Intervention 41:01 Diplomacy & Situation Overview 44:22 Heirs to Aquitania Modding History 45:54 War Analysis 49:42 Nation-Building & Outro Music in order of appearance: (all the classical music is in the public domain). 5th Symphony 2nd movement, Tchaikovsky Qajar Persia modern theme, CIV7 soundtrack In The Steppes of Central Asia, Alexander Borodin Persia Ambient - Morghe Sahar, CIV6 soundtrack Duke of Death, medieval 2 total war soundtrack Big Drumming, Kevin MacLeod “Moqaddameh: Tchekad” (Persian Music):    • Moqaddameh : Tchekad (Persian music)   “Ey, Iran” instrumental 'Legionnaire' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au    • Scott Buckley - 'Legionnaire' [Epic Orches...   Modern Warfare 2 montage over which I overlayed The Kill (Bury Me) by 30 Seconds To Mars:    • IReapZz - MW2 Montage 5   Oppressive Gloom, Kevin MacLeod Patreon:   / spudgunofficial   Second channel for stream archives:    / @thespudgunarchives   Third channel for memes:    / @spudyphus   Discord:   / discord   Twitter:   / spudguno