Changes: Sassanids

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General Information

The Sassanids are a Persian, Zoroastrian country that is playable from 200-643, and during those times, Sassanids will tend to stay the same until the rise of Islam with the expansion of the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates where they eventually get annexed by them.

The Sassanids, like its predecessor Parthia, shares the two same rivals: Rome and Byzantium.

Strategy

Rise of the Sassanids

The Sassanids border primarily non-threatening, friendly/neutral countries (with the exceptions of to the west Rome and to the Kushan) that serve as either potential vassals or weak neighbors that exist for annexation. Begin fabricating claims on the Ghassanids as you will need to threaten war for the one bordering province they have with you in order to bypass any warning that Rome might give you. In the mean time, Albania will be willing to peacefully become your vassal if you get relations high enough with the Albanians.

Then, proceed to fabricate claims against the Lakhmids; any fabrication on any province will work, all you need is a war with the Lakhmids in order to vassalize them. Once they have been vassalized, give your new Lakhmid vassal the provinces of first Badiyat Ash Sham and then As Sahiliyah through the subject interaction menu. This now means you no longer have a direct border with the Roman Empire and you are now free to expand into India, the Russian Steppes, Central Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula; just make sure that the Romans have not warned the nation you are about to attack otherwise you will suffer enormous loses in the war (assuming Rome is stable).

Once the Romans begin to collapse, wait until their armies and manpower are exhausted, then IMMEDIATELY attack and take as much territory as you can to establish Persian dominance on the world stage over the collapsing Roman Empire.

Decisions

Form Mughal Empire

Requirements:

Primary Culture is in the Iranian Culture Group, or is Turkmeni, Uzbek, or Kyrgyz
Sunni is enabled
Is not:
- Persia
- Mughals
- Ottomans
- Iran
Is not a colonial nation
Mughals does not exist
Has at least 600 total development
Owns core provinces: Roh, Lahore, Central Doab, Sirhind, and Delhi
Is not a subject nation
At peace

Upon Enactment:

Country changes to Mughals
Gain 25 Prestige
Gain permanent claim to every province in the Bengal, Hindustan, Rajputana, Deccan, Coromandel, and West India regions.
Set government rank to Empire.
If an HRE member and not an elector, leave the empire.
Change government type to Iqta
If technology group is Nomad, change to Muslim
Change unit types to Indian (Note that the cavalry to infantry ratio gets lowered from the Muslim unit's 80% to the Indian unit's 50%)
Trigger country event "New Traditions & Ambitions"

Sassanid Ideas and Traditions

Traditions:

-1% Yearly Army Tradition Decay

Ideas:

Derafsh Kavian: +10% Morale of Armies
Persian Bureaucracy: -10% Administrative Technology Cost
Shahanshah: +1 Yearly Legitimacy
Shapur II: +1 Yearly Prestige
The Avesta: +2% Missionary Strength
Silk Road: +10% Trade Steering
Achaemenid Military Organization: +1 Yearly Army Tradition

Ambitions:

+5% Discipline

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 Then, proceed to fabricate claims against the [[File:Lakhmids.png|24px|border|link=Lakhmids]] [[Lakhmids]]; any fabrication on any province will work, all you need is a war with the [[File:Lakhmids.png|24px|border|link=Lakhmids]] [[Lakhmids]] in order to vassalize them. Once they have been vassalized, give your new Lakhmid vassal the provinces of first ''Badiyat Ash Sham'' and then ''As Sahiliyah'' through the subject interaction menu. This now means you no longer have a direct border with the [[File:Rome.png|24px|border|link=Rome]] [[Rome|Roman Empire]] and you are now free to expand into India, the Russian Steppes, Central Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula; just make sure that the Romans have not warned the nation you are about to attack otherwise you will suffer enormous loses in the war (assuming [[File:Rome.png|24px|border|link=Rome]] [[Rome]] is stable).
-Once the Romans begin to collapse, wait until their armies and manpower and exhausted, then IMMEDIATELY attack and take as much territory as you can to establish Persian dominance on the world stage over the collapsing [[File:Rome.png|24px|border|link=Rome]] [[Rome|Roman Empire]].
+Once the Romans begin to collapse, wait until their armies and manpower are exhausted, then IMMEDIATELY attack and take as much territory as you can to establish Persian dominance on the world stage over the collapsing [[File:Rome.png|24px|border|link=Rome]] [[Rome|Roman Empire]].
 ==Decisions==
 ===Form [[File:Mughals.png|24px|border|link=Mughals]] Mughal Empire===