Sassanid Infantry

[Sextus Saturninus]

If you say all Sassanid infantry were conscripts, where is your evidence? How can loot distribution effect their fighting capabilities? That sounds more like you are talking about Rome Total War than real Sassanids. Also, how do you explain Cataphracts if all Sassanid fighters are levies? Sassanids had heavy infantry, and were a powerful nation. A group of levy soldiers would not defeat the Roman empire, or pose a threat to them. Sassanids were not just a huge group of poor peasants!