Originally Posted by
Sp4
I started playing a campaign as them but couldn't be bothered after a while. Siege assaults are impossible cause you can't attack with your horse archers and your infantry is the worst in the game (I don't even know why they have any... probably to push battering rams), fighting heavily armoured units is a real pain in the rear. Basically, you want to become friends and not worry about anything Greek from turn one, although I can see factions like the Egyptians and maybe Seleucids not being so terrible cause they don't have quality hoplites.
Still, late game, horse archers aren't that great and you have to combine them with the heavy cav you get as a Nomad faction (they have more or less the same roster) and I think I would try to expand West asap, get into the Celtic regions and recruit an army or two of mercenary Celtic swords and then come back for the hoplite spammers.