Quote Originally Posted by General Appo
Indeed. However, in 168 BC Antiochus IV actually invaded Egypt and Kypros, and came close to capturing Alexandreia, until a Roman envoy threatend him with war and forced him to withdraw his forces from Egypt and Kypros.
Just one year later the Parthians (Pahlava) captured the city of Herat in modern Afghanistan and effectively splitted the Greek world in two.
After 164 BC Civil War ravaged the empire, and for quite some time large areas of the empire were ruled independently by various usurpers.
Around 140 the Jews in Judea were fully independent, and the Parthians had captured the entire Iranian Plateau.
By 100 BC the Seleukids controlled little more then Antioch and parts of Syria, and in 83 BC this to was lost when the Armenian king invaded Syria.
For a few years during the 60s BC a Seleukid rump state served as a Roman client kingdom, but I think a L4 Gov. could represent this just as good.
I do wonder how you´re going to get Hayasdan to conquer Syria though, they´ve never really been famous for doing such in EB. Oh well, it´s almost a hundred years to go.
Indeed, the AI Hayasdan isn't interested in moving south, only forever trying to expand north into the steppe. It's a result of that which caused me to put two of their full stacks on Krete where they can't do any ahistorical damage. It's annoying, I can FD them the right territories, but they won't actually move in that direction.