It wouldn't be so bad if the cities which had been wickedly stolen from their rightful Baktrian owners had gone to the Eleutheroi, but instead they're now Seleucid, which means that at the start you have a choice between immediately declaring war yourself or disbanding your army and going click-wait, click-wait, click-wait, like playing Hayasdan in v.0.6, until you have a big enough pile of money to do what you want.