Quote Originally Posted by The Persian Cataphract
...Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat...???
Yes, never checked the betatester fora? Sauromatae get big & mean nowadays; with possibly only the Hayasdan keeping them from becoming absolute murder. I think the AI feels it need to compensate for it's earlier shortcomings.

(I've seen the Hayasdan going after the Sauromatae and winning; but on the AI progression threads it's more like the Sauromatae can cope with them reasonably well. Point is there's a lot of rebel territory and the Sauromatae love to do this 'overrun' thing of them. There's also a lot of Sauromatae army compared to their size...)