Quote Originally Posted by Korlon
That might be part of the reason why you're not gaining too much money. Your army's expensive! Seriously, three units of Argyraspidai plus six of those what I'm guessing to be Klerouchoi Phalangitai is fairly high upkeep. You can do almost the same with those cheap Pantodapoi Phalangitai.

And you can probably go without a lot of that cavalry as well. I usually just use my general as my horses. Sometimes maybe another one, but usually not.

And if you have elephants, DISBAND THEM. Elephants are fun units for when you're rich, not when your income's only 3000-4000 mnai a turn.
I think you guessed right :) ... Yes, I'm beginning to see what I'm doing wrong. As for the elephants - I have none. I want to be rich SO I can have some (and I promise, its the ONLY reason that I want to be rich :P ). Then i could transfer elephants to Asia Minor and invade Greece as a reborn Alexander coming back to haunt them (I know I may be expecting quite a lot from the AI ). I think I'll reconsider all my armies. My eastern ones may also be expensive, since I'm not used to Iranian cavalry, and some of it costs me a lot of money with me recruiting almost at random, even though Persian Archer/Spearmen win my every victory anyway.