Quote Originally Posted by El Diablo View Post
It is also a quite a hike from the starting cites to anything really. Troop producing cities that far away are not all that helpful really.....
forget Ctesphion. You don't need any troop producing cities in the East, just pull all of your starting armies and capture Antioch, you can use that as your biggest troop production centre, once you get Antioch it's almost game over.