Satres, the nigh-invincible general?

[TheGlobalizer]

Interesting thing happened in the past 40 or so seasons of my Romani campaign -- in the area surrounding Iuvavoaeta, the Eleutheroi had a 10-star general named Satres walking around with a stack outside of the city.

No big deal, I thought. Yeah, the Eleutheroi are tough, but I should be able to take him down. Well, no. His unit is a group of "solduros" (sp?), a group of 62 infantry with something like a 24 attack and 37 defense. In his stack he also has a second group of solduros.

So, I throw some stacks at him.

First stack (hastati, triarii): Loss, escaped with my faction leader and little else. Killed about 400. Ouch.
Second stack (principes, triarii): Better prepared. Loss. Escaped with my faction leader and little else. Killed about 1000, leaving Satres lightly defended.
Third stack (principes, triarii): Loss. Satres appears to have reinforced somehow. However, just before my last troops rout, I kill Satres.

...or so I thought. Satres appears to respawn with ANOTHER FULL STACK.

Fourth stack (pedites extraordinarii, triarii): Loss. Dense forest battle, lose track of my army, get surrounded. Killed about 300.
Fifth stack (pedites extraordinarii, polybian triarii, equites romani): Loss. Smashed up a good portion of Satres' stack.
Sixth stack (pedites extraordinarii, polybian triarii, equites extraordinarii): Laid siege to Iuvavoaeta directly (skip the issue?); Satres attacks me. I use 6 units (3 ped, 3 triarii) to hold off the city's defenses (mostly alpine phalanxes and celtic axemen); I use the other 10 infantry (5/5) to attack Satres' group, with the cavalry (3 eq-ex + 1 general) hitting and running in alternation. I win, with about 60 soldiers (of 1200) remaining.

Sheesh. It took me all weekend to kill that guy.

In the meantime, I chased Carthage out of Africa altogether, pushed deep into Gaul, and held off three full stacks of Epirotes in Segestica.

Anyone have a similarly annoying experience?