Getting into certain factions

[DeathEmperor]

I've never been able to bring myself to do a Ptolemaioi campaign. I know they have an excellent unit roster and I know the campaign would be incredibly fun, but I can't because they were the rivals and chief enemies of the Seleukids.

Ever since I first played as them in vanilla years ago I've been a HUGE fan of the Seleukids. Playing as them got me interested in their history and the more I read about them the more fascinated I became. I consider myself fairly well-learned when it comes to most of their history, with the only exception being my disinterest of their time after Antiochus VII Sidetes as after his reign there was almost nothing but dynastic infighting. Almost everything I know about the Seleukids, Antigonids, Lagids and the Hellenistic Age as a whole is self-taught, gained from reading books ranging from ones that only just discuss the original Diadochi such as Alan Fildes & Joann Fletcher's Alexander the Great to more specialized sources such as B. Bar Kochva's The Seleucid Army: Organization and Tactics in the Great Campaigns.

My fascination with the Seleukids and the inspiration their history (and EB) give me has caused me to begin writing a novel series based on the life of Antiochus the Great. I've also started a more fiction focused story called The Sun and the Star, which is centered around Antiochus the Great and Philip V with alternate versions of the Second Macedonian War and the Roman War of Antiochus the Great.

All of this is the reason why I've never played a Ptolemaioi campaign. One never knows for sure, I might actually give them a shot in EBII