Dammit

[Zradha Pahlavan]

And all three of those things have nothing to do with my situation.

1. All of my cities have good sanitation. I made sure of that early on when I captured them.

2. My empire is too vast for a relocation of my capital to have any good effect.

3. I have many spies in both my cities and my enemies' cities.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Having good sanitation might not be enough to make your people use it... Anyhow, check the scrolls to see if squalor is *really* not an issue. Taxes? Lotsa cultural unrest from 'foreign' buildings? Annoying & embarrasing or downright oppressive governors? Lack of governors?

[General Appo]

3. I have many spies in both my cities and my enemies' cities.

Then you´ll know from where the Seleukids get their armies. And might even get an assassing or two there and start burning some stuff...

[Beefy187]

Im guessing culture penalty. Try destroy all the unnecessary buildings like enemy barracks. Until your cities turn in to your culture, reduce tax rates to the lowest.

[Ludens]

Im guessing culture penalty. Try destroy all the unnecessary buildings like enemy barracks. Until your cities turn in to your culture, reduce tax rates to the lowest.

Culture penalty actually derives mostly from the governor's residence, so tearing down other buildings may not help much. Setting taxes to low also increases population growth, which in turn increases squalor, but you can upgrade the governor's residence faster this way.

[Olaf The Great]

If the Seleucids still have Susa, Seleukia, or Antiocheia you can expect them to still ship out >9000 elites a turn.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

Yeah, it's probably the culture penalty. Hadn't thought of that. I'll see what can be done to fix it, if anything.

Taxes are on low in all of the rebellious cities, which isn't always a good thing because the population grows faster and that leads to more problems. Also, sanitation is good in most cities except for the large ones.

Apparently all of the seleucid Thorakitai and Friends are being produced in Antiochea, which I thought I put a spy in but apparently I didn't. There is also a city near the Pontic border that produces them.

And as for the battle that may soon occur...
Thorakitai and chariots vs. horse archers. Any bets on who will win?

[Cullhwch]

Not to doubt your abilities, but scythed chariots could present a massive problem for your HAs. I'd suggest getting a few units of mercenary infantry to slow them down and kill them.

[Beefy187]

Culture penalty actually derives mostly from the governor's residence, so tearing down other buildings may not help much. Setting taxes to low also increases population growth, which in turn increases squalor, but you can upgrade the governor's residence faster this way.

Really? never knew that. Cheers

[Zradha Pahlavan]

I finally got them to fight.

Battle Results [roughly]:
1400 enemies killed
200 out if 400 allies killed
700 enemies still survivng

The chariots went down easy, and I managed to elude the main army for most of the battle. Unfortuantely, a group of mercenary slingers killed a lot of my guys, and it took forever to break through the main line and slaughter them. I was able to hit the general's unit hard with my whole army, killing him. The other lesser troops routed easily, but the phalangites and the other heavy troops wouldn't break.

Just thought you might want to know.