Dammit

[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.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

I'm still more worried about the enemy infantry. If I got infantry of my own they'd get slaughtered by the vast numbers of Thorakitai and elite phalanxes.

[Ibrahim]

I'm still more worried about the enemy infantry. If I got infantry of my own they'd get slaughtered by the vast numbers of Thorakitai and elite phalanxes.

HA's can tackle both of them with ease-if you know how to use them (I had an MP battle over at the tourney; phalanxes slaughtered by 5-6 HA's, once my cavalry got owned). yes, all of me troops were medium and above in phalangitai, and thorakitai.

as for how he did it? It was at 2 in the morning so i don't really remember. he got aroud my rear, an that's the last that I could tell.

[Cullhwch]

Well, how many chariots are we talking about? If you're playing on huge unit sizes they'll cover a major portion of the map and prevent your horse archers from maneuvering behind the thorakitai. And if you get too close to the chariots, you'll get massacred.

In any event, give the battle a try and let us know how it went.

[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.