Quote Originally Posted by mitfox View Post
Actually, yes, you can. You don't need many of these units, just 2 or 3 early in the game make a huge difference, when all your other troops are low- level.
yeh but even thats gonna make most factions broke. Even if, say you get a hellenisitic mercenary general and 2 celtic lesser kings, thats 2000 spent on only 3 units. My entire starting Seleucid army cost about 3000 ( a third were archers and most were levies) for maintaince and i was making a scant 5k a turn