Hai Help

[kekailoa]

I'm usually a northern barbarian player, and I know the Aedui, Luso, Arverni, Sweboz and Casse inside-out by now. Even though I've played EB for about a year, the farthest east I've ever gone was a short campaign with Baktria until I got bored. So to change things up a bit, I tried the Hai.

So far it's enjoyable, a little tough with the economy and such. The kinsman cavalry are my favorite part. But I have a few questions.

Where are the Hai homelands? Even my starting position and all the provinces around it are just lvl 3's and 4's available.

And why every turn, even when I'm not recruiting or retraining units, is my military expense growing? It grows by about 50 mnai each turn, so I'm a little confused.

Muchas gracias.

[antisocialmunky]

Part1:
-Upgrade Armavir to a Large Town
-Build in Armavir a (market), (roads), (town_garrison)(L1 law), and (sanitize)(L1 health).
= (Homeland resource will appear in Armavir)

Part 2:
-Build a Type1 government in Armavir
= (Improved government resources will appear around the Caucasus region)

Part 3:
-Build Type3 or better governments in these cities (Armavir, Karkathiokerta, Ani-Kamah, Phraaspa, Kotais, Trapezous, Kabalaka, Mtskheta)
= (Subjugation resources will appear in Amaseia and Mazaka)

You have to do some stuff for it to happen.

[Lovejoy]

And why every turn, even when I'm not recruiting or retraining units, is my military expense growing? It grows by about 50 mnai each turn, so I'm a little confused.

Muchas gracias.

Maybe your generals bodyguards are growing? If they get more influence the bodyguard get bigger.

[Novellus]

The Hayasdan campaign took a very long time for me to build up the economy. That meant avoiding wars between the Ptolemaioi and Seleukids so that I could disband most of my military. But once your economy is stabilized, you will be rewarded by much better stuff that will make the campaign much easier. You will be jumping for joy the moment you see your bodyguard cavalry change from bronze scales to iron kataphractoi!

As for the homelands, you'll have to push into the heart of the Seleukid Empire. Make sure you're ready to do so though before you decide to attack. The last thing you want is to be ganged up on by the Yellow and Gray deaths.

[kekailoa]

Thank you.

Any more hints? I seem to have no ability to recruit decent infantry or cavalry with my limited economy and am relying extremely heavily on my gold-chevroned family members. I can barely afford a itty-bitty army of three caucasian spears, one skirmisher unit, and one unit of caucasian archers.

Sad, I know, but I'm barely making 500 mnai a turn. And they're pretty experienced, all of them except the skirmishers in the silver chevrons.

[Tartaros]

Try to build up mines!
there are a lot of good places.

[anubis88]

Any other advices about the Hai? I also tried them once or twice, but gave up the second the Seleucid's attacked me... I couldn't stop them. And where should Hai expand at first? Which provinces to take? the ones north of them?