Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
To be honest, I think that the Hai have the potential to having a greater advantage than the Pahlava. Hayasdan is located very near to some of the most important cities of the Seleukidai: Antiocheia, Seleukeia, Babylon, Ekbatana, Persepolis. Take these cities from them, what remains? Some minor holdings in Mikras Asias, as well as the Hellene-low settlements of the east. It's more difficult for the Pahlava.

And i must add to this:

1) Hayasdan can use Pontic barracks when it gets their cities: Pahlava must build its own barracks, and a tone of expensive buildings to get reforms, even to get basic H/As

2) Until you reach Seleukeia and Babylon: all that you conquer with Pahlava is just little villages, without anything: so you must build them from the start with a ton of money which you dont have! As further you go with Pahlava, more AS elites will come to smash you: but as far as you get, less capable troops you have to beat AS elites

3) Pahlava is really tough... AI is a human-killer-machine