What Eastern campaign to play

[Atraphoenix]

O, yes, o yes: you have to blitz with them, just to survive....

seconded.

I tried to wait 250 BC for accuracy once while I had sent all of my army to north AS assaulted my beloved nisa that had no wall then what I did restart a campaign and revenge ! İf you do not attack AS she will believe me!

for beginning period an army of "5 - 6 Family members and rest HAs in a full stack" even can kill argyrespides

[Yossarian]

The Hai is definately my favourite faction, and by some distance too! The unit roster, the very tough and useful general unit, the reforms as well as the difficult starting position all contribute to making it really exciting.

You've gotta be ready for the AS when they come for you, and they will. I mostly fight them with four to six Scythian Horse Archers (or as many as I can afford) lead by a couple of family members. This highly mobile force can take on most AS half stacks easily but may need support when fighting larger forces. I Got my faction leader up to six command stars leading this type of force and fighting his way through Phraaspa, Ekbatana and later Karkathiokerta before he died a very unfortunate death when charging a phalanx unit in the rear, many heroic victories later.

I've now established a solid empire from which to launch a serious offensive to take the rich cities of Seleukeia, Babylon and Susa. Mazaka was pillaged, ruined and gifted to Pontos to let them worry about AS forces coming out of Anatolia while Arbela has already fallen and Edessa has been left a smoking ruin...