I've been slowly playing this game, and it's turning out pretty well. First thing, I made a little army of machimoi phalanx, peltasts and some of that egyptian light cavalry, and I went and took Kyrene and Ammonion. I probably wouldn't have bothered to normally, but there's a rebel army around there that always bothers me, so while taking them out, I figured I might as well gain some land. While I did that, I put a small little army together and took Antiocheia. A few turns later, I lost Tarsos, but it wasn't too hard to get it back. I built mines on Kypros and built an army in Antiocheia, because you can use AS's good MIC there. I had a bunch of medium phalanx units, some Jews, some archers, mercenary thracian peltasts and some galatian mercenaries. I fought some big battles near Damaskos first, took that town, fought some more big battles near Palmyra, took that town too, and now I'm seiging Edessa. There's a decently sized army in there, but it's just a lot of eastern light infantry and some native phalanxes, so it shouldn't be too bad. I have spies looking at Babylon and Seleukeia, and there's like two units in each. I'll go and sack them at least, after I take Edessa. Then I guess I'll move on to Asia Minor. Pontos is causing trouble there, which is a good, because no one is bothering me yet.

It's a fun campaign. Not really hard at all, but you do fight quite a few big battles right at the start. I don't like how you don't have a good cheap phalanx unit that you can build outside of Egypt, but I imagine if I stopped fighting for a while and built up my economy, I wouldn't think of medium phalanxes as expensive.