Quote Originally Posted by SlickNicaG69 View Post
Also I would like to add that the money script does not only help the AI factions, it causes those who flourish too much to lose gold as well... I guess that is good if you are afraid of facing too large an enemy empire...

Imagine having to face a Seleucid Empire that owns half the world and is able to recruit an army of cataphracts and elite steppe horse archers... I am fearful myself...
Meh, the AI would still probably be too dumb to fight them effectively. I once won a defensive siege battle with 200 soldiers against an enemy army of 3000+ with 1/3 of their army being elites. All the AI did was sit around my walls getting picked off by tower archers or try to go through the main gate and being boiled alive by the gate oil defenses.

When fighting enemy cataphracts, I just use spearmen since the AI cavalry usually blindly charges my lines head on and die in a few seconds. Their horse archers would be problematic since they'd be in constant skirmish mode and just run away all the time, but that's countered by your own horse archers, archers, or siege battles.