Army compostion for seleucids in the west

[seleucid empire]

i think you should get a few more units of hypaspistai when you conquer pella. they are very versatile and a life saver when fighting romans. they are more versatile than TABs for me. ive only found one use for TABs and thats to guard flanks against cavalry when your other cavalry is tied up. they are like flexible phalanxs for me. i never use them as flanking force, only to guard my own flanks. But they are soo good at that

[seleucid empire]

oh and btw your first priority i think should be to conquer a ring around the black sea before you begin attacking makedon and getai. if you conquer the entire black sea and build some ports the black sea will add around 10, 000 to your income. what difficulty are you playing on btw?

[panten]

oh and btw your first priority i think should be to conquer a ring around the black sea before you begin attacking makedon and getai. if you conquer the entire black sea and build some ports the black sea will add around 10, 000 to your income. what difficulty are you playing on btw?

I play on VH/M. So far I own pretty much all of the Black Sea already, except Kallatis (which is infested with the Getai, so no going there atm) I make around 30.000mnai a turn and unfortunately I can't cut spending as much as I would want to since I need loads of troops to control the Steppe regions and keep the Saka in check. I don't want to march into Greece before I have finished my campaign in India and secured my borders in Arabia. Fighting the Getai and Macedon will be challenging, and I'd rather have my royal army around and maybe a stack in reserve.

[seleucid empire]

i think the getai stacks around the black sea wont be too hard to handle, their elite stacks usually go west onto pannonia so the stack in kallatis and oblia should be filled with thracian levies. in my seleucis campaigns india has just been a big drain on money cause i have to build loads of happiness buildings. send a spy to oblia and kallatis and check out their situations. if they are filled with levies i think you should just besiege them. your playing medium battles so it should be ok

[panten]

i think the getai stacks around the black sea wont be too hard to handle, their elite stacks usually go west onto pannonia so the stack in kallatis and oblia should be filled with thracian levies. in my seleucis campaigns india has just been a big drain on money cause i have to build loads of happiness buildings. send a spy to oblia and kallatis and check out their situations. if they are filled with levies i think you should just besiege them. your playing medium battles so it should be ok

Oh, I'm not afraid of the battles, I'm just a bit reluctant to open up my empire and create more points of possible conflict. I know it's just the AI, but I prefer to attack from a strong defensive position, and right now I have two chokepoints that are easily defendable and reinforcable: the Crimean and Byzantion. I guess I don't want to give up these positions just yet as it would also mean to wreak factional havoc in Greece. Although I have around four full stacks in the area, I want to add a bit more military power to have a quick and decicive campaign. When I eliminated Hayasdan I went in with three full stacks eliminated all resistance in one turn and had them completely annihalted one year after that. I have a prolonged war with the Saba, Saka, and Baktria due to the remoteness of the regions.

For Greece I have all the logistics I need and the recruitment centers around the corner - I will have fun with that and not drag it out like other campaigns :)

[seleucid empire]

hahah make it more more interesting if you can. see if you can move a Roman stack into greece using cheats or something start a Roman war. Then send another stack into Asia minor and you can have a battle of magnesia i think your campaign is 188?? thats only like 1 year after the real battle of magnesia

[panten]

hahah make it more more interesting if you can. see if you can move a Roman stack into greece using cheats or something start a Roman war. Then send another stack into Asia minor and you can have a battle of magnesia i think your campaign is 188?? thats only like 1 year after the real battle of magnesia

Sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately, the Romans in my campaign are battling it out with the Lusos right now and have suffered some setbacks, so I don't want to further weaken them :/

Besides, I'm currently having a blast with my Roman campaign and I'm campaining against the Arche - bad for them, but some sort of Magnesia has already happened, and there are more full stacks on the way so I'll have some more fun battles :D