As you can probably tell by my username im a fan of the arche. Im just curious to know what your compositon for your seleucid armies are during the game, especially when you've completed victory conditions and want to take on Rome and carthage for fun. I play on the recommended H/M settings and my late game armies are completely focused on heavy infantry and cavalry elites just because they are so beautiful. i dont really have the money to raise these armies until the victory conditions are met so i tend to test them against the western factions
1st Army
1 general
1 cataphract elephant
2 hetairoi
2 cataphracts
4 Thorakitai Agematos Basilikou
8 silver shields
2 Hypaspistai
2nd army
1 general
2 hetairoi
2 prodomoi
2 hypaspistai
2 Peltastai Makedonikoi
8 Pezhetairoi
1 mercenary galatian wild men
2 cretan archers
3rd Army (mercenary)
1 mercenary general
4 mercenary Pezhetairoi
2 massylian hoplites
4 samnite heavy infantry
2 bruttian infantry
2 cretan archers
1 thessalian cavalry
4 thracian skirmishers
My first army contains the best infantry and cavalry in the game while my second army is made up of semi elites and some mercenaries. My third army is made up of whatever i can recruit along the way. What ive found is that my first army suffers the most casualties per battle (250) and second army suffers the same casualties per battle (roughly 200) as my mercenary one so im assuming its an issue to do with the balance of my army. Im wondering if anyone has a good composition for their Seleucid armies when fighting in the west. Oh and im fighting late game carthage and roman armies btw
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