I must admit I'm also beginning to get the small army/fleet thing now.

At the opening of my invasion of Eygpt I had two massive battles. One at the gates of Sardis and the second at Tarsus. These were both more or less 1:1 and those chariots are a real pain.

Plus two massive naval battles off the coast of Sparta which destroyed the Egyptian fleets.

But since then things have degenerated into a dribble of small Eygptian units (Armies and Fleets) running into my garrisons.

Mind you I have just done something almost as stupid myself. Having taken Tarsus I noticed that Mazaka was held by a rebel faction. Now, so far rebel factions have always been a walkover for my armies so I thought this was good opportunity to snap up another province and give one of my newly adopted generals a bit of combat practice.

So, I divided my Tarsus garrison and leaving Oppius the Mighty defending my Cilicia I sent his subordinate with a medium sized army through the pass to invade Cappadocia. He goes marching up to the city and declares the start of a siege only to discover that the city is brim full of the most viscious looking units he's even seen. Ok! Theres a couple of peasant units but most of the rebel army seems to consist of heavily armourered cavalry the like of which House Brutii have never faced before and my armies still don't have any spear armed infantry.

I am kicking myself for being so complacent and not sending a spy to check things out before I attacked but at least I know I need to run like hell next turn.