The Seleucids get knocked out by everybody. Some of their cities are far away from Egypt so it's either the Parthia or the Greek Cities or even Pontus that's also doing some of the sacking. In my second game, though, as Parthia, I captured all their territories and they lost the last one to rebellion.

Carthage also gets ganged upon. Scipii, Spain and Numidia seem to attack them though historically, they were allied with Numidia for most of the time. The Julii could also get in the mix.

Macedon, in my games gets beaten by the Greek Cities and the Brutii or both.

Egypt is really powerful in this game. I had trouble with them first as Parthia. Seleucids were little more than arrow dummies and so are the Greeks who just attacked. The Greeks attacked me with lots of hoplites and got easily routed by a combination of Cretian Archers, Rodian Slingers and Persian Cavalry. The only reason they inflicted some casualties on me was because there were so many of them they reached my infantry at the back of the map. I had to use my peasants, hillmen and militia hoplite to protect my slingers and archers. That and my idiot people were shooting each other.