Quote Originally Posted by Fridge
In that case, it might be helpful to know those chariots are made by Blacksmiths. They're probably the first non-crappy unit you get, but their appearance on the battlefield doesn't say much about the Seleuc's military advancement, as they exist outside of the normal tree.

If you've got archers, they tend to send them amok quite quickly, and a scythed chariot running amok through their own phalanxes is not a pretty sight... Well, for you it might be.
Yep! just met a Seleucid army with two of these armoured chariot units outside the city of Seleucia. Can't say I was impressed. One unit attempted to take on two units of Arab Horse Archers and ended up running amok. The other charged a unit of my own chariots and resulted in a swirling chariot melee, I put an end to it by sending in my trusty desert cavalry and it was soon running for the base line.

After that it was back to target practice on the enemy phalanx forest. Final score 1532 v 67 pretty decisive victory. Seleucia is now an Egyptian city and churning out Egyptian chariots.