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    Chariots - we hates them we hates them we hates them precious

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    Actually, I think Cretan Archers have range equal to that of the Egyptian chariot archers. Try sending a family member to Crete or Asia Minor to pick up some mercenaries.
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    Scythed chariots are easy to deal with, once you kill 3 chariots they run amok. Hillmen I've found are the best at overwhelming a chariot unit. With 4 units of hillmen in 1 battle I killed 2 Egyptian generals and 1 unit of chariot archers. But of course that was back when basic horse archers worked right.
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    Egyptian onces are rough as they won't run amok... and if the terrain is right they will easily close in before arrows do much to them anyway.

    Best is probably slow them down with mass infantries then mob them. age old tactics that never really fail
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    Elephants seem to work quite well for the Seleucids - followed up by infantry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Magraev
    Elephants seem to work quite well for the Seleucids - followed up by infantry.

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    Playing the Egyptians I find my chariots quite vulnerable to cavalry-attacks. Even light cav will inflict enough damage/kills to my chariots to make them route. So you may use light-cav for flanking. They have enough in numbers and are maybe fast enough. So and hope for the best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blacknek
    Playing the Egyptians I find my chariots quite vulnerable to cavalry-attacks. Even light cav will inflict enough damage/kills to my chariots to make them route. So you may use light-cav for flanking. They have enough in numbers and are maybe fast enough. So and hope for the best.

    Hope this works,
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    The problem with cavalry is that the chariots have a nasty tendency to kill any cavalryman that gets close. The factor that drops infantry kills cavalry. So chariots are possibly the best cavalrykillers out there.
    The worst case has to be Chariot Archers as they can kill a number of pursuers before turning and butcher them. You have to catch them off guard to get them with cavalry.
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