Quote Originally Posted by Seasoned Alcoholic
Take your point about Egypts army, but as you say they have no heavy cavalry. I'd modded my original copy of RTW vanilla 1.2 so that Egypt (when controlled by the AI) stopped steamrollering the Seleucids every new SP campaign. Once the Seleucids have chance to tech-up and get access to their heavy cavalry and elephants, then you're in trouble Problem is, the AI in RTW simply isn't challenging enough, and doesn't deploy its units in a way which would seriously threaten you - the most competitive battles IMO are online MP. Even Medium difficulty (battle difficulty) is harder than Very Hard.
True enough but point i was trying to make is that army's can only do so much its the player behind them that makes an army good. I was thinking more in terms of which army is most flexible, and flexibly is the key if fighting online unless you know what army your facing. Egypt can do pretty well vs your army setup if you switch to pharaohs bodyguard based army, and the ap cav do well against the heavy armor trick is just to use enough of em :) Of course its not perfect but it was the flexibly i was trying to point out. Just like the army you mentioned could do quite bad vs a highly mobile shoot yarmy which Egypt can also do, maybe not in rome but for sure in real life :)