Quote Originally Posted by CountArach
Wow, Seleucids are keeping you at bay! I suppose not having any real elites will punish you.
The Seleucids are giving me a hard time too. They are at war with the Ptolemaioi, the Ptolemaioi constanly threaten their southern flank, and you know what? They attack me! So I took all of their Asia Minor possesions, which included Tarsos, and Antioch. Then in all of a sudden the Romans attacked me, the Ptolemaioi attacked me, and a little later the Epeirotes attacked me. I pushed the Ptolemaioi out of Asia Minor, took two regions of the Romani and got a ceasefire and a new alliance from them, nearly anihilated the Epeirotes, but now I find myself threatened by nearly all of the standing Seleucid armies. They have just about thrown every single able soldier they could find onto me.

It started with just an invasion army, that fled from my garrison in Antioch without taking even a single casualty (they simply turned, and ran away before the fight had even begun), but one turn later it included stacks of thorakitai (the Seleukids simply love them, and so do I - provided that they don't attack me), spherdonetai (spelling?), pantodapoi, pantodapoi palangitai, pezhetairoi, thanavbarra (again, spelling?), peltastai, and generals. These combined forces amount over 5 full stacks, and that just for one single region, without the funds to properly finance them, and a whole southern flank now vunerable to any invasion, even if it was an invasion of akontistai.