Ptolemaioi

[orwell]

For Newbies the Ptolemies are the by far easiest faction to play

I must be doing it abhorridly wrong then. I've got.... maybe 1 full stack total in troops, thoughs its divided into a 2/3 and 1/3 portion. The larger one for attempting to reclaim any settlement not in africa, and in there I only hold the starting towns. The other smaller army is for defense from naval invasions by makedonia and kionon hellenon, the latter of which is reduced to Rhodes only and yet I can't spare troops to go conquer it due to random invasions by makedonia and sometimes rebels. Right now its been loss after loss, though I finally prepared that 2/3 army to invade the coastal cities. Though a earlier foray lead me to getting my ass handed back to me and my generals head on a seleukid silver platter. I think my campaign was VH/H, maybe next time it'll be E/E.

[Spendios]

I must be doing it abhorridly wrong then. I've got.... maybe 1 full stack total in troops, thoughs its divided into a 2/3 and 1/3 portion. The larger one for attempting to reclaim any settlement not in africa, and in there I only hold the starting towns. The other smaller army is for defense from naval invasions by makedonia and kionon hellenon, the latter of which is reduced to Rhodes only and yet I can't spare troops to go conquer it due to random invasions by makedonia and sometimes rebels. Right now its been loss after loss, though I finally prepared that 2/3 army to invade the coastal cities. Though a earlier foray lead me to getting my ass handed back to me and my generals head on a seleukid silver platter. I think my campaign was VH/H, maybe next time it'll be E/E.

This seem to be very an interesting campaign and historical too (don't forget that Ptolies never managed to conquer seleucid lands)
You should continue to play in VH for campaign setting and maybe reduce battle to medium .

[orwell]

You, or anyone else, want it?

[paullus]

This seem to be very an interesting campaign and historical too (don't forget that Ptolies never managed to conquer seleucid lands)
You should continue to play in VH for campaign setting and maybe reduce battle to medium .

Ah, but your forget Ptolemy III. After Berenike (sister, if I remember correctly, and second wife of Seleukid king) was killed by Laodike (first wife, and mother of next Seleukid king), Ptolemy III, having just taken over sole reign from his father, swore revenge. He invaded Syria, took Antioch, and then according to a single inscription he retook Ptolemaic lands as far as Persis, ie, most of the Seleukid empire.

Ptolemy III, however, did not have the forces to maintain the conquests AND keep the peace at home (this was presumably what drew him back to Egypt, we don't really know), so he relinquished the conquests. The campaign brought about an influx of settler soldiers (heavy recruitment, presumably), which is clearly manifest in the papyrological record, and also explains the presence of four thousand four thousand Galatians and Thracians by the time Raphia rolled around.

Its just too bad the histories of this campaign are gone, at least as far as I know.

EDIT: Actually, here's a preliminary translation of a tablet recovered from Babylonia:
http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicl...my_iii_01.html