Ptolemaioi

[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