Ptolemaic Empire

**edyzmedieval** · 04-22-2006, 22:48

You want too much.

**Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom** · 04-22-2006, 23:25

First update on the Ptolemiac and Selucid war. Ive sent too massive, full stack armies to Anatolia to deal with the Selucids and have won one battle pushing them East. The only problem now is that they have about 2 full stack armies in Galatia, and are seigng three of my cities. I dont know if I should go for Selukia in the east, or head north towards their Backtrian provinces.
I agree with everyone about the Ptolemies, they are the best. As you get a taste of so many different units. My favorite being the Galatian Klerucho witha 28 defense, 38 charge bonus, Excellent morale (Ive only ever seen one unit, with only one-quarter men left, rout) , and 12 atack there killing machines. Fighting the Selucids is not teribly difficult but it is a very bloody type of fighting as they have very similair units so its mainly Phalanx lines Vs. Phalanx lines, with a constant flanking and anti-flanking stragedy. The only secret weapon style unit I have is my armored elaphants which, although are Mindbogglingly expensive and very tricky to use, can if charged into a bloody Phalanx match, easly turn the tables, and cause thother side too flee.

Still working on getting in some screenshots, could anybody tel me exactly how to do it??

**abou** · 04-22-2006, 23:52

That is what is great about elephants, and will be even better when the charge bug is fixed after the move to 1.5. If you can line up and lock your phalanx and the opposing phalanx together you can run elephants right through their entire line from the side.

enemy battle line ---------------------------- <- your elephants
your battle line -------------------------------

**edyzmedieval** · 04-22-2006, 23:53

Alt+ Print Screen.

For screenshots.

**Avicenna** · 04-23-2006, 12:03

You could always wait for them to advance into your phalanx line, while firing missiles into their ranks. It's easy to rout the first unit that arrives, then with their weakened morale it should be a shorter and pretty much bloodless battle. (for you anyway)

**paullus** · 04-23-2006, 13:20

But that's less valorous...besides, if you let them do all/most of the advancing, the chances of getting a really jagged enemy "phalanx" increase tremendously. I like to run mine the last bit of distance, then put the phalanx down just before contact. Makes a nice crash.

And yeah, the Ptolemies are awesome. So much unit diversity.

**Avicenna** · 04-24-2006, 08:23

That just makes it into two jagged phalanxes. The phalanx is best used in defence anyway, not in attack.

**paullus** · 04-24-2006, 14:14

I know you can wait for the Ai to incompetently wade into your pike tips, and lose maybe one man, but seeing as how this is a game and none of your wee phalangites actually die, I prefer to get a nice crash. And if you set them up correctly, it usually works really well as far as cohesion for both sides: you force the AI to be (partly) competent by meeting them in the middle. Seems much fairer to me than waiting for them to arrive exhausted and disordered from their march across the map.