What to do against the Seleucids...

[Tuuvi]

kinda of topic, but once in a .74 pontic campaign I accidentaly went to war with the seleucids early on in the game. I sent a diplomat to get a ceasefire but they wouldn't accept, so on a whim I demanded that they became my protectorate, and they accepted. I never worried about them after that.

[Moros]

@Dumuzi: IT depens on the settlement and the governer traits. It's mainly a good idea in the start when you have more generals than settlements.

@Lignator: lol!

[Subedei]

Playing Bactria in one of my campaigns I try to deal with Seleucids as follows:

- try to get an alliance with Ptholemaians [sp?] (Egypt), Macedonia, Konion, and pretty much all the neighbors of the seleucids [as far as possible, you won´t get all of them]
- send spies to the Near East and check when heavy conflicts break out there [with Egypt or the Macedonians], as this will focus their attention on the Western part of their vast empire
- plaster your way into their Empire with spies to check their supply routes [evtl. place some HA there to cause a little bit of distortion] and try to get some cities as soon as a war breaks outi n the West
- build those cities up as sonn as possible [walls, streets & army staff]
- the above emntioned [esp. HA against phalanx units work fine for me]

[Moros]

Also one thing I forgot to mention. You can make their settlements have less public order by putting your spies in them. This way you can mek them rebel and then steal their settlements without a war declaration. Or with a different army inside of them.

[quende]

I'm also playing as the Hayasad, on H/H and had a major problem with them in the start. Me and Pontos fought against them, but the Seleucids just crushed Pontos and took over their lands. Leaving me alone to fight against them (Ptolemy being allied and friends of the Selesucids).

The only that saved me from the fate of Pontus was my mines, and the tactics mentioned with faster archers and horses to separate and pin down and crush one phalanx at time. I specially hated the charaprakts (spelling) and more heavy phalanxes they have thrown at my forces.

It's hard, but it's a pleasure every time I manage to take a town from them. (Just kicked them out of asia minor after 20-30 years of constant warfare). One thing to do is to recruit mercenary troops in asia minor and other parts that has better infantry than the Hai to work as stoppers for the most heavy units and hit them hard in the back with a horse. I'm hoping to get decent infantry when I'm built out the local training centers in asia minor.

Quende