Im playing as hayasdan and have been waging a war with the Seleucids for the past 15 years. It is enjoyable to see the seleucids actually be aggressive and continue to send armies, even stealthily through the hills where I cant see them! I love what you've done with Hayasdan btw.
The Seleucids are also at war with Baktria, The Ptolemies, and Pontos but after checking everyone's map information none of their armies are attacking so yea

Anyway back to the point of this thread. Fighting against the Seleucids with their generals and phalanxes make for amazingly hard battles. Each family member tends to have between 60 and 100 body guards and, thanks to their amazingly high defense and legit attack, are nearly invincible. In one battle from last night, I surrounded one of these units with 2 medium armenian cav, each with 2 chevrons of exp, and my own general, 4 chevrons. Each medium was at full strength with my general at 48 guys. The seleucid family member slaughtered both units of mediums down about 3 men wherein they routed, and brought my own general down to 12 men. When the first medium routed, I sent in 3 units of spearmen to attack the general. He routed one of these as well before he was overwhelmed. This general had 1 chevron of exp, had to have been hit by negative morale traits because he'd been chasing my guys between towns to stop me from invading, and was completely surrounded. My own men were confident troops and all of that.

The same goes for the Seleucid Phalanxes. The Pez... whatever and the Ag... whatever are just about invincible. I usually have a panzy unit of spearmen distract their front while I'll pelt the phalanx with slingers or archers from behind. This works for other factions but against the seleucids... The Pez will probably lose about 60 men from 3 units of slingers using their entire stock and the Ag lose like one or two per volley, if Im lucky. Even getting smashed into from behind with my heavy cavalry barely hurts these guys.

One last thing i noticed, cataphract archers for the armenians have a worse attack than medium cavalry. I dont know if this was meant to show that they were slowed because of their armor but their attack is a 3, medium starts at 6 I believe. I just thought they should be a little more intimidating once they were in the fray instead of having to rely on them charging in and out. I know this is the point, the charge bonus for the cats, but even so.