Quote Originally Posted by Danest
The Ptolemies didn't expand into the Seleucid empire in real history, is that right? What happened in history to keep them from snapping up this collapsing empire, or from conquering or being conquered by Carthage? (all of which seems to have a high probability of happening in the game).
The Ptolemaic military went in to decline before the Seleukid one and when the Seleukid empire did begin to collapse, the Ptolemies had enough internal troubles to keep them occupied from invading the Seleukids.
As for Carthage, as Watchman says the terrain between the lands was not so favourable, however there also seems to have been a friendly relationship between the two empires.