More than a weak tendency?

[Zaknafien]

Here's a screen from my latest 81 campaign.

This shot is 212 BCE

[Tellos Athenaios]

From my point of view: it's just a matter of tossing a coin really. In all my campaigns in which I was not the Seleukids (they're one of my favourites, together with KH) they ended up being eaten in the east by Parthians... At the moment I'm taking a different aproach playing as AS then I normally do. Instead of going on the "wipe out the Yellow" Egypt journey, I decided to make peace with all Diadochi enemies immediately and kill of all of the Eleutheroi I would be able to. Since then the Ptolemies have yet to conquer their first bit, but then again I'm only by 268 B.C.

Currently the nasty Ptolemies keep trying to bribe Pergamon unsuccesfully from me. And they've allied with Pahlava, plus made peace with anyone else... so I'm in for a two front war I believe. I love it!

EDIT: Stupid fool I am, of course the Seleukids are way stronger than the Ptolemies are. Someone else, I believe it was Bozos, mentioned in another thread that each faction gets 1.2 K for each settlement under it's control a turn + an additional amount in the first few turns. So it's not that surprising really if others see the Seleukids beating the crap out of everyone nearby, or at least the Ptolemies.