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[Ice]

Well then, good luck!

Lol, I got destroyed on VH/M. I'm retrying M/M.

[noosh]

Hayasdan is a lot of fun. Essentially you have almost no money and as soon as you capture 2-3 slave towns that are your neigbhours the Selucids will try to destroy you. But fortunately you have access to Horse Archers so even though he has pretty beefy phalanax troops you can, through superior tactics, really make a lot of Heroic victories...I've been playing, until a stupid CTD at the gates of Selucid capital, for a bout a day and it is quite enjoyable. Especially when you run into a bunch of pikemen and your HA just chew them up.

[Musopticon?]

Try Casse.

Full-stacked Eleutheroi towns can be really ominous when you have just Ictis and Cassemorg(or whatever it's called in 0.8) and can only afford a halfstack before going to debt.

I made a couple of back-up saves, just in case it wasn't a good idea to start building an army in 260 BC' autumn. Hell, nearly a half stack of Botroas, along with 6 units of Cemmerhain, two units of Cwmer and some Gaeroas facing my meagre 5 Iosatae, 2 generals, 6 Botroas, 5 Gaeroas and some straggling levies to fill in as ram-holders/garrison...feels like a big massacre coming on. Especially if(read: when) Ratae sallies.

Then again, I'm playing on H/M.

I guess I'll try the good old "run like hell and hope they don't go after the slingers"-tactic. Or the little bolder "run like hell to the gate and chock it full before everyone comes out and hope for the best"-strategy. That worked with Ictis well enough, even though I was seriously outnumbered and facing a 7-starred monster Governor without a General.
First time a suicide-run has turned into a shining victory for me.