Last night the Scythians were destroyed, probably by Pontus as one of their last two territories turned blue right before both of them turned gray.

I didn't win at the time because over the same end turn cycle, a few formerly Seleucid territories revolted. One Huge City cranked out a full stack gold armoured warriors, including elephants. The other cranked out a full stack of unarmored skirmishers (I had destroyed almost all buildings in that settlement). In about half a dozen turns since then, with four units of horse archers and 30+ heavy infantry with silver armor have destroyed at least that many Seleucid armies. What is hardest is that these were all isolated from any friendly armies, and no matter which way they go, there is a much larger (4X bigger) stack to go through.

Finally, they wore themselves out attacking my isolated army, and in one more turn they will be in one of my large cities to retrain.

What remains is that I have to take two more cities, either from Seleucids, or Rebels. Every city I've taken from them so far, I had to exterminate, and set taxes to low, and still they have revolted. For some reason, my income has been negative in the past 5 or 6 turns since the revolts, and before I can take any cities back, I need to retrain the units to do it.

I'll figure it out.

Strength and Honor

Celt Centurion