Pahlava guide requested

[LordCurlyton]

Yes, use spies and more spies. You should be able to quickly balance your budget, especially if you give NIsa the mine resource it should have. I managed to keep at least one spie in almost every eastern Seleukid city and they had to constantly shuffle troops around to keep the peace and thus couldn't focus on me. And as revolts started occurring next to my territories I would swoop in and take the rebel settlements. After a while you can outright buy a Selukid province that is in revolt from the AS for roughly 7-10k a pop. Using this strategem, and with the timely declaration of war between the Baktrians and AS, I managed to keep the peace with the Seleukids for almost 40 years, and allowed to me to thoroughly crush the Baktrians when the AS requested military aid from me. The AS only declared war after I finally took Persepolis when it revolted for the 4th or 5th time.
Rather than buying Pez mercs, stick with the Pantodopai Phalangitai that will be available almost everywhere in Regional MIC 2. They are more sturdy than the infantry you'll get faction-wise, but the Iranian Archer-Spearmen are some awesome support troops, as well as Shuban Fradashkana. Your basic HA will carry you a LONG ways, and you have access to several good melee cavs of medium and high quality, so there is no cavalry or infantry threat that can't be dealt with. I broke Baktria's Pezheteraioi line with Pahlava Shivatir and Denbed Asavara, with only 3 Pant Phalangs to distract them (I don't believe they actually locked horns with the Pez, but I know they tussled briefly with Baktria's light inf and archers when the AI got desperate).

[Tristuskhan]

especially if you give NIsa the mine resource it should have.

cool, the concept seems fine, but the question is: how to do that?

[LordCurlyton]

cool, the concept seems fine, but the question is: how to do that?

This thread would be the way to victory, young grasshopper. Verrruh useful, however you'll need to start a new campaign for it to work.

[mAIOR]

I just took the seleucids Head-on (rather they took me :p) like a real man should (j/k). I ended up winning with 4 heroic victories and one defeat on the field and 3 sucessfull sieges. That means 3 new cities for me :) hurra!! Of course, make peace with Baktria and try to ally as they tend to prefer crushing the AS wich divides the AS in two fronts (on your side at least as usually Pontus Armenia and the Ptolies are busy giving a go at the rest.).

Use your generals and HA to full effect. they can kill everything the AS throws at you easily. Just keep charging their backs and eventually they'll start to rout. Use your HA to harass and divide their armies (you'll need to do this) and then use all your units the destroy their armies piece by piece.


Cheers...