Screw it, i give up. I'm never playing as Hayasdan again. As soon as i loaded the game up to continue taking rebel cities the Seleukids sent a half-stack right at my capital. I defeated them and was left with no choice but to retrain and take the fight to the Seleukids with my army of 3 units of spearmen and 1 archers. Funnily enough, i took a Seleukid town just below Phraaspa, exterminated it and raised everything and had myself a lovely 30k in the bank. Great right?

No, wrong. At that point the grey bastards laid siege to my capital with another half stack. Completely undefended as i had to use all my troops to take the Seleukid city. So, i hire a mercenary army with my 30 grand and begin the march back to my home territories. By this time my capital is lost and i'm -20,000 in debt because it takes 30 turns to march from one city to another. My capital is defended by an army with over 5 units of good phalangites and the rest of the stack made up of mercenary heavy hoplites and axemen and other lovely units i just can't afford... So, 50k in debt i decide that even if i took my capital back it would take me over 40 turns to get out of debt, all the while the Seleukids would be pounding away at me, so i decided to just give up.

I am never, ever playing as the Hayasdan again, and in my next campaign i'm going to destroy the Seleukids and exterminate and raise every single city they own. Especially their capital... I'm going to exterminate it twice.