Provincial "Defender" Generals/Stacks

[Vexillari]

I'm new to EB and playing as Romani. I've run across a killer stack of Eleutheroi led by a pretty hateful general who has the status of "Iuevaeotum Defender". I won the (costly) battle but the very next turn, the stack and formerly dead general were reborn. I'm assuming this is part of the developers way of discouraging non-historic expansion and denying my general the ability to bathe in the gold from the mines in the province...

I'm wondering if there will come a point where the stack/general will NOT be reborn? If not, can anyone suggest strategy for simultaneously dealing with the immortal stack and the city defenders?

Thanks

[Pharnakes]

Use two or three stacks, and take artillery?

[Divine Wind]

Use two or three stacks, and take artillery?

You can recruit artillery with the Romani? I haven't got that far yet since I restarted my campaign. I'm currently 20 years away from Polybian.

[antisocialmunky]

I thought you could merc them from Southern Italy.

[Conradus]

or highest level local MIC in some Greek cities to train 20-mina throwers?

[Strategos Alexandros]

Syracuse you can. I don't know any others though.

[Maeran]

or highest level local MIC in some Greek cities to train 20-mina throwers?

Has anyone actually done this? I tried in the last build to do this in Syracuse and Athens, with no success. As such, I am now in 200 BC with my entire artillery capability resting on a unit of arrow throwers (ballistae then) that I managed to bribe at great expense.

Pretty useless, but I am holding onto them in the hope that they well be worth it in my impeding war against the overly aggressive Koinen Hellonen.

[Thaatu]

You'll need to take the province, if I recall correctly. You'll have to use multiple legions.