The Seleucids

[konny]

when i'm playing the romans and have half the empire i have now i can build multiple defence and offense armies while still builing up my economy. its just not fair... i'm the friggin basileus of the world !!!

Sea trade makes the difference. With the Romans all your towns have access to the sea and have sufficent trading partners all around, either other towns of yours or big foreign cities like Carthage. For example, with Taras alone you will make some 2,000 mne in trading short after conquest.

With the Seleucids most of your towns are midland or along coasts where no good trading partners are around. From an economic point of view you should concentrate on the West: Secure all around the Aegean including the islands. With the mines and the sea trade you will make enough money to run your empire.

[Dhampir]

Sea trade makes the difference. With the Romans all your towns have access to the sea and have sufficent trading partners all around, either other towns of yours or big foreign cities like Carthage. For example, with Taras alone you will make some 2,000 mne in trading short after conquest.

With the Seleucids most of your towns are midland or along coasts where no good trading partners are around. From an economic point of view you should concentrate on the West: Secure all around the Aegean including the islands. With the mines and the sea trade you will make enough money to run your empire.

Is trade really that profitable? I have never actually noticed one way or the other.

[konny]

Is trade really that profitable? I have never actually noticed one way or the other.

Just take a look on the trade details page of your sea cities: you often make more money by trade in these cities than by tax.

[mAIOR]

I think that should be fixed no? I mean historically the Seleucids weren't exactly short of money aigh?


Cheers...

[konny]

Must not be fixed IMHO. The Seleucids had serious domestic problems throughout their entire regin that cannot be displayed with the RTW engine. So beeing short of money is the best way to create an empire in EB that is looking much stronger than it is.

[mAIOR]

Didn't thought of it that way... Well, it can always be displayed by the low public order and all. I haven't played extensivly with them in 1.0 but in .80 Once I started to make money it was like exponential afterwards... It was amazing really and I was able to field the "nicer" units...

Cheers...