As we all know, the AI Ptolemies faction is unbalanced at the moment in EB 1.0 due to a couple of their units being near-invincible in auto-calc battles, and they take over the eastern half of the world unless the human player stops them.

I was wondering how other people are managing to live with this.

For myself, for long campaigns, I've resorted to playing factions who almost never have to fight the Ptolemies throughout the campaign - the northern and western barbarian factions like the Casse, Aedui, Arveni, Sweboz and Lusotanns.

And usually, these barbarian factions are fighting enemies who themselves aren't too greatly affected by the Ptolemies, so I'm not fighting enemies who the Ptolemies have 'unrealistically' over-weakened.

Or I'll play short campaigns with the other factions (except for the Seleucids) that end once the Ptolemies start taking over.

What do you do?