Expeditionary Forces

[MerlinusCDXX]

I'm using expeditionary forces in my current Pontos game against the Ptolemies. I have a disloyal FM that I'm RPing as having been sentenced to exile. He only gets the units left when the actual commander of his army died (he was a cavalry wing commander, I always put disloyal FMs in a loyal FM's stack), plus mercenaries (I rp the treasury as the combined assets of the members of the "ruling class" ). I'm rampaging my way through Egypt with "Xerxes" (funny coincidence-he's also the conqueror of Athens), while my loyal generals lead defensive forces on the Ioudaia-Nile Delta border to blunt Ptolemaic attacks. Any settlements I take are given to my allies, the Saby'n (after a thorough sacking, though I leave a gov't bldg and any Semitic culture bldgs I find), I roleplay this as feeding the Saba information about the activities of my rogue general, which they act on. I only have 3 standing fullstack armies, 1 in Iran against the AS, 1 in Europe against Makedonia, and 1 on Defense against the Ptolemaioi, with a small (max half) stack "in training" in Anatolia, and a half stack garrison in Khersonesos. I'm hoping to buffer my border with Egypt so that I can obtain a ceasefire with the Ptolemaioi, as I'm not interested in ruling Egypt.