Well, this is a follow-up to my post from awhile back.



20 years have passed and though I did get the Saba to agree to a peace, it was short-lived. They waited right until I got bogged down in a war against Baktria, and then attacked my Arabian possessions. This may only be able to end with the conquest of the entire peninsula.

But good God, does it take a long time to get armies around Arabia. The last couple years against the Baktrians have been a stalemate just because half of my armies were marching their way down the Arabian desert.

The Ptolemies stuck to their peace, but unfortunately lost all their holdings to the hungry Baktrians who thought they could steamroll over my eastern possessions. The Carthaginians are being no kinder to them now that the Ptolemies are a strictly African faction. Libya and Upper Egypt are gone, so now all they have are Nubia and Ethiopia. I don't know how long it will be before the Carthaginians also decide I'm easy prey, but thankfully Alexandria and Memphis are two of my most well-populated well-armed fortresses. If they attack, I may be able to hold them off indefinitely.

I realize that since I've taken Anatolia from the Ptolemies all those years ago, Getic and Thracian troops have been rarities in my armies. My armies are vastly composed of Greeks, Persians and Caucasians with the occasional helping of Arabian cavalry and Celtic mercenaries.

Also it's weird how peaceful Western Europe and the Steppe have become.
Italy is still a mess. It's a three-way struggle between the Aedui, the Greeks and the Carthaginians.

If I can ever manage having more than a year or two of peace, I'll re-shift my focus on Eburonum and those other western objective I need to claim to win the game.