Quote Originally Posted by A_Dane View Post
In any case, I really hope something is being done about the elite stack spamming
That's impossible to prevent from with the RTW engine but pretty simple with the M2TW one, thanks to the replenish rate. That way we can allow, for example, the Seleucids to raise elite pikeman in every town, but only one every five years or so. This makes important battles much more decisive because it can destroy an army that the enemy would need many years, if not decades, to replace.

With the RTW engine the AI is able to raise a new unit of elites every turn in each town that has them. This means when you had crashed a stack with 10 elite phalanxes the AI would be able to replace that stack before you would be able to conquer the next town.