Pahlava, 236 BC, H/M, BI-exe. Update from my last post.
I got the Late Bodyguards literally the turn right before a major confrontation with the AS where I had planned to shoot-n-crush with the early FMs. Instead I found I had no arrows but nigh-invincible FMs. It turned out to be what I needed as I won a hard-fought battle against roughly 10 times as many men by plowing forward and killing their goes-down-remarkably-easy FM. I never thought I'd see the day a pike line was broken by a frontal attack but that is precisely what I did. marched my FMs in, and over, the phalanxes, at which point they switched off pikes and the domination began. I lost far more to the thousands of heavy arches and peltasts but once I got the FM it was a bunch of rout-n-kill.
Its actually almost 227 BC and the only changes are that I have taken the Indian provinces and the AS took Sulek. Plus they wiped out Pontos and own all of Mikra Asia minus the one Ptolemaic holding.
Speaking of Mellow Yellow they have refused to take advantage of the AS trying to fight me. In fact they signed a peace with them but the the AS resurgence in Mikra Asia it is now a state of constant skirmishing between them (ie War dec, Diplo peace, lather, rinse, repeat). I expect them to get thoroughly owned when the diplomat keeping them alive dies. Every time I check the AS is continually re-sieging at least 3 cities with superior forces. I'm trying to wait until the AS conquers Egypt to continue my war against them, especially as they have not launched a single attack against me in almost ten years.
Pontus is dead by Silver hands. The Hai are going nowhere slowly it seems. Not even able to muster an expedition into the steppe. Saba seem stuck. Getai are slowly gaining ground on the Samartians. Maks/Epeiros are locked in a stalemate. KH is reduced to Pantikopaion (after this pic). Maks took Crete from Ptolies then signed peace. Saka sitting around acknowledging the fact that they can't fight me. Carthage biding its time. Luso being Luso. Same with the Casse. The Arveni better hope the Rome/Aedui war drags on and lets them rebound. Rome had all of Italy then Taras revolted back to Epeiros. They've basically left it alone. Sweboz will probably ruin someone's day soon.
One question though: since it seems that the only proper gov't I can make is Reformed Parthian, why does Pahlava still have Homeland/Subjugation/Outlying markers?