Missile troops are very good against their phalanx troops, just sit there with your archers and soften them up. Build a good garrison in antioch and head either west or east to rampage through the seleucid lands. Then you'll either decide to attack the seleucids or you'll be attacked by them!!įirst take damascus, if you want you can slaughter/massacre the population to free up your army from garrison duty, this is a highly mobile war! Then head for antioch, divide and conquer baby!! Their settlements are now separated from each other.
If you want you can now take a break and build up your cities, for a couple of years. Never, EVER trust the seleucids they are treacherous bastards and their word means nothing!! Do this with the numidians in lybia with the diplomat that is provided for you. Don't worry because they are all rebel towns Also build a diplomat in jerusalem and send it to dumatha(long way) to obtain trade rights and alliance from parthia. Once you take one over, enslave them and build 1-2 peasant units, then keep going. The numidians are very passive they will never betray u. The first thing you want to do is take all your good troops in alexandria, memphis and thebes and build and army to take petra, bostra, and palmyra in quick succession.
