With the hordes of more advanced units that Egypt has the Seleucids will lose in autocalc. And the other thing the original poster is missing? Autocalc. Cataphracts may come a level earlier to nile cavalry but they are vulnerable to chariots.ĬountMRVHSExactly. Silver shield pikes and pharaohs guards are very similar stat wise, but pharaohs guards are only 160 men to 240 pikes. Armoured elephants might beat heavy chariots but they are so expensive that if you lose them it really hurts. IIRC egyptian heavy chariots are level 2 as well but they don't run amok and they are the size of a normal cavalry unit. Seleucid scythed chariots are level 2 but they are very prone to running amok. The Egyptian equivalent desert axemen are level 3. Seleucid silver sheild legions are level 5 barrack units.

So this means that Egypt can pump out full stacks and not drain the cities of man power.Īlso if you compare the Seleucid line up to the Egyptian you'll see that they have a distinct advantage. And you can't stop it cause they share a land border. Because Alexandria and Memphis both have the grain resource so they have massive popualtion growth because they feed each other. But in that very campaign, both Seleucia and Parthia were destroyed before I could even get an army down to Egypt to wipe them out before they threw their weight around.īottom line, it's not so much the coolness of the higher-end units, but the fact that you never see these units because Egypt (and Pontus) always always always destroy Seleucia and Parthia - or severely cripple them - within the first 40 turns.Īctually it's x2. Maybe BI has changed this and given the computer-controlled factions more incentive to train their best troops. You end up fighting these things very early in the game.īut how often have you gone up against Armenian Cataphract Archers? Seleucid Legionaires? Parthian Camel Cataphracts? Carthaginian Armoured Elephants? I saw Carthage crank out some Armoured Elephants and even some Sacred Band cav in my latest Scipii campaign (post-BI), and I felt absolutely thrilled - that sort of thing just doesn't happen very often. If you look at the highest-tier Egyptian units, you'll see that you recognize these guys. One of the frustrating things about the game - or most any game like it, to be fair - is that you never end up facing the AI's best troops. And if Seleucia ever *got* to that point, I would probably agree.

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