seleucids kicking ass

[dansta]

anyone else have the seleucids taking over half the world . im playing as saba and was happily consolidating my place in arabia and egypt and then a massive seleucid fleet comes and blockades all my ports. i managed to get rid of them after many turns and great debt and am now in the money again.
so i decided to toggle fow and found the seleucids with most of the east part of the map. im like ooooo crap...... dont get me wrong i think its pretty cool. i just wasnt expecting since the seleucids always get pwned in vanilla and now i have an enemy no sane man in my position would want lol

[Zarax]

Which version are you using?

Anyway, it can happen that the seleucids manages to hold the east, in that case they fully benefit of a big empire without a serious front in the back.
A mix of heavy spearmen, ethiopian axes and few chariots is the best answer to their rosters, however be prepared for a meatgrinder.

If things gets desperate take a few stacks across the desert and attack Carthage. No other enemy will follow you there and it's a safe base from which regrouping and regain the offensive.

[Scutarii]

What about the desert attrition thing I've heard about? Does that actually happen, or just some bogus findings?

[Zarax]

Desert attrition exists but unfortunately is buggy as hell.
It's randomly triggered like once every 50 turns, making it useless.