GCS Campaign - Seleucid Problem

[nuragus]

Hi,

First, I would like to say many thanks to all people who develop this amazing RTW MOD.

I have played GCS campaign about one month, one faction that I think very difficult to deal with is: SELEUCID!

Their lands are VAST, their military power just getting better each turn, and looks like they have some sacred source of endless money.

I think the victory condition only need me to capture Antioch, and Damascus, but by doing only that, those Seleucid people are never give-up in re-taking their cities, and even worse, after they take it back from me, they exterminate the population, bah!

Anybody success with seleucid?

I am playing M/M

Thanks a lot

[Zarax]

Hi nuragus, are you sardinian?
Many people had success doing a scorched earth campaign aganst anthioch and seleucia.
Financing baktria and parthia could also take some heat off your back.

[DrwHem]

i tink the Seleucid are just overpowered. if you leave them alone they quickly dominate the entire eastern theater. and the GCS when controlled by AI is wiped out in about 2 turns. maybe its time for a rebalance? i generally use cheat codes to keep the seleucids bankrupt when i play. that way they dont grow too fast.

[nuragus]

@Zarax:
I'm playing as Greek-City-States.

Maybe my advance to Seleucid was too late. After I raise the curtain (Fog of War), thier land is very vast.

Baktria and parthia already gone, Saba is very weak (2 cities), and ptolemaic is Seleucid's ally.

Looks like my main army will stay in the desert for long...

[Total Roach]

Hi nuragus, just thought I'd show some solidarity, I'm also playing a GCS campaign on M/M and have run into a mighty TSE. It has taken 30 odd years for me to reach Antioch and during everyone of those 60 odd turns I worked the average dead of the TSE has been approx 3000 which equates to 180000 dead during that time, and they keep coming, 2-3 stacks appearing on my territory and borders every turn. Unlike your game however, TSE has wiped out the Ptolemaic Empire and the Eastern Kingdoms and now controls Egypt, I managed a sneak attack on a rebel Cyrene and continue to hold it, in the next few turns I will be sending 2 groups to take Alexandria and Memphis, hoping that will divide TSE's attention so I can make lightning attacks on weakly held nearby cities. As you can see from the screenshot, TSE is concentrating everything on me, it made an alliance with Pontus and got ceasefires with Parthia and Bactria. How it managed that I don't know, if a human player asked for a ceasefire the other faction would just laugh and say "we see no need to end the fighting just yet" *************aargh. Anyway I haven't dared lift the fog of war yet as I don't want to know how difficult the task ahead will be, but I have beaten the campaign before, so I can do it again

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[silentsam74]

Hi nuragus, just thought I'd show some solidarity, I'm also playing a GCS campaign on M/M and have run into a mighty TSE. It has taken 30 odd years for me to reach Antioch and during everyone of those 60 odd turns I worked the average dead of the TSE has been approx 3000 which equates to 180000 dead during that time, and they keep coming, 2-3 stacks appearing on my territory and borders every turn. Unlike your game however, TSE has wiped out the Ptolemaic Empire and the Eastern Kingdoms and now controls Egypt, I managed a sneak attack on a rebel Cyrene and continue to hold it, in the next few turns I will be sending 2 groups to take Alexandria and Memphis, hoping that will divide TSE's attention so I can make lightning attacks on weakly held nearby cities. As you can see from the screenshot, TSE is concentrating everything on me, it made an alliance with Pontus and got ceasefires with Parthia and Bactria. How it managed that I don't know, if a human player asked for a ceasefire the other faction would just laugh and say "we see no need to end the fighting just yet" *************aargh. Anyway I haven't dared lift the fog of war yet as I don't want to know how difficult the task ahead will be, but I have beaten the campaign before, so I can do it again

I've been there as well. It took me many years to gain traction against TSE playing as Bactria. Stack after stack and it just got better once they got their forge temples, foundries, and barrack tech up. The only thing more awesome than stacks of phalangites and thorakitai are stacks of all gold agyraspid phalangites. Even once I made headway against them they weren't getting weaker. I was getting stronger but just chasing their tail. Because as I eventually carved territories away from the eastern border the western border kept expanding as they eliminated the Ptolemies.