So I'm assuming i'm playing too high a difficulty, because i'm kind of starting to get irritated.
VH/VH as Baktria, and i'm noticing that fighting against nomads is illustrating how much I hate fighting a siege against them.
Same thing has happened to me in Third age Divide and conquer vs the variags, but to a lesser degree, but i'm noticing that entire units are getting decimated at the walls by the archer cavalry, lost like 100 hoplitai in like 5 minutes, with 2 other archer units and that 3 units of Pandotapoi Phalangitai with 2 units of veted Regalin can't really hold up against 8 cavalry units charging through the main gate, because of the massive blob charging that happens, even though the majority of the cavalry are sarmaritian skirmishers and daha archers, with no heavy cav. Kind of weird that a horse army to be the most effective way to storm a city.
Thing is though, I was not finding anything wrong with this difficulty so far, as I've been successfully holding off the Pahlavan, by keeping an army of mercenary cavalry to ambush sieging armies in Bukharak, I've defeated like 4 stacks and killed their Faction leaders two or three times.
Against the Taksashila, I've taken two of their cities in the north, including their former capital and basically had no issues fighting against them, although I did get lucky once, with the AI timing out during battle and loosing a City garrison.
And I defeated two armies of the saka to the north, and they haven't bothered me since.
So, Is the Arrows of death something out of me playing VH, or is it just a fluke and I should just avoid them next time I play.