@IsaacCAT
Yeap the AI Seleucids actually do get themselves into a lot of wars. The main thing is to leave them get dragged into it fully, have a good ally and mercs and hit them hard with your cav spreading out in all directions as they're large and defenceless, you're offensive forces will distract them from sieging Atropatene lands and they'll be running around their own empire senselessly, hopefully meaning Atropatene player won't lose any pops. Sack Macedonian cities but not median or persian ones.
Atropene has a good economy so it's good to use that as a merc treasury and to also get a good merc general. Wait till Seleucids get into one of their many wars and split archers into sieging forces (low attrition) and cavalry into non fort capital capturing forces as well as a distraction for AI armies it works really well. I also find it's important not to actually fight battles unless you can isolate small seleucid forces and lead Bactria away from Atropatene if possible.
Edit: also managed to fix the culture happiness by giving rights, religious tech, omen power. I'm going for 'major syncretism' in the religious tree also and hopefully that will basically end unrest throughout the empire for unintegrated pops and I can grant more rights to my integrated cultures. I might also integrate more like the Macedonians for heavy infantry, the Armenians and Assyrians. I like the idea of a thousand nations of the Persian empire descending upon Greece.
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Yeap the AI Seleucids actually do get themselves into a lot of wars. The main thing is to leave them get dragged into it fully, have a good ally and mercs and hit them hard with your cav spreading out in all directions as they're large and defenceless, you're offensive forces will distract them from sieging Atropatene lands and they'll be running around their own empire senselessly, hopefully meaning Atropatene player won't lose any pops. Sack Macedonian cities but not median or persian ones.
Atropene has a good economy so it's good to use that as a merc treasury and to also get a good merc general. Wait till Seleucids get into one of their many wars and split archers into sieging forces (low attrition) and cavalry into non fort capital capturing forces as well as a distraction for AI armies it works really well. I also find it's important not to actually fight battles unless you can isolate small seleucid forces and lead Bactria away from Atropatene if possible.
Edit: also managed to fix the culture happiness by giving rights, religious tech, omen power. I'm going for 'major syncretism' in the religious tree also and hopefully that will basically end unrest throughout the empire for unintegrated pops and I can grant more rights to my integrated cultures. I might also integrate more like the Macedonians for heavy infantry, the Armenians and Assyrians. I like the idea of a thousand nations of the Persian empire descending upon Greece.
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