In Every single campaign game for RTR I have, without exception, the Seleucid Empire swallows up every surrounding faction, 100% guaranteed to swallow Pontus, 40% guaranteed to swallow Armenia, 80% guaranteed to swallow Parthia, 20% guaranteed to swallow Bactria, 60% guaranteed to swallow Egypt, even some small percentages guaranteed to swallow Macedon and Greece!!!
This is utterly ridiculous! I don't care how the Seleucid Empire was in real life, if they were truly as strong as RTR makes them out to be, they'dve conquered the world, no contest. Not even Rome can counter them (in my battles, two Roman legions absolutely can NOT defeat a single stacked Seleucid army) (I'm playing VH/VH each time, sometimes H/H)
Is there ANYTHING I can do to stop them? I've been doing some furious and intense cheating (involving auto_win and process_cq cities close to Seleucid territory) and STILL they come at me with stack after stack of Hoplites virtually invulnerable to pila or javelin, and virtually invulnerable from all sides except the back, which you can't even reach with cavalry because they have elephants or chariots to smush your cavalry.
EVEN WORSE, if I DO bring my cavalry in, if they don't smother the Hoplites IMMEDIATELY, the Hoplites TURN AROUND, AIM THEIR SPEARS AT THE CAVALRY, COMPLETELY IGNORING THE LEGIONARIES ATTACKING THEM
I'm going to repeat:
And UTTERLY DESTROY MY CAVALRY and then, this is a big one: This only happens if my cavalry aren't retrained with at least BRONZE or SILVER weapon upgrades and at least THREE bronze experience stripes and attack from at LEAST THREE HUNDRED FEET BACK at FULL SPEED, otherwise the cavalry get butchered no matter what The Hypaspi-somethings--the little spearmen and swordsmen--have absolutely no weaknesses! They aren't easily routed by cavalry when attacked from behind, they aren't easily picked off by arrows, they aren't easily crushed by chariots or elephants, they aren't easily taken out by Hoplites or legionaries, they're pretty much invulnerable with regards to critical hits. Not even legionaries are this powerful (legionaries are easily taken out from behind and from arrows/javelin) This is too ridiculous each time I see it. The Seleucids also seem to be mocking me, as when I face them off in an EVEN MATCH with two of my legions against one of theirs (my reinforcements get delayed, due to the army sizes too big for teh comp to handle) the Seleucids, no matter where they are in the campaign map, start off all the way at the edge in an effed up angle, then run away from the battle, utterly wasting my time! Is there ANYTHING I can do to edit to make the Seleucids weaker short of disabling half their units and increasing their cost so they're more expensive?!
IGNORING
THE LEGIONARIES
ATTACKING THEM
FROM THE FRONT
PS: I know in history the Seleucids were powerful, but were torn apart by internal strife and being too large to protect all borders, but I don't believe that BS is the whole story. Plus, the Seleucids in my game have absolutely no trouble with the multiple borders at all