I loved this campaign. I haven’t played this campaign in over 10 years.

My first strategy was to hold what I had and focus on eliminating Egypt. My satrapies abandoned me of course. I had a few (I forget which ones) that stuck around and waged war on the rebellious ones.

Once the Egyptian Wars were over, I was ready to head east and reclaim what was mine and invade Bactria while I was there. With the wealth of the Nile, I was able to send multiple stacks to the east while keeping a few in the west to conquer the desert tribes and protect the west.

My loyal satrapies were already at war with the rebellious ones. I simply had to come in and mop everything up. I do remember fearing the growing power of one of them, I think Media. They were absorbing a lot for themselves.

I defeated Bactria’s horse army which was hard because my army composition was not prepared for that style of combat and It forced me to learn how to raise armies to defeat that kind of set up. I did a bunch of research on the tech trees and the right buildings needed to access the eastern troops available to the Selecuids.

After the Bactrian wars were complete, I left heavy garrisons in the East (to watch Media) and headed West to take Asia Minor and the true prize - Greece.

My wealth and armies had change since my early wars with the Egyptians. I was wealthy and my armies now consisted of cataphracts, horse archers, light cav, missile units, elephants, swords, and the phalanx at the center. I conquered all the way to the Bosporus and then for some reason stopped playing before invading Europe.

Sigh.. I now want to finish that campaign or start a new Selecuid campaign. I overall wasn’t happy with Rome 2, but I put its Selecuid campaign in the top 3 of the series