Between Egyptβs two recruitment efforts, from allowing Egyptians to join (3,000 twice) and from my propaganda campaign (5,000 once), I have acquired 11,000 new troops. These troops have been assembling at Alexandria and will move to Damietta to prevent any further Seleucid landings there. The 10,000-strong army in Alexandria will split in two. 5,000 will stay in Alexandria, and the other 5,000 will travel around farms in the Nile Delta and begin killing the Seleucid cavalry that are currently there.
My navy also begins preparing for the naval part of the war. I have 486 warships with access to the Mediterranean, between my navy and lent warships from Carthage. 50 are stationed in the Cyclades, I move 50 more. 100 warships are stationed at Damietta to prevent another landing. 150 warships travel to Cyprus and station off the island. The remaining 86 ships stay at Alexandria to await further orders.
So far, even on Hardest difficulty level (haven't tried Extreme yet), my AI opponents only remain on the initial island, which has no gold and no stone. Obviously this makes for easy, boring games. Does one of the AI versions actually try to expand on resource-rich islands?
