This will also make your expansion otherwise more challenging and strategic in nature (e.g. If you rush that victoy your campaign will indeed be missing its essential ingredient. If you find it all too easy then rather than avoiding war with the grey blob, make sure that conflict with the Seleucids happens but try to only fight it defensively around Jerusalem and on the high seas. By turn 100 I was rolling on 15k/ turn with 6 full armies on the field. Royal peltasts outclass even late tier infantry. Tech unitil you can get royal peltasts with citizen cavalry. You cant go wrong with most unit combos because most of their units are decent, but of course specialize your armies, dont just throw random units. Conquer the province where jerusalem is at and make it your military powerhouse. If no one else has declared war on you, expand south, then east.Įgypt's roster is varied and balanced. Do not rely on initial egyptian infantry, you will lose all your battles with it, I suggest slingers instead. Try to establish as much trade as you can for a steady income (this applies to all playable factions). Then send out two single ship fleets to encounter all factions around the mediterrean all the way to north europe. Start by conquering to the west your initial default enemies. Their potential in warfare against the other successor states is also impressive, and an aggressive Pharaoh could well expand Egypt's boundaries far beyond the Nile valley.Just finished an egypt campaign on vh myself. The Ptolemaic Pharaohs hold together a formidable kingdom and must be seen as a major power in the Eastern Mediterranean. All the succeeding Pharaohs have been called Ptolemy, and their sisters (more often than not) Cleopatra in the Egyptian fashion.Įgypt, therefore, is a rich land under the new Pharaohs and a centre of learning for the Greek world. The Ptolemaic dynasty adjusted rapidly to Egyptian ways and adopted the royal ways of the Pharaohs - including divine status and marriage between the Pharaoh and his sister in each generation. It is now ruled by Greek Pharaohs, the descendants of Ptolemy I, one of Alexander's able generals.
The Diadochi could only hold together to fragments of Alexander's empire.Įgypt was one part of that empire and by anyone's standards it is an ancient land. After his death, the mighty empire crumbled into pieces as his generals struggled against each other for the ultimate prize that none of them was quite strong enough to gain.
Egypt is a playable faction in Total War: Rome Remastered.Īlexander the Great created the largest empire the world had ever seen.