Can any outbest me?

Ha! I laugh at your armoured cavalry. HA! See. I laugh again!

Elephants do fairly well against them but one way I have beaten them is to send two armies at once at them. Then have a third or fourth ready to keep them on their heels. They are expensive armies to maintain and can be a draw back when playing someone like me who can laugh in the face of such danger.

u get 20 cataphract army and i'd *beep* go huddle up in the towns or *beep* take u down before u got the chance to make them. thats the thing about selucids, they suck early game.

i tried a scenario with 20 fully gold experienced cataphract cavalry against my 10 armoured hoplite silver experienced phalanxes complete with 4 archers and 2 skirmisher and 4 greek cavalry units. instead of trying to attack u, i defend and made a massive circle where my phalanxes bravely hold the line while my projectile units inflict morale dropping casualties. it was hard to make the cataphracts route cause even though one unit routed, the others stayed steady: thats wut gold experience does. my greek cavalry chased down your fleeing troops to make sure that none of them came back and they were fast enough to avoid ur other cavalry. the best damage that cataphracts inflict is when they charge, and when they charge into spearmen their attack is reflected back onto them so :P. long battle and i lost a couple of phalanxes but i held the line and nme ends up retreating. so there.
u need to play against people, not AI.
if u get horse archers, i play egyptians cause they have the best archers and pretty good phalanxes as well.