1st: the cavalry really took a hit in terms of their effectiveness- one of my fully replenished generals parthian royal cataphracts can't even beat 3 crap javelin groups on their own with all the battle buffs (inspire, deadly charge, war cry on enemies) during an ambush

2nd: the ai is spamming armies on an industrial scale on hard difficulty and they're not even starving. For example I was parthia and I surrounded baktria and took their back city leaving them with only their capital baktra. Yet they could still feed and sustaiin about 2 full stacks, 1 stack 75% full and 2 half-stacks. and these stacks are literally just sitting around the city making it impossible for me to touch them. In fact all the ai factions, even my allies with one province have ridiculous numbers of full stacks that put me to shame. Didn't the vanilla game make it so these armies starve at the very least, I'm sure this mod fixed that to make the AI better but now they're back to spamming without drawbacks.