Your strategies for storage of mercs are similar to mine. I hired Cretans by Salona and Appolonia, and I think Byzantium and Thessalonica as well, not quite sure about Thessalonica. I will look next time I am in my campaign. I want to say I have done it by Tarentum, but I am probably thinking Merc Hoplites, just something in the back of my mind that is probably confused with something else. That is not very hard. My mind is like a steel trap...once it snaps shut on something, I can't get it back open.

Anyway, I have taken the bite out of Greece (I think). Pontus is also about done. I lost a general because I was shelling enemy infantry while defending a town, and when I ran my general to take out the routing enemies, I forgot to tell the Onager to stop firing, and of course one of his projectiles hit my general, of all the men in the unit it could have hit. Onagers seem to home in on generals, and I am not the first one to say that on this forum.