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Getic Front:
Seized the Getic Capital, and am currently sieging the surrounding towns.
They eliminated my first wave attacks with ease, killing two of my best generals in the process.
They failed to prepare properly for my second wave, which was much more powerful in terms of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry.

Eastern Front:
The Pontic and Seleucid Fronts have been merged, as they are effectively the same fight at this stage.
Ancrya is under siege from a reasonably large Pontic army, but is filled to the brim with levy phalanx units to the point that it won't fall. Army building continues in Ionia, Lydia and Pergamon.

The Mesopotamian Expedition was defeated after lasting five years of constant assaults.
Three massive reinforcement armies that were sent from Macedonia by ship were ambushed and took heavy casualties in the desert, finally arriving in Fertile Cresent depleted. After losing Babylon, the remaining forces lasted a further year in Seleukia before being ousted.

The loss of these very expensive elite/merc mixed armies and the continued investment in mines resulted in a massive boost in income, which has allowed the largest military build up so far.

Western Front:
The Arverni, my allies, were defeated the season that has just past.
Aedui spies and assassins are stalking around the Po valley.
Fortunately for me, the Lusotann are friendly, and have cut the Aedui in two.

I expect an attack from either of them in the near future.
My investment in large defensive armies in Italy will pay large dividends, as Carthage is inactive and weak in Sicily, and the Aedui cities in northwest Italy are vunerable to attack.

Crimean Front:
Sarmatian invasion repulsed in 225BCE by horse archer armies mixed with some Macedonian medium & heavy cavalry. Invasion forces currently being built up at a steady rate to seize surrounding Sarmatian settlements. If successful, swinging west into the Getic Front, and east into the Eastern front, will be possible.

The Plan:
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Red dots represent major army groups, blue dots represent major steppe army groups.