Lost with Pontos

I had only conquered about 4 cities around my starting city when the Ptolemaioi broke their alliance with me and allied with the AS and Macedon, it seemed like hells gates opened to my Pontans!

well for the next 40 turns I fought for my existance, I was surprised to actually be able to withstand the enemy armies for that time, the first 4 years I was even able to keep them off my cities and only fought field battles ( at that time it was only the AS and the Ptolemaioi fighting me) and then the Macedonians joined they sent 1 full stack at the same time as the Ptolemaioi did, also the AS came with half a stack that turn, so I cleared all my cities apart from my starting city and just about got together on stack, ( this all may seem unrealistick but as I lost lost many troopes at each battle I had started mass producing soldiers ready to die) I fought my last battle on the field as well and lost miserably due to being outnumbered, at least my king and all my family members died heroic deaths.

A similar thing happened in my Hayasdan campaign just that I was bigger and after that first set back I reconquered the land they took of me ( didnt loose with Hayasdan)