Conquest of Bithynia

In the summer of 268, Pyrrhos Aiakides (no relation to the famous king of Epirus) took the Pergamene army to Bithynia. After ravaging the communities around the Bithynoi capital, he laid siege to Nikaia itself.



Superior tactics and the skill of the Kretan archers carried the day, Nikaia was taken by storm and it's people enrolled in a new confederation of Greeks in Anatolia.



Editorial note

This was a surprisingly easy battle, mostly because the Kretan archers killed almost all the akontistai from outside the walls, then mauled all the other units. I'd killed more than a third of their force before the rams had even finished. Then their general died in the streets fighting my hoplites and FMs.

267BC:



Rome have already secured northern and southern Italy. Greece is a right old to-and-fro of warring. Pontos are off the starting blocks already, and angled for Nikaia before I got there. I didn't want to give them a second shot at it, not least because they'll go to war with me when I take Byzantion.

Got spies and assassins at work in Sardis and Mytilene both. Mytilene is much closer to something happening.