Capture of Tylis

The mercenary general Admetos Kossikos was dispatched north with Pergamon's northern army, to take Tylis. While it wasn't Greek, and thus didn't fall into the policy of uniting disparate Greeks into the Pan-Hellenic Confederation, it had once been part of the Thracian Kingdom that Pergamon had once been part of. Besides it was rich in mineral resources and offered a staging point for the hiring of Gallic and Thracian mercenaries, fierce men who'd be a useful addition to Pergamon's armies.



It was a hard fight, but one in which Kossikos' greater numbers eventually prevailed. He himself played an active role in the battle, leading from the front.



252BC:



I'm conscious there haven't been a lot of battle yet, I guess mostly because I'm not at war with anyone. I'm getting myself situated and set up, and I think I need some bigger population centres before I start warring. I do now have two armies, one in Mysia (pictured) and one in Tylis which I'll move out shortly. I don't plan to have any more than those for a while, and they're deliberately a mix of recruited troops and mercs. I'm trying not to deplete my populations by hiring stuff, though I also hire mercs to disband them and recruit my regional/factional version of the same troop.

I'm not teleporting armies anymore (haven't done for a while), which is why I haven't tried to take Krete. Lacking a navy or the resources to build one, I basically have to take Mytilene (and it's naval yards) if I want to expand any more. All my likely targets are islands; Mytilene, Rhodos, Krete and Salamis. Most involve warring with another faction.

Rome are contained for now. Baktria are refreshingly inactive (due to the stack still sitting on Cape Horn). Otherwise things are pleasantly quiet.