[Epeiros/Pergamon AAR] Philetairos' Gift

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Second Seleukid War, 220BC

Amantieus continued to patrol the pass through the Tauros mountains, and was attacked by another Seleukid attempt to invade Phrygia.



They came on in the usual manner.



They were clearly the smaller force.



Byllideus broke through the Seleukid right.



The left collapsed just as quickly.



The final charge that broke the centre was delivered by Amantieus in person.



Thus they'd been beaten in the usual manner as well.



Editorial Note



I'm getting a little bored with fighting Seleukid phalanxes which always try to do the same things. Especially these half-baked stacks with no balance and loads of mostly-destroyed units in them. I may have to take a Seleukid FM, then build him an army from scratch, rather than waiting for the AI to fail to combine their stacks effectively before attacking me.

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Capture of Pantikapaion

Messaneos was now in the process of completing the very last phase of his grand plan, establishing an independent state in the Crimea. He had received the envoys from the new Basilieu, but gave cool replies to the reconciliatory overtures from Amantieus. He wasn't about to give up his newfound autonomy so easily.

He had started the siege of Pantikapaion back in 221, and kept to a methodical timetable of starving out the defenders and exposing all their traps and tricks. In 220 he ordered the final assault.



It was taken with few casualties, the defenders weakened by months of privation.



And now Messaneos set about the business of pacifying the outlying regions.

Editorial Note

I really wasn't in the mood to play out a siege, so I autocalced it. I didn't however, use any cheats.

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Pontic War, 220BC

Marching through the season to reach the Pontic coast, Atintan happened upon the Pontic king.



Seeing an opportunity to end this war quickly, but cutting off the head of the Pontic snake, he sent his cavalry to find and kill the enemy general.



That done, mopping up his retainers was a straightforward matter.



Shocked at the loss of their leader, Pontos signed a peace treaty and agreed to indemnify Pergamon for the cost of the war.



Editorial Note

Had to use Force Diplomacy to secure that ceasefire, even though Pontos had little it could respond with, and I had a port blockaded and Sinope at my mercy, they wouldn't agree to it.

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Second Seleukid War, 220BC

Amantieus was attacked in the Tauros mountains again, this time by a much smaller Seleukid force. They must have been getting desparate not to prepare a proper army to attack, knowing that Amantieus and his army were up here.



The enemy general was slain by Byllideus during the fighting.



His death caused the shattering of morale and flight of his army.



A war-weary Seleukid empire agreed to peace.



Editorial Note

Once again some FD, I was getting sick of fighting them.

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214BC:



I managed to go quite a while before the Seleukids attacked me again - they've besieged a fort I used to block the pass and once that happened I figured it was time to call it a night. Maybe I need to take Mazaka off them and give it to Hayasdan. They're an Eastern faction after all, and more importantly not Pontos. I'd like them to be stronger, but not having two provinces on my border.

What I've been entertaining myself with during the years of peace is fomenting the Second Punic War. Rome lost Cisalpine Gaul and Liguria to their allies the Arverni, and I gave Capua to Qarthadast and moved a super-stack there. They then took Arpi all on their own, though the general got his stupid self killed in the siege.

Qarthadast have also been doing well in the war in Spain, and after a false start where Emporion and Syrakousai rebelled to KH, now Rome are making inroads in Spain too. They also finally completed the conquest of the Illyria coast.

Pahlava look to be trying to join up that province that rebelled to them with their other stuff.