I gave a try to Pontos yesterday since they seem like an interesting choice, but the prospects are incredibly grim from the start: you start in a backwater without any infrastructure, your armies are incredibly expensive and on top of that when you finally think there will be room to breathe the AS comes with super-stacks of mercenaries with the intent to erase you off the map or die trying.
How can you avoid being overwhelmed by the silver death? I think that an early rush against them might be in order, but then debt will soar and eventually they will come for me and win by sheer attrition, even then Makedonia or the Epirotes will probably attack Byzantium early on and I will be on a hopeless two front war. Any succesful tips or strategy to survive as them?
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