Is Pontos impossible? Success stories wanted.

[Sdragon]

Started a new game and I followed my last strategy but things went better than expected with the exception i wasn't able to grab the West coast of the Black Sea. When the Silver Death came they seemed to be going westward so since my army was in that area so did I. At this point my army was 4 units of Native pikemen with another reasonable strength in tow. 1 native spearmen (yet to fight) and my slingers. I grabbed Sardis and the town with no wall just North East of it. Thing about Sardis is that it has a 20,000K unique building. I knocked it down and got out of debt instantly and was left with 5K spending money. I usually don't do that but I made the exception.

They attacked my capital with a 4 unit army. I had a family member and 2 pikeman units I had just trained. Won the battle just. I took the time to grab the yellows town and then I came face to face with the silvers main army. It was the moment of truth. my army of 8 units Vs the enemy 15 unit stack of mercs. But they decided to ignore me and attack the rebel city of Ankyra which by this point had a half stack guarding it. Their attack failed and they lost most of their troops. They hired more mercs and brought up more men but if I can bring my troops together I should be able to handle them.

Remember this is on H/M