A guide to EB blitzing, for new players.

[satalexton]

-just- in the green......until grey-death knocks on your gates.....><

[burn_again]

For Pontos I'd suggest a different blitzing strategy: Mazaka, Ipsos, Sardis. You can reach Mazaka in turn one, Ipsos in turn three. These 3 cities have mines and are weakly garnisoned at the gamestart, you starting troops will be enough to take them. You will be at war with the AS anyway, so that should not be a problem. With these cities your economy should be fine, you just have to defend Mazaka (and the first AS attacks will not be so hard) while you take the rest of Asia Minor.
If you attack Sinope and Ankyra first you will probably take too many casualties to attack the AS, who will have build up garnisons by then. Sometimes it can be better to wait for turn two to attack Mazaka, there is a chance that Pahlava will not attack the AS in turn one if you are already at war with them.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

For Pontos I'd suggest a different blitzing strategy: Mazaka, Ipsos, Sardis. You can reach Mazaka in turn one, Ipsos in turn three. These 3 cities have mines and are weakly garnisoned at the gamestart, you starting troops will be enough to take them. You will be at war with the AS anyway, so that should not be a problem. With these cities your economy should be fine, you just have to defend Mazaka (and the first AS attacks will not be so hard) while you take the rest of Asia Minor.
If you attack Sinope and Ankyra first you will probably take too many casualties to attack the AS, who will have build up garnisons by then. Sometimes it can be better to wait for turn two to attack Mazaka, there is a chance that Pahlava will not attack the AS in turn one if you are already at war with them.

That's a good idea if you want to start the war with Seleukia early. Not very historical, but very effective! Hit the AS when they are weakest, which is right at the start!

I usually wait for the Seleucids to attack me first as Pontus. It's harder that way, though.

[Hakomar]

I just skimmed through this thread, so I apologise if I am echoing what someone else has said.
With the army in Corinth, take out what you can to make a small force and besiege Sparta. Buy one Cretan archer if you can, they help. Besiege Athens with the force you have next to it. The field army of Koinon Hellenon near Sparta will probably attack you - withdraw and it will probably attack you again. Find a suitable hill near the end of the map, and the enemy will be exhausted from walking all the way - whilst you are shooting at them, and they have no cavalry or good missile unit, which is excellent. Finish them off, besiege Sparta again, finish off Athens, then Sparta, and I usually finish of Epirus, if they have taken Pella, but sometimes they havn't, so make a wise move and choose to move onto Crete and possibly Rhodes, or consolidate your position in Greece. Also disband your navy, and you should do fine.

[Skullheadhq]

Makedonia Blitzing:
Get your pre-made stacks together and attack Athenai, and just burn it down in the next turn, and be sure to recruit some javilineers in Pella just in case that half-barbarian Pyrrhos comes knocking on your doors.

Then just send a small army to Rhodos and capture it.

After that just lure (lol It's somewhat exploitive but whatever) the Spartiatai to the northwestern point of the Pelopponesos and quickly build a fort with a cheap unit in it to lock the Spartans there, and then just besiege Sparta, the soldiers of the KH quickly besiege your fortress to rescue their beloved city, alas, too late! Just burn Sparta down.

Faction Eliminated: KH

You should just mop up those rebels (the Spartan army) and then send your army north to Pella for recruitment, and just train an amry huge enough to take up Pyrrhos, make sure that you have some skirmishers for those elephants, and by 269 entire Greece was mine (except Thermon, but it's better to starve them out)

You could then attack the Epirote to eliminate them, or just let them live to annoy the Rhomaioi.

And now... Alexander's empire await re-unification under Antigonid rule!