I'm still not sure whether the fortune was good or bad. I did get a fantastic stack out of it, but I'm out 25k and now facing a second front when I am already struggling to hold back the Ptolemaics.

The Getai are the only faction I've managed to share a border with peacefully for several years, and that's mostly because I packed the border cities to the gills with good soldiers. Every few seasons a Getai stack would wonder down, take a squizz at my fortresses and decide to go back home for lunch.

I have managed to push the Ptolemaics back to a point where I can hold them, though. The bend in the coastline with the large island to the south, with the island mine and able to land reinforcements. I may park an army there and go back, cleaning out the Pontus on the way.