What would an authentic Bosphoran Kingdom army look like?

[QuintusSertorius]

Well, i'm not that familiar with javelin cavalry, that's why I put hippokontistai. Any hellenes, locals and other bastard varieties will do.

I found out what they're called, they're Hetairoi Aspidophoroi.



Like Thureophoroi, they're a way of demonstrating that the Bosphorans are keeping up with military developments in the Hellenistic world.

If you're going to use any medium cavalry, the Lonchophoroi Hippeis are better and again more "modern":



They're also the bodyguard Hellenistic Mercenary Generals use.

You're probably right about toxotai, the bosphorans probably used them once, they got raped by composite bow archers and they never looked back anyway.

With heavy archers, I've encountered the Persian variety and they win archery duels vs light archers with composite bows easily. I generally had to chase them with cavalry, and they even put up a good fight against scythian horse archers in melee. If they're anything to go by, don't bring too many units of bosphoran heavy archers to a fight or you'll win too easily and with no satisfaction.

I agree on both fronts, too many heavy archers and it stops being both challenging and realistic. Though they're archer-swordsmen, rather than archer-spearmen (which I believe the Persians are), which would make them less durable against cavalry.

I think six cavalry (including FMs, max three horse archers) and nine infantry (max three archers) gives a good mix that is distinctively non-nomadic and interesting. It's the Greek-regional fusion that makes all these migrated factions interesting to me.

I agree with this, I just wanted to "get ridd of" the word Pauper. they're not the thing for a main army.
tho Arkontistai could be well viewed as appropriate for a main army as Hellens always had a contingent of psiloi with them and this includes Toxotai Sphendotai AND Arkontistai. on the other side there are "emergency units" like Haploi and Hippakontistai who are only called apon when you are at the verge of extingtion.
Hippakontistai also make a good(roleplaywise) captains unit when a settlement rebels to you. in my "current" KH campaign Sinope(or trapezous not sure) rebelled to me(what supprise) with some(5) mixed levy infantry and a unit of Hippakontistai as "command unit" so I roleplayed that after the nobles got striped of their properties the Greek Merchants spured an uprising against the pontic oppression and animated the lower classes to join their rebellion.
sadly they all died before my relief force arrived ^^

Fair enough, I take your point.