Review my Pergamene army

[QuintusSertorius]

I'm at 217BC in my Pergamon game, and now firmly established in Asia Minor and the Thracian coast.



I've got three armies which are formed along a standard pattern. The idea behind them is to be plausible as a force Pergamon would raise, and also making battles challenging. The former is achieved by some cursory research on what Pergamon’s armies were like (Stele 6 for EBII was a great help in this regard). The latter by capping stacks at 14-15 units and a limit on the number of slingers and cavalry.

Composition goes thus:

Cavalry (4 units):
2 x Family Members
1 x Gallic Light Cavalry/Thracian Medium Cavalry
1 x Eastern Light Cavalry/Thracian Light Cavalry

Line Infantry (6 units):
3 x Classical Hoplites
1 x Thureophoroi
1 x Celto-Hellenic Hoplites
1 x Galatian Wild Men/Karian Warband

Light Infantry (3 units):
1 x Mercenary Kretan Archer
1 x Gallic Slingers
1 x Peltastai/Thracian Peltastai

Deployment thus:

--GalSl

GWM/KW-----KelH----ClaH----ClaH----ClaH----Thur----TPel/Pel

FM-----------------------------KrA------------------------FM
GaLCav----------------------------------------------ELCav/TLCav

There’s a good mix of Hellenes and Thracians/Gauls which I think is pretty authentic. It is pretty effective even against a full-stack phalanx army. Though if there are decent quality phalangites at the centre my hoplites get chewed up pretty badly.

I’m wondering if I should add another couple of units to increase survivability. One option is to take both types of Peltast, Thracian and Hellenic. That adds versatility without making things too easy, more skirmishers who can function as medium infantry. Should I include some Galatian Shortswordsmen or the like as a second? Again they’re not heavies who will add massive killing power and make the army a lot more effective.

Thoughts?