Quote Originally Posted by Titus Marcellus Scato View Post
Quite a blitz campaign! I didn't take Tarsus so early in my Pontos campaign, was quite happy to let the Seleucids and Ptolemies fight over it for a while. The Seleucids left me alone until after they'd taken Tarsus, even though I was still at war with them.

I see you're not taking any chances with the battles, your army always seems to outnumber the enemy.
Yeah, this turned into an anti-clockwise blitz after I realized that I still had enough phalangites left to kick the Ptolemaioi out, which would leave me with a nice protected empire. Don't worry, things slow down later :) And the Seleukids do seem to have a weird obsession with Tarsos - in other campaigns I've taken both Tarsos and Antiocheia, and then watched as they've marched stacks past Antiocheia, just to get to Tarsos. Plus they will ALWAYS send spies there.

As for troop numbers, I didn't outnumber the two Ptolemaioi armies, but I did have better troops to even the odds. And I was a bit surprised that the Galatians didn't immediately sally - with the wild-men at full strength, and if their general had charged my line instead of trying to flank, the battle could easily have gone a different way.