- As it has been stated in other posts, Pontus still lacks its higher-end units. You will have to wait for later builds to get better troops.

- The lack of paved roads has been mentionned earlier but did not get any official answer AFAIK. Did Pontus actually build paved roads IRL? Or if not, is it plausible to consider that Pontus would have had the possibility to build some anyway? (good old question: what could the factions have done in a "plausible" way...)