Man enjoying himself playing Pontus

[mlp071]

one more thing..Antiochea, Seleukia, Marzaka(easy defendable if you take it) and i think Edessa or another town are their main recruitment center .You destroy those , you will see crappy units and mercs..no elites for awhile.

Plus, in all scripts AS startsgetting way less money after 252, which usualy leads to them slowly decaying and getting eaten up by neighbors.

[russia almighty]

Everytime I've played a non-cheat campaign (yes there are those who play cheat campaigns , my stoner cataphracts AAR I'm considering will have to be one for there journey to work even.) that really doesn't matter , they've taken out Parthia, Bactria , Armenia , Egypt and Pontus .

[Satyros]

I thought you might wanted to know this :

It is now the winter of 270 ( in my latest -new- attempt to humiliate AS ) , the proud kingdom of Pontos claiming its freedom from the corrupted Arche Seleukeia now counts its own the following cities : the capital ( I still forget its name )*edit* Sinope , Mazaka , Ipsos , Nikaia AND Antiocheia . We love the Gauls , we do not touch them , they obviously drink , dance and reproduct, everyone happy .

Also beat up some wandering rebels from Pergamon ( the guy that walks around mostly )on the -glorious- march to Nikaia .

I'm actually thinking of keeping Antiocheia .

The 8000 that the KH paid happily for a ceasefire got things moving in my cities , the negative balance dissappeared after the conquest of Antiocheia ( sadly , the bodycount was high , some thousands were butchered , but the debts were paid and the coffers are somewhat "not empty") .

Sweet ptolemy I shall love you, do not attack me for 20 turns , pretty please .

And this is actually my most on-topic post in this thread .

The spies report nothing , at the moment we wait .

Oh what an AAR this would make !

Thanks everyone !!!!!!!!!

Satyros

[Horst Nordfink]

I tried playing Pontus on a medium difficulty. It took me a couple of years to start making money, and then bang on time AS attacked. They took me by suprise and wiped out my leader and heir and took my capitol.

I managed to scrimp and save for a few turns and threw myself a handy little army together. On my way to try to take my capitol back, I was ambushed by an AS army twice my size. Fortunately it was mostly levies and slingers. I wiped out that army, but it was costly. Right after that battle, I was attacked again! With an even bigger army!!

Again, it was most levies and slingers, and again I managed to scrape another win, but I couldn't handle many more victories like this. After the battle, I thought I was free to gather my army together, hire a few more mercs and have another go to take back my capital.

NO! NO! NO! ANOTHER BLOODY ATTACK!! This time there just wasn't enough of my army left to beat them. I was engulfed and got annihilated! This was my last General and I was wiped out.

It was 261BC!

I hate AS! I HATE THEM!!