Quote Originally Posted by gran_guitarra
No you don't. The trick is to conquer the Koinon Hellenon in the first two turns with as few casualties as possible. THe way to do this is simple. First reinforce the army near Athens as much as possible, and move units up to Pella till its *barely* able to beat Pyrrhos with great/incredible generalship.
Now use the big army to siege Athens and then move one unit from Chalkis to siege Athens. THe KH will attack the single unit, and if you are good enough you can take them out with the army while taking few or no casualties. Repeat the process for Sparta (you might have to storm it). Once that is done leave the most minimal garrison there and head up to smash Pyrrhos's army.
With a full stack of Makedonian troops you should be able to defeat him and take both the cities on the Mainland, if you are lucky the one in Italy as well, and then you can just leave the stack or part of it in Tarentum to protect it, while you build up economically/territorially. I used this strategy against Pyrrhos, and only had to fight five battles myself (the four cities in Greece and Pyrrhos himself).

Once Tarentum is protected simply conquer everything in Illyria, the Galatian provinces, and the Getic Auxiliary ones (the ones with Pestalts and Assault infantry are most desireable).
Wrong, go for Sparta first, it has wooden walls and is an easy nut to crack in an assault. With Sparta destroyed you will never face new Spartans and Athens in issolated. In turn 2 you place your army on the Isthmus after storming Sparta, with a little luck the KH's reformed field army will attack you and you should be able to beat it fairly easily. At this point Southern Greece is yours. At the same time move all of Demetrias' garrison to Pella except the general. In turn 2 that stack should be able to beat Pyrrhos provided you use your javalins on his elephants before they reach your lines.

Then it's in with the phalanx, lock horns and send the general and the Thessalians around the back.

Easy-peasy.