Pontic Campaign

[Sygrod]

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Attack - Consolidation.

After I had taken Karkathiokerta, I needed to fill the ranks again, and bring more units forward to create another offensive army. I noticed that Edessa and Antioch were as good as defenseless, but didn't want to attack right away, since I would not be able to secure them. The seleukids provided some distraction and practice by converging small detachments on Karkathiokerta. A detachment of 254 men were quickly dispatched south of the city. 2 men survived against my 1 casualty. Another AS detchment had been loitering north of Karkathiokerta on the Hayasdan border. It came around and I forced it into a battle. 1303 against 605. The cowards had lined up on a hill in the far left corner. The AS army consisted of a unit of Klerouchoi Phalangitai,a unit of those heavily armoured guys (name escapes atm) and a unit of Akonstistai.
My vastly superior force consisted of a general, my unit of Scythian horse archers, 4 units of slingers, 2 units of Caucasian archers and 2 phalanxes. War is not fair and I prefer an advantage whenever possible. I split the army in 4 divisions. The missile troops split in two separate forces to flank the enemies, the phalanxes just marched forward and my cavalry rode up on the hill to their right. This provoked the seleukids to move their armoured unit to attack. The Scythians just pulled back. As soon as the armoured seleukids turned around, I advanced with my Scythians again and sent a stream of arrows into their backs. The Akontistai decided to advance on my right wing, but I changed their minds by letting loose all my missile units. They pulled back with great loss. The armoured guys attacked again, but this time they chose a phalanx. Bad choice. They were utterly ruined. While I cleaned up, the enemy phalanx ran away. It was the only unit to get away. I lost 2 men.