Well, "K.I.S.S." sounds good. I never served in an army and my knowledge base concerning strategy/tactics/et al. is
- trying to implement what I've read of (or is it "from" ??) men being Generals,
- watching / observeing what other players do, and
- learning from own faults.

One of the first strategy games I've played was an old SSI game "Battles of Napoleon" for the Commodere C64. What I've learned there, is until today useful: missile, defence, flanking ...

This evening I started a new game with Pontos on H/M and with large unit size. The later brings my computer to its limits (AMD Sempron 3000+, 480MB RAM & 64MB onboard graphic). The first takes me to kinda new level of experience, but I wanted to raise the difficulty and bringing it closer to what the EB-team recommands.

What was wrong with the P. Elite Phalanx? Had not enough of them, and too many P. Elite swordsman. I guess, an army of similar to the one I've posted earlier could do the match. So:

- 4 slingers
- 2 archers
- 6 P. Elite Plalanxes
- 2 Galatian Heavy Spearmen (=> roleplay)
- 2 Tindanotae (=> roleplay)
- 2 skirmishers

The "roleplay" in this context is to limit the Galatian influx, as you have only 2 provinces (Galatia & ... the province north of Byzantion) that IMHO have a major (or perhaps even minor) population of, well, Galatians.

If I remember well, the maximum units a stack can have is 20, we now have 18. One FM as CO, and maybe a second would do the match more than anything else.

One last word to the M.D.F.: I wish, there were an option to dismount them before battle ...

Yours, T.