Pontos Tips

**Noob^^** · 12-13-2007, 16:27

Thanks for your tipps guys. I will try to do what you are suggesting.

**Sygrod** · 12-16-2007, 06:11

Did you read my "Pontos Campain" thread?

I am at 217 BC and have both the Ptollies and the Seleukids on the run. If I were more aggressive, they would have been wiped out by now, but I use a defensive strategy. Of a total of 119 battles so far, I have lost 1, and that was very early. Even the formidable enemy elite phalanxes are chased off the field or wiped out. My frontier in the east is Arbela - Edessa - Damaskos - Sidon. In the West, maks are still holding two cities and form a nice buffer to KH, who have advanced to Byzantion.

If you want to have unbeatable armies, recruit phalanxes as mobile walls on the battlefield; many slingers (your best units by far) and horse archers where you can get them (Ani-Kamah is good). The offesive weapon is the slinger contingent. Get some chevrons and they are deadly. Horse archers are good for hitting enemies in the back and chasing after them. Phalanxes are good for shielding the slingers and leading enemy generals into. Other supporting units come in handy for chasing enemies and assaulting city walls.

**Imperator Invictus** · 09-29-2009, 16:53

In my pontic campaign:

-I've started with a rapid anexation of ptolemaic posessions (lightly defended) in Anatolia with the troops of my hellen general

-then, at the same time, with my king and the rest of the army I've besiged greek colonies of Sinope and Trapezous and hold the siege(because I was numericaly inferior)

-I've ended the alliance with Seleucids and kept it with the seccesionists (baktria, parthia)

-the ptolemies asked for peace and I accepted it with their money of course

-then I've unified the remains of the troops from the north and south coasts and start the war with Galatia

-after that I started the war with Pergamon and "pergamean clients" Bithynia and Byzantion

-after the fall of Byzantion I've divided thracia with the getai

-now I'm preparing two opperations, I start to fortify the mountain pases to Syria because I want another rapid anexation of seleucid possesion in Anatolia(and I want to stop a posibile retaliation from the seleucids) and I'm also building a expeditionary corp to be sent to Crimeea

-for the future I will create a "thacian army" to consolidate my power in Balkans and possibly invade epirus or macedonia from the north, a "galatean army" to send in to Syria and Mesopotamia, and a "schyto-hellenic army" to operate first in the Egeean and later in Alexandria
(at the zenit of the PONTC EMPIRE the first army will enter in Rome, the second will enter in Babylon and the third will enter Alexandria)