I'm a massive fan of playing Pontus - ridiculously hard gaming, I need an uphill struggle to keep me interested.

Now i played in Vanilla, and while hard I persevered and the Seleucids as expected, fragmented - giving me my opportunity.

I played in Total Realism, and spent a ridiculous amount of time pushing the Seleucids out of Anatolia (myself), while holding the Armenians at Colchis, guarding the Hellespoint from mixed greeks and keeping my Cimmerian cities free of the Thracian yoke.

Enter EB. After some shakedown campaigns I move to Pontus, impressed with the detail applied. But come off it! Its unplayable. I march and take Ancrya and Sinope in five turns and I'm STILL in deficit, with skeleton garrisons in place. Theres a line gentlemen...