[Epeiros/Pergamon AAR] Philetairos' Gift

[QuintusSertorius]

Ouch, painful for the Seleukids. Then again, what a crappy commander, not bringing any cavalry. Nice screenshots, Quintus.

They had a single unit of already-depleted Hippakontistai, who the third FM routed on his way to joining the army. I didn't need the reinforcements, but a big unit of heavy cavalry like that made a difference. Especially to the ease with which I killed their general early on in the battle. My light cavalry were invaluable; chucking javelins in people's backs once the lines had engaged, and killing routers with ease. The Gallic ones even killed in shock charges when they'd run out of ammo. They also killed the enemy general, because they arrived moments before the merc general did.

I don't want to take Ipsos and I'd like a few more battles, but I'm not sure how to encourage that. There's a danger now that the AI will just keep sending stacks of 3-5 units whenever they've collected them together, which will be no challenge at all.

Perhaps I should steal one of their armies from elsewhere, then add units to it to make it into a proper balanced force? As in one that isn't just filled up with native phalanxes and even more useless native spearmen. Maybe even a unit of elephants.