3rd Battle of Byzantion:
Artaxerxes sallies out accompanied by his just come-of-age son. Cavalry and archer superiority against an army of levies. Gee, this is going to be tough.
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Harassing with cavalry while archers pepper them.
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Flanking move by our cavalry pits us against enemy commander and his light horses. It ends soon.
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With their cavalry and leader gone, the rest of the infantry flee the field. I get two units of militia hoplites before they get away.
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In the east, our border force attacks a Ptolemaioi force camping short distance away.
9th Battle of Kilikia-Syria:
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Picture of the Getai front. Silly me didn't exterminate Byzantion and Kallatis, so now I'm having to deal with the unrest before I can move my armies further west.
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Seleucids besiege Karkathiokerta. I'm going to risk and see if they assault next turn. I don't have a spy close enough to check their army composition and I don't want to find myself fighting Silver Shield spam with archers.
4th Battle of Byzantion:
Artaxerxes leaves Byzantion and the first thing on the agenda is to wipe out a Macedonian army camping near Byzantion. Aside from the Companion Cavalry, it's a rather pitiful army we're facing.
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Battle is opened with an arrow exchange as both armies march to meet each other. Artaxerxes goes with a standard formation, pikes in the middle, spears in the flanks and hillmen/peltasts further away from our main line in the sides.
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Our peltasts are engaged by enemy militia hoplites in our left flank. I order hillmen to flank them.
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Hillmen are in turn flanked by Companion Cavalry.
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Subsequently I flank the companions with my General and thureophoroi.
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Enemy phalanx attacking our right flank gets surrounded.
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Enemy general dies, enemy units engaging our main line are rear charged and sent running.
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It's been a while since I used javelin infantry in my armies. Based on this battle, I'm quite pleased with what I did and could have done with my peltasts. They're definitely superior to hillmen as a general flanking force.
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3rd Battle of Kallatis:
Getai besieged Kallatis with a small force of quality troops.I wanted to sally ASAP so I could start marching towards Getai capital.
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Chariots harassed and distracted the archers, allowing my infantry to advance unscathed within javelin range. I massed all Cappadocian cavalry against enemy heavy horse archers.
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After horse archers were taken care of, Getai General's bodyguard charged my horde. They're pretty tough nut to crack and to make things worse, I got flanked by enemy spearmen.
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With enemy spears taken care of by Holophernes, enemy general was within an inch of his life as Pontic infantry reached the enemy line.
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Our infantry charges enemy that tried to charge our tired cavalry.
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Following enemy general's death, enemy morale began to waver as they were hammer & anvilled by our army.
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Thracian peltasts have a pretty nasty AP longsword which probably caused most of our infantry casualties. I may have pushed Cappadocian cavalry a bit too far, but they got the enemy cavalry killed and healing ancillaries tend to do a decent job at healing casualties.
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In the winter of 242 BC, Seleucids lift their siege of Karkathiokerta. They sure love trolling us.
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Ptolemaioi keep throwing bodies at our pikes.
10th Battle of Kilikia-Syria:
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And that, Lords and Ladies, concludes year 242 BC for Pontos.