Ideas for pontus

**Pingpong** · September 25, 2009, 12:43 PM

Hello all, I'm currently in my second go round with pontus after my first campaign left me sandwiched between macadonia and the selucids. What are good opening moves beyond capturing the nearby rebel village? I've tried sneak attacking TSE with some success but as that leads me away from anatolia , at least from the starting position I'm looking for ideas,hints, tricks for Pontus.

**Zarax** · September 25, 2009, 02:13 PM

Rush for Galatia and western anatolia, play defensively against the seleucids.

**Kara Kolyo** · September 25, 2009, 02:50 PM

Oh and it's better to play with land bridges off - so you'll have a safe flank and not risk whoever wins at the Balkans to come after you in the worst moment.

**Pingpong** · September 28, 2009, 10:53 AM

Does anyone know how to disable land bridges without reinstalling XC?

**Zarax** · September 28, 2009, 12:00 PM

That would require quite a bit of editing.
Reinstalling XC with landbridges off won't touch your savegames so it's a safe option.

**CaesarVincens** · September 28, 2009, 01:57 PM

I'd have to check the files, but deleting map_heights.hgt should get rid of most landbridges. Some might still be there though.

**Pingpong** · September 30, 2009, 11:28 AM

I'm now on my 7th or 8th pontus campaign which is going nicely thanks to the ptolemys keeping the selucids busy and I was wondering if there was a document somewhere that explained military colonies and the exstension buildings? Thanks

**Zarax** · September 30, 2009, 11:59 AM

Unfortunately there is no such document yet.
However, once I'm done with rebalancing I may make a few feature showcases in order to better explain the system.

**Pingpong** · September 30, 2009, 12:03 PM

That would be great. I conquered athens and saw the ability to build a scythian colony. Is there any way build more then 1 military colony? BTW loving the galation troops. Hoplites+ sword waving maniacs 4TW!

**Zarax** · September 30, 2009, 12:14 PM

Military colonies are restricted to 1 per faction.
Take into account that in Pontus case you get a very useful one as it adds some very good cavalry to complement local infantry.

**Pingpong** · September 30, 2009, 03:47 PM

Is there a way I could figure out which factions get what military colonies and write it up?

**Zarax** · September 30, 2009, 03:49 PM

export_descr_buildings.txt is the place to go.

From the top of my head:

- carthage: lybian colony
- pontus: scythian colony
- egypt, seleucids: galatian colony
- macedon: thracian colony (not 100% sure, my brain is melted by work and unit rebalancing)

**Pingpong** · September 30, 2009, 03:51 PM

Well providing I can find it and understand it

I hope to have a brief overview of colonies and units produced out soon

**Silver Legionary** · September 30, 2009, 05:50 PM

Pingpong, here's a protip:

Said buildings are at the bottom of the EDB.

Most of the stuff in those entries is common sense.

**Pingpong** · October 01, 2009, 03:00 PM

Thanks for all the tips. Most useful, however I do have one question when reading the text file. The galation colony seems to be available to both Egypt and TSE.
I'm referring to the section below. Zarax any ideas on what's actually being said here?
}
galatian_colony_1 requires factions { egyptian, empire_west, } and hidden_resource nobuild or not hidden_resource galatia
{