What culture is Pontus?

[Irishmafia2020]

I just started a Pontus campaign, and I thought that they were in the Eastern culture group (Persian), however all of their temples are Hellenic, and seem to spread Hellenic influence... Is Pontus' culture Hellenic or Eastern? I worry that I will make it impossible to recruit certain units if I build the wrong temples...

Apologies for duplicating a thread from the "strategy guides and gameplay discussions" forum, but the front page has higher traffic, and I am hoping for an answer!

Thanks...

[User29]

They are Hellenic in the Grand Campaign and Eastern in the Imperator Campaign.

It does say in your summary tab and in the Diplomacy Window btw

[iam5awyer]

Anyone know if there is a way to make Pontus garrison changed to greek culture instead of the eastern garrison? Kind of kills the immersion for me when i am a hellenic faction and when conquering factions that are not historically eastern to have eastern garrisons. For example, when conquering Tylis, they get an eastern garrison. While i understand that they were not Hellenic and a Hellenic garrison seems just as outlandish; you are converting the population to a hellenic culture, therefore the garrison makes sense. What doesn't make sense is when you convert a thracian faction to hellenic and they get an eastern garrison. Sorry for the rant, and if someone has a reason for this from the Dei Team that would be awesome too. Just wanna say from a long time lurker, this mod made Rome 2 playable for me, and I appreciate all the hard work everyone put into the mod.