Originally Posted by
Hellenikon
I think Pontos gets too many hellenistic units, due to stacking their government and poleis recruitment. One example is hippomachoi, which doubles the unit pool (0.4 polis + 0.4 government), while other factions like Pergamon are pure hellenistic and much nearby, and get a lesser pool size. IMO Pontus should only have native units (anatolian/persian) from their governments, and hellenistic units from the poleis/colonies.
The exception would be the basilike patris, which could represent the hellenized court, but the rest of the kingdom should be dominated by native units. I also unsure why galatians feature so prominently, almost like native units. I think they should be roughly on par with hellenistic regarding their availability, and not given in so many numbers. Mithridates VI didn't have a good relation with the galatians, he annexed half their land and then betrayed the families for cash.
IMO Pontos should excel on cavalry but have a weakness similar to Armenia (but less extreme), getting solid native infantry. That could be accessed through hellenistic colonies or in galatia proper, but these infantry units shouldn't be plenty or easy to obtain. The player should have plenty of native anatolian/persian infantry and few of the hellenistic/galatian ones, the later ones should never as plentiful as the former.