Originally Posted by
Geffalrus
Managed to defeat the initial rebel stacks near Chersonnessos, though my cavalry got chewed up because the Kimmerians completely lack heavy cavalry in the early game, so bodyguards and Scythian noble heavies are a real problem. My spy died every single time I reloaded, so I settled in for a siege. The initial assault went poorly, as I only have 2 hoplites, 1 militia hoplite, and 3 Peltast Logades with which to storm the city as heavy infantry. The defenders have multiple hoplites of their own AND one of the new Pontic Heavy Hoplites that steamroll through even my Logades. The massive defensive stack ground down my heavy infantry and I was still no closer to reaching the city center. I eventually waited out the siege, autoresolved to horrendous losses just to quickly wrap things up, and checked my income. I was making a 102 gold profit while being stupendously in debt. And the new Scythian revenge stacks that just spawned are more than my depleted army can handle.