Our unengaged skirmishers flank enemy flankers. To our right enemy skirmishers engage our own. While the Pontic phalanx ties the enemy, skirmishers hit enemy's flank.Įnemy ranged troops drive Polemonios away and enemy hoplites flank our Phalanx. Each volley causes heavy casualties among the unarmoured militia.Īs enemy's main body moves towards the waiting phalanxes, Polemonios himself attempts to take out enemy archers and slingers. Pontic skirmishers throw their javelins in the rear of enemy hoplites. Polemonios harasses the advancing enemy and tries to lure them disorderly into his ranks. Polemonios orders his phalanxes to form a straight line and skirmishers to take up positions behind them. They wait until winter of the same year before the defenders sally and try to drive back the besiegers. In the autumn of 268 BC a Pontic army led by Oxathres Polemonios besieges coastal city of Sinope.
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