Aggressors: Ancient Rome

News from the front:

The Odryrisian Kingdom and Dacian Tribes are brought w/in the loving embrace of Sparta:

I suspect as a result of this expansion and feeling pressure on all sides from the likes of the Seleucid Empire, Pergamon and Bosporan Kingdom simultaneously Pontus (yellow on the diplomacy map below) offered Confederation and Sparta accepted:

As a result Sparta is now w/in a point of Carthage on military superiority and the neighbors once attacking Pontus offered peace which Sparta accepted in order to consolidate and improve existing infrastructure leading up to the next engagement which I suspect will be Rome, we’ll just see what develops diplomatically and perhaps play it opportunistically as events unfold: