Andronikos Doukas had two goals: the first was to forge an efficient army; the second was to approach the Cilician defiles and traverse the tortuous mountains quietly, and suddenly appear before the enemy. Both went according to plan. He hoped to stop Romanos from building an economic system to support an army. Rather than entering Cilicia by the usual route through the kleisoura of Podandos, he went through Isauria [one source has him going through Podandos.] But his army faced difficulties in crossing the mountain passes. Had Romanos IV occupied them, Andronikos' army would not have been able to cross