 With the arrival of the three Spartan commissioners at Cyllene, Phormio began to prepare his ships for a second naval battle.Cnemus now had seventy-seven ships under his command and set anchor at Achaean Rhium.Phormio, with the same twenty ships from his victory at Naupactus, set anchor at Molycrian Rhium, directly across the Spartans at the mouth of the Crisaean Gulf.