CELTICEMPIRE
Zulu Conqueror
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The Conquests
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Somehow, in a few games Persia builds somewhat of a navy that manages to unload and take Athens. How the Greeks could ******ed enough not to defeat the Persian galleys or defend Athens well, who knows?
Chapter 13: Bloody Friday
The Immortals and Archers still threatening Southwest Anatolia would probably remain to fight for a while, but it looked like, with Carthage about to finish off Egypt, that the Persians would not be able to seriously threaten Sardis and Miletus anymore. How wrong the people that predicted this were.
They were certainly correct about Egypt's demise. Carthage burned the Egyptian desert city of Byblos in 93 BC, leaving them with just the area around Gaza. And Carthage was certainly going to occupy a lot of Persia's army. Or at the very least, Persia's Navy- Carthaginian Galleys continue to roam the Mediterranean Sea, and do battle with Persian Galleys in various places, such as off the coast of Cyprus, where both sides lost one Galley in battles.
They were, however, wrong about Persia's lack of ability to threaten Macedonian-held Anatolia, as evidenced when large numbers of Heavy Cavalry begin pouring West towards Sardis and Miletus. People are starting to wonder how they can possibly have that many, and think that Macedonia might be doomed. Others point out, though, that they'll probably be forced to leave once the Carthaginian Army plows through Gaza and reaches the Persian border.
The Macedonians tried to deal with as many of the Heavy Cavalry they could in 90, starting with a Heavy Cavalry attack on Persia's massive stack that resulted in utter failure. Come on! I mean sure, they were on a mountain, but come on! Hector's Army proved more successful in killing a unit of them, but still.
This didn't seem to be doing much good when yet more Cavalry appeared in 88.
In other news, the Egyptians and Goths signed a Peace Treaty to end a war that was never going to actually be fought, and this didn't really matter because Egypt was dead anyway.
The Goths, meanwhile, continued their war against the Scythians, and burned the city of Kelermesskaya. At least, Alex assumes that was them.
In 85, the Macedonians continued trying to counterattack, using Heavy Cavalry to take out a damaged Immortal unit and Hector's Army to kill a unit of Heavy Cavalry, then retreat to Miletus. But, really, nothing much. It also saw the Macedonian army forget that the Heavy Cavalry could, in fact, move fast, and would be able to reach Miletus in 2 years. Their reaction has been something along the lines of "oh, crap" but nothing else.
The Celts asked for an alliance against Egypt that year. Alex declined, figuring that would be kind of pointless.
Then the predictable happened, with the Persians first killing a Macedonian Heavy Cavalry unit with their own Cavalry, and then sending in the Cavalry Stack of Doom (TM) to attack Miletus.
Hector groaned. "Hmph. Those idiots ordered us here, forgetting they could reach here before we could leave! Idiots."
He then prepared his army to defend against the incoming Cavalry. Their commander yelled at him, "Give up, you can't win! Our arrows will blot out the sun!" Hector then told him not to steal lines from historically inaccurate movies from the distant future, and stuck a spear out to absorb the incoming charge. In the end, the Army was able to kill the attacking Cavalry... but just barely.
Now it was the job of Hoplites not in the army to defend, and defend they did. The first unit killed one attacking Heavy Cavalry unit, before succumbing to a second one. The other Hoplite unit killed one unit of attacking Heavy Cavalry and forced another to retreat, before finally falling. Then, the final Heavy Cavalry attacked. Hector's Army had fought well, but was still not strong enough to defeat this attack. They did manage to bring the Cavalry down quite a bit, though, and apparently a few yells of "THIS IS SPARTA!" were heard, despite the fact that, while it was madness, with a possible touch of blasphemy, it was most certainly not Sparta.
And, due to the fact that the Heavy Cavalry had all but exhausted themselves taking Miletus, there were only a few badly damaged ones left, right in a location that could be reached by Macedonian Cavalry. Only one Heavy Cavalry was able to attack them, but in 80, attack it did, and take them down easily. A few units of Heavy Cavalry fortified in Sardis, knowing there would inevitably be a counterattack, but there weren't enough Hoplites to put a Hoplite in Sardis to defend.
And the counterattack did happen in 78- but the Persians idiotically assumed that their almost dead Heavy Cavalry could defeat the "defenders" of Sardis. Said Heavy Cavalry were dead wrong.
And, shortly after, a large number of Persian units were seen heading East, away from Macedonia. Why, you ask? Because earlier in the year, this happened:
The Carthaginian Army had, after many long years of fighting, finally captured Gaza, and conquered Egypt. Cleopatra's final fate is unknown, but she certainly isn't ruling anything anymore.
But anyway, the Persians went East in massive numbers, presumably to counter the new threat of the Carthaginian Army on their borders.
There was one that was still around in 75, though, a unit of Spearmen threatening to destroy an Iron Mine on a hill between Sardis and Miletus. Heavy Cavalry quickly put an end to that threat.
They noticed that there was only Heavy Cavalry, and possibly Spearmen, defending Miletus- and there were plenty of Heavy Cavalry available to attack. They of course, decided to attack. What could a few Cavalry possibly do on defense? That would be a fatal question, as they underestimated just how ridiculously overpowered Hadrian's Wall was. Giving Walls to every city and making them Super-Walls. Well, come on, it couldn't have been that bad, could it? Right? Tell that to those 3 Full-strength Heavy Cavalry that died at the hands of that single Heavy Cavalry, or those slightly injured Heavy Cavalry that failed to do much to the weak new Spearmen and the now-injured Heavy Cavalry. Yeah. You thought it was that easy? Right.
And, of course, it got worse in 73, when the Persians decided, "Hey! Let's turn around! Screw Carthage, Macedon is having ridiculously bad luck and we have this massive army laying around, so Lol, let's go kill some Greeks! Er, Macedonians! Whatever!"
Also, some of their Heavy Cavalry attacked Macedonian Heavy Cavalry and won. Boooooooooo!!! Stupid Persians!
In 70, the remaining Hoplites and Catapults that planned to maybe attack Miletus decided now was the time to retreat, in the face of the massive number of Persians.
Then some Heavy Cavalry attacked Persian Heavy Cavalry- and died. Of course.
In 68, before anything else, Carthage decided they didn't want to continue the alliance against Persia anymore.
Sad to see it end, but oh well, as long as Carthage still actually remained at war with Persia, Alex would be happy.
Then came the bad news: the Persians got the Goths to declare war on Macedonia.
"Well, that sucks," said Alex. Another general told him he wasn't taking this seriously enough- the Gothic military was actually stronger than Macedon's, and they were known to have plenty of Teutonic Warriors just to the North to fight Scythia with.
Then came the worse news: The Hoplites covering the Catapults hadn't gotten away, and were killed by Heavy Cavalry. The Catapults headed to Miletus, but they could be reclaimed now before Persia got away with them.
Then came the worst news:
Well, it wasn't bad yet, but it meant that Rome and Persia weren't at war, which meant that they were a potential ally for Persia, which Alex really didn't want.
Lastly, Macedonian scientists reported that they had finished work on their new form of Government, Imperialism.
Some recommended an immediate switch. "Are you mad?" asked Alex. "Go into anarchy now, and let that Persian horde on our doorstep wipe us out? Not gonna happen. Not now, at least." So, they waited, at least until the current Stack of Doom (TM) could be fought off.
Alex fixed the problem of Rome and Persia being at peace in 65- but it cost a fortune, sadly.
Then the Catapult problem was fixed: the Heavy Cavalry covering them were easily wiped out by Macedonian Heavy Cavalry, and then the Catapults escaped onto a nearby Galley.
Now, the Heavy Cavalry near Sardis. Luckily, only one could actually attack in 2 years, the other would have to wait 7. So the lone Hoplites defending the city decided to kill said Cavalry to buy some time. This venture failed miserably with the death of the only Hoplites defending the city. Sardis is now doomed, and Cyzicus and Antandrus look to be doomed soon.
The Cavalry walked into Sardis in 63. Meh, not exactly news.
Also, the Heavy Cavalry that had rescued the Catapults were themselves killed. Not like that wasn't predictable either.
Not predictable were the actions of the Goths: the Teutonic Warriors started showing up in worrying numbers near Rhodes, and would continue to show up in larger numbers in later years.
Oh yeah, and they got the Celts to declare war on Macedonia. Who could have guessed?
Also, Scythia and Rome signed a Peace Treaty. Like anyone cared.
There were no attacks on Antandrus or Cyzicus, but in 60, Alex knew a Battle of Antandrus was inevitable, so he prepared for it. There were 6 units of Heavy Cavalry belonging to the Persians known to be in the area, and possibly more unknown. So he put 3 units of Hoplites and 3 Heavy Cavalry in Antandrus for defense. Due to Galleys not being able to move fast enough, said Cavalry were largely unable to do anything to weaken the Persians in the meantime, but one unit of them was able to defeat one of the Persian Heavy Cavalry units, bringing their total number down to 5. Much better odds.
And so, the battle began in 58. Actually, including the ones that came out of Sardis to fight, there were 7. But even having a numbers advantage would do them no good- they were, after all, attacking Hoplites. Defending a City. On a Hill. From across a river. Yeah. People didn't keep track of the battle that much, but when the dust cleared, there were 3 dead units of Persian Cavalry, 3 too wounded to fight that just barely retreated with their lives, and only 1 of the 7 was able to actually win a battle against Hoplites- that were already injured anyway. Now there's a bunch of weak Cavalry around- easy prey for the still strong Macedonians in Antandrus. Oh yeah, and there's some Spearmen in a forest to the East.
In other news, Carthage captured the city of Tyre, proving they were an actual threat to Persia. And Rome burned the Celtic city of Agedincum, one of their Two cities in Southwestern Gaul.
The Macedonians began mopping up the survivors of the Battle of Antandrus in 55. The only Cavalry unit above "Almost Dead" strength was attacked by Hoplites. They managed to retreat, but it did no good- more Hoplites were available to kill them. The remaining Cavalry units were all crushed by Macedonian Heavy Cavalry easily. The Spearmen in the Forest were bombarded by the newly-arrived Catapults, and then crushed by Hoplites.
To the North, the few Macedonian military units- 2 of Hoplites and 2 of Heavy Cavalry- in the area worked on fighting off the Teutons near Rhodes. The result is 4 dead Teutonic Warrior units, and zero dead Macedonians. But there's still plenty more, and the Cavalry are probably doomed, and maybe the Hoplites as well.
The Naval Battles near Cyprus continued in 53, with Carthage sinking a Persian Galley, and losing one of their own. Another Persian Galley brought a unit of Heavy Cavalry to Cyprus. They never learn, do they?
The Celts did the same, unloading... wait, that's an Archer. On the island that holds Herakleia, Macedonia's Southwesternmost city. LOL. Well, at the very least, Alex is amazed they were able to actually bring a Galley into the Mediterranean with soldiers. He assumes they were probably originally going to somewhere in Italy.
On land, Persia attacked Macedonia's lone military units that happened to be not in Antandrus but near it, a unit of Heavy Cavalry and a unit of Hoplites. The Cavalry succumbed to a Cavalry attack, but not before taking down a different unit of Cavalry down with it. The Hoplites defeated some Immortals, then were killed by Archers. All in all, about a fair trade, except for the fact that Persia now has that unit of Archers in the middle of a forest and Macedonia will now kill them.
The battles against the Goths worked less in Macedonia's favor, as both of the Cavalry units were, indeed, destroyed by Teutonic Warriors. Stupid high attack but low defense.
50 saw the Macedonians do little, just make counter-attacks on the encroaching enemy units. The Archers in the forest by Antandrus were killed by Hoplites, the Heavy Cavalry on Cyprus were killed by Hoplites, a unit of Teutonic Warriors near Rhodes were also killed by Hoplites, and another unit of Teutonic Warriors were killed... by Swordsmen. Betcha didn't see that one coming, did ya?
The Archers in Herakleia were left alone, as they'd be easier to beat on defense and posed no threat anyway.
Wait, did I say they posed no threat? Sorry, I must have been mistaken. Apparently they were able to just barely kill the Hoplites defending Herakleia in 48. Of course they were!
The Naval Battles between Carthage and Persia continued, with Persia losing 2 Galleys and Carthage losing 1. It doesn't look like Persia will ever be able to threaten Cyrpus again with the Carthaginian Navy controlling the sea. Or, for that matter, even build ships on the Mediterranean, thanks to the Carthaginian army, which captured Beirut that year. Antioch is their only remaining Mediterranean port city, though they have a few more on the Black, the Caspian, and the Persian Gulf.
The battle of That Forest To The East Of Antandrus also continued, with some Immortal attacks. Result: Persia down one Immortal, Macedon down one Hoplite.
To the North, the Teutonic Warriors attacked Rhodes. The Macedonians were lucky, though, and one of the units of Hoplites killed one of the attacking units before dying to a second attack, and the Swordsmen in the city defeated an attacking unit and there was nothing more happening. Whew.
The problem, of course, was that there were now around 10 units of Teutonic Warriors surrounding Rhodes, defended by a few Hoplites and Swordsmen. No possibility of retreat, no possibility of rescue. What fun.
But, in 45, they still tried to kill some of the Teutons, and Heavy Cavalry were able to kill a unit of Teutonic Warriors and another of Archers to the Southwest of the city, followed by a Swordsmen attack on Teutonic Warriors that resulted in a bunch of dead Swordsmen. Now the odds for the defenders of Cyprus are ONE against 10ish instead of 2! Yay!
But, there was some good news. A commander named Ajax led some Heavy Cavalry to continue the battle of That Forest To The East Of Antandrus, and was promoted to a General for his efforts. He shall lead a new Heavy Cavalry army, for victory!
That unit of Heavy Cavalry he came from was killed by an attacking Heavy Cavalry unit in 43, but he was luckily gone by that time.
Also luckily: The Persian stack of Immortals and Archers that seemed to be heading to attack went East again. Alex guesses that now that Beirut has fallen, Persia's actually worried about Carthage.
Unlucky was the North, at least at first. By "at first" I mean that, which you should probably already have figured out, the Teutonic Warriors killed the Hoplites defending Rhodes and burned it, with no losses to them.
Later, it got better, with the Heavy Cavalry to the South holding off two Teutonic Warrior attacks, damaged but still alive.
With his shiny new Heavy Cavalry Army in 40 BC, Ajax finally put an end to the battle of That Forest To The East Of Antandrus by killing the Persian Cavalry currently there, then *Gasp* using the speed of the army to retreat back to safety. Not that the Persians likely had any more units available to fight the battle anyway...
Talks of a Carthage-Celtic alliance worried Macedonians that it might be against them, so they were relieved in 38 when it was the Scythians, not them, that the Celts had gotten the Carthaginians to declare war on.
Also, the Goths and Romans signed a peace treaty. Meh. They were close enough to fight, but never actually fought, as far as Alex can tell, although he might be wrong about that.
Lastly, Macedonian Scientists had a breakthrough in Catapults. Their idea was, basically, "Instant Destruction, Just Add Fire!"
"Excellent!" said Alex. "Upgrade our Catapults immediately."
And so they were. In the meantime, Ajax's Army went to re-take Sardis. Due to the hills, they were slowed a bit, and in 35, were only able to kill one unit of Spearmen defending the city. Oh well. Soon it would be Macedonian again.
Nothing of note happened in 33, aside from Macedonia's Spices supply from Carthage running out, and them no longer being able to trade it to Macedonia. Probably exporting it to somewhere else. Meh. Oh well.
The remaining 2 units of Spearmen in Sardis were easily destroyed by Ajax's Army in 30, retaking the city for Macedonia.
In the North, Alex noticed that the Goths were finally willing to make peace. He decided to make getting out of the war a little cheaper for him by sending Heavy Cavalry to kill 3 units of Teutonic Warriors, successfully. Even so, he still had to pay quite a bit of gold for it. As long as it made them stop fighting Macedonia.
The only noteworthy event in 28 was Persian counter-attacks, on both Macedon and Carthage. The attack on Macedon failed miserably, with a unit of Heavy Cavalry easily being beaten by Hoplites in Sardis. The counter on Carthage was a success, though, and recaptured Beirut.
Also, a bunch of Macedonian cities started rioting for no reason. Maybe they were mad about the missing Spices, or something silly like that. Grr. Well, a luxury tax could pacify them until the Silks in the North and Miletus's Gems could be reclaimed.
In 25, Macedon started work on building a few cities in large gaps in its territory were cities really should be. The biggest gap of them all was filled this year by the building of the city of Eretria.
Well, mostly filled. A small gap between it, Thessalonika, Thebes, and Ambracia was there that still needed to be filled.
Also, a unit of Heavy Cavalry was transported to the island that Herakleia was on. As it was still only defended by the Archers that captured it in the first place, it would fall easily.
5 Persian Heavy Cavalry showed up- well some of them were already there, but anyway- in 23, there were 5 Persian Heavy Cavalry near Sardis. They'd be easy to deal with. Also, the Scythians and Celts signed a Peace Treaty.
In the year 20, the Macedonian Army got to work. First things first, the Heavy Cavalry laughed aside the Archers defending Herakleia and re-took the city.
Next, the 5 Persian Heavy Cavalry. That wasn't difficult- there were 4 Macedonian Heavy Cavalry available to attack, as well as Ajax's Army. You do the Math: It all adds up to a bunch of dead Persians, and no dead Macedonians, that would be able to retake Miletus easily soon.
Horrible news in the year 18!
"Damn it!" said Alex. "Not on my watch. Next time I get the chance, I'll go make sure Carthage is at war with Persia, damn it!"
In lesser news, the Goths convinced Rome to declare war on Scythia. Didn't Rome and Scythia just sign a peace treaty? Granted, that wouldn't be the first time something like that happened, but still.
Ajax charged into Miletus in the year 15, killing all 2 units of Spearmen standing in his way with little difficulty.
With that done, Alex went to get Carthage to declare war on Persia again. While he was at it, he decided to get the Goths to declare war on Persia, too, just so Persia wouldn't get the Goths to declare war on them. It cost quite a bit, but was probably worth it. "Excellent!" said Alex. "Now Persia's at war with everyone, assuming they haven't made peace with the Celts. Let's keep them as isolated as possible! YES!"
And then, nothing really happened. Carthage moved their military, Persia moved theirs, everyone else moved theirs, Macedonian Cavalry advanced on the recently built Persian city of Bampur, and that was it. Oh, and the city of Troy was built in that hole in Macedonian territory I mentioned a while ago, in the year 10 BC.
For what feels like the millionth time, the borders of 300 years ago have been restored in the Persian War. But this time, Alex feels it will be different. This time, the Carthaginians are helping, and really, really helping, cutting into Persian territory. And the Persians have no more allies to turn to. Now if only the Scythians would help, the Celts would not behead the Macedonian envoys, and things generally got better. Regardless, it might now even be safe to switch governments, although Alex isn't totally sure about that.
The Immortals and Archers still threatening Southwest Anatolia would probably remain to fight for a while, but it looked like, with Carthage about to finish off Egypt, that the Persians would not be able to seriously threaten Sardis and Miletus anymore. How wrong the people that predicted this were.
They were certainly correct about Egypt's demise. Carthage burned the Egyptian desert city of Byblos in 93 BC, leaving them with just the area around Gaza. And Carthage was certainly going to occupy a lot of Persia's army. Or at the very least, Persia's Navy- Carthaginian Galleys continue to roam the Mediterranean Sea, and do battle with Persian Galleys in various places, such as off the coast of Cyprus, where both sides lost one Galley in battles.
They were, however, wrong about Persia's lack of ability to threaten Macedonian-held Anatolia, as evidenced when large numbers of Heavy Cavalry begin pouring West towards Sardis and Miletus. People are starting to wonder how they can possibly have that many, and think that Macedonia might be doomed. Others point out, though, that they'll probably be forced to leave once the Carthaginian Army plows through Gaza and reaches the Persian border.
The Macedonians tried to deal with as many of the Heavy Cavalry they could in 90, starting with a Heavy Cavalry attack on Persia's massive stack that resulted in utter failure. Come on! I mean sure, they were on a mountain, but come on! Hector's Army proved more successful in killing a unit of them, but still.
This didn't seem to be doing much good when yet more Cavalry appeared in 88.
In other news, the Egyptians and Goths signed a Peace Treaty to end a war that was never going to actually be fought, and this didn't really matter because Egypt was dead anyway.
The Goths, meanwhile, continued their war against the Scythians, and burned the city of Kelermesskaya. At least, Alex assumes that was them.
In 85, the Macedonians continued trying to counterattack, using Heavy Cavalry to take out a damaged Immortal unit and Hector's Army to kill a unit of Heavy Cavalry, then retreat to Miletus. But, really, nothing much. It also saw the Macedonian army forget that the Heavy Cavalry could, in fact, move fast, and would be able to reach Miletus in 2 years. Their reaction has been something along the lines of "oh, crap" but nothing else.
The Celts asked for an alliance against Egypt that year. Alex declined, figuring that would be kind of pointless.
Then the predictable happened, with the Persians first killing a Macedonian Heavy Cavalry unit with their own Cavalry, and then sending in the Cavalry Stack of Doom (TM) to attack Miletus.
Hector groaned. "Hmph. Those idiots ordered us here, forgetting they could reach here before we could leave! Idiots."
He then prepared his army to defend against the incoming Cavalry. Their commander yelled at him, "Give up, you can't win! Our arrows will blot out the sun!" Hector then told him not to steal lines from historically inaccurate movies from the distant future, and stuck a spear out to absorb the incoming charge. In the end, the Army was able to kill the attacking Cavalry... but just barely.
Now it was the job of Hoplites not in the army to defend, and defend they did. The first unit killed one attacking Heavy Cavalry unit, before succumbing to a second one. The other Hoplite unit killed one unit of attacking Heavy Cavalry and forced another to retreat, before finally falling. Then, the final Heavy Cavalry attacked. Hector's Army had fought well, but was still not strong enough to defeat this attack. They did manage to bring the Cavalry down quite a bit, though, and apparently a few yells of "THIS IS SPARTA!" were heard, despite the fact that, while it was madness, with a possible touch of blasphemy, it was most certainly not Sparta.
And, due to the fact that the Heavy Cavalry had all but exhausted themselves taking Miletus, there were only a few badly damaged ones left, right in a location that could be reached by Macedonian Cavalry. Only one Heavy Cavalry was able to attack them, but in 80, attack it did, and take them down easily. A few units of Heavy Cavalry fortified in Sardis, knowing there would inevitably be a counterattack, but there weren't enough Hoplites to put a Hoplite in Sardis to defend.
And the counterattack did happen in 78- but the Persians idiotically assumed that their almost dead Heavy Cavalry could defeat the "defenders" of Sardis. Said Heavy Cavalry were dead wrong.
And, shortly after, a large number of Persian units were seen heading East, away from Macedonia. Why, you ask? Because earlier in the year, this happened:
The Carthaginian Army had, after many long years of fighting, finally captured Gaza, and conquered Egypt. Cleopatra's final fate is unknown, but she certainly isn't ruling anything anymore.
But anyway, the Persians went East in massive numbers, presumably to counter the new threat of the Carthaginian Army on their borders.
There was one that was still around in 75, though, a unit of Spearmen threatening to destroy an Iron Mine on a hill between Sardis and Miletus. Heavy Cavalry quickly put an end to that threat.
They noticed that there was only Heavy Cavalry, and possibly Spearmen, defending Miletus- and there were plenty of Heavy Cavalry available to attack. They of course, decided to attack. What could a few Cavalry possibly do on defense? That would be a fatal question, as they underestimated just how ridiculously overpowered Hadrian's Wall was. Giving Walls to every city and making them Super-Walls. Well, come on, it couldn't have been that bad, could it? Right? Tell that to those 3 Full-strength Heavy Cavalry that died at the hands of that single Heavy Cavalry, or those slightly injured Heavy Cavalry that failed to do much to the weak new Spearmen and the now-injured Heavy Cavalry. Yeah. You thought it was that easy? Right.
And, of course, it got worse in 73, when the Persians decided, "Hey! Let's turn around! Screw Carthage, Macedon is having ridiculously bad luck and we have this massive army laying around, so Lol, let's go kill some Greeks! Er, Macedonians! Whatever!"
Also, some of their Heavy Cavalry attacked Macedonian Heavy Cavalry and won. Boooooooooo!!! Stupid Persians!
In 70, the remaining Hoplites and Catapults that planned to maybe attack Miletus decided now was the time to retreat, in the face of the massive number of Persians.
Then some Heavy Cavalry attacked Persian Heavy Cavalry- and died. Of course.
In 68, before anything else, Carthage decided they didn't want to continue the alliance against Persia anymore.
Sad to see it end, but oh well, as long as Carthage still actually remained at war with Persia, Alex would be happy.
Then came the bad news: the Persians got the Goths to declare war on Macedonia.
"Well, that sucks," said Alex. Another general told him he wasn't taking this seriously enough- the Gothic military was actually stronger than Macedon's, and they were known to have plenty of Teutonic Warriors just to the North to fight Scythia with.
Then came the worse news: The Hoplites covering the Catapults hadn't gotten away, and were killed by Heavy Cavalry. The Catapults headed to Miletus, but they could be reclaimed now before Persia got away with them.
Then came the worst news:
Well, it wasn't bad yet, but it meant that Rome and Persia weren't at war, which meant that they were a potential ally for Persia, which Alex really didn't want.
Lastly, Macedonian scientists reported that they had finished work on their new form of Government, Imperialism.
Some recommended an immediate switch. "Are you mad?" asked Alex. "Go into anarchy now, and let that Persian horde on our doorstep wipe us out? Not gonna happen. Not now, at least." So, they waited, at least until the current Stack of Doom (TM) could be fought off.
Alex fixed the problem of Rome and Persia being at peace in 65- but it cost a fortune, sadly.
Then the Catapult problem was fixed: the Heavy Cavalry covering them were easily wiped out by Macedonian Heavy Cavalry, and then the Catapults escaped onto a nearby Galley.
Now, the Heavy Cavalry near Sardis. Luckily, only one could actually attack in 2 years, the other would have to wait 7. So the lone Hoplites defending the city decided to kill said Cavalry to buy some time. This venture failed miserably with the death of the only Hoplites defending the city. Sardis is now doomed, and Cyzicus and Antandrus look to be doomed soon.
The Cavalry walked into Sardis in 63. Meh, not exactly news.
Also, the Heavy Cavalry that had rescued the Catapults were themselves killed. Not like that wasn't predictable either.
Not predictable were the actions of the Goths: the Teutonic Warriors started showing up in worrying numbers near Rhodes, and would continue to show up in larger numbers in later years.
Oh yeah, and they got the Celts to declare war on Macedonia. Who could have guessed?
Also, Scythia and Rome signed a Peace Treaty. Like anyone cared.
There were no attacks on Antandrus or Cyzicus, but in 60, Alex knew a Battle of Antandrus was inevitable, so he prepared for it. There were 6 units of Heavy Cavalry belonging to the Persians known to be in the area, and possibly more unknown. So he put 3 units of Hoplites and 3 Heavy Cavalry in Antandrus for defense. Due to Galleys not being able to move fast enough, said Cavalry were largely unable to do anything to weaken the Persians in the meantime, but one unit of them was able to defeat one of the Persian Heavy Cavalry units, bringing their total number down to 5. Much better odds.
And so, the battle began in 58. Actually, including the ones that came out of Sardis to fight, there were 7. But even having a numbers advantage would do them no good- they were, after all, attacking Hoplites. Defending a City. On a Hill. From across a river. Yeah. People didn't keep track of the battle that much, but when the dust cleared, there were 3 dead units of Persian Cavalry, 3 too wounded to fight that just barely retreated with their lives, and only 1 of the 7 was able to actually win a battle against Hoplites- that were already injured anyway. Now there's a bunch of weak Cavalry around- easy prey for the still strong Macedonians in Antandrus. Oh yeah, and there's some Spearmen in a forest to the East.
In other news, Carthage captured the city of Tyre, proving they were an actual threat to Persia. And Rome burned the Celtic city of Agedincum, one of their Two cities in Southwestern Gaul.
The Macedonians began mopping up the survivors of the Battle of Antandrus in 55. The only Cavalry unit above "Almost Dead" strength was attacked by Hoplites. They managed to retreat, but it did no good- more Hoplites were available to kill them. The remaining Cavalry units were all crushed by Macedonian Heavy Cavalry easily. The Spearmen in the Forest were bombarded by the newly-arrived Catapults, and then crushed by Hoplites.
To the North, the few Macedonian military units- 2 of Hoplites and 2 of Heavy Cavalry- in the area worked on fighting off the Teutons near Rhodes. The result is 4 dead Teutonic Warrior units, and zero dead Macedonians. But there's still plenty more, and the Cavalry are probably doomed, and maybe the Hoplites as well.
The Naval Battles near Cyprus continued in 53, with Carthage sinking a Persian Galley, and losing one of their own. Another Persian Galley brought a unit of Heavy Cavalry to Cyprus. They never learn, do they?
The Celts did the same, unloading... wait, that's an Archer. On the island that holds Herakleia, Macedonia's Southwesternmost city. LOL. Well, at the very least, Alex is amazed they were able to actually bring a Galley into the Mediterranean with soldiers. He assumes they were probably originally going to somewhere in Italy.
On land, Persia attacked Macedonia's lone military units that happened to be not in Antandrus but near it, a unit of Heavy Cavalry and a unit of Hoplites. The Cavalry succumbed to a Cavalry attack, but not before taking down a different unit of Cavalry down with it. The Hoplites defeated some Immortals, then were killed by Archers. All in all, about a fair trade, except for the fact that Persia now has that unit of Archers in the middle of a forest and Macedonia will now kill them.
The battles against the Goths worked less in Macedonia's favor, as both of the Cavalry units were, indeed, destroyed by Teutonic Warriors. Stupid high attack but low defense.
50 saw the Macedonians do little, just make counter-attacks on the encroaching enemy units. The Archers in the forest by Antandrus were killed by Hoplites, the Heavy Cavalry on Cyprus were killed by Hoplites, a unit of Teutonic Warriors near Rhodes were also killed by Hoplites, and another unit of Teutonic Warriors were killed... by Swordsmen. Betcha didn't see that one coming, did ya?
The Archers in Herakleia were left alone, as they'd be easier to beat on defense and posed no threat anyway.
Wait, did I say they posed no threat? Sorry, I must have been mistaken. Apparently they were able to just barely kill the Hoplites defending Herakleia in 48. Of course they were!
The Naval Battles between Carthage and Persia continued, with Persia losing 2 Galleys and Carthage losing 1. It doesn't look like Persia will ever be able to threaten Cyrpus again with the Carthaginian Navy controlling the sea. Or, for that matter, even build ships on the Mediterranean, thanks to the Carthaginian army, which captured Beirut that year. Antioch is their only remaining Mediterranean port city, though they have a few more on the Black, the Caspian, and the Persian Gulf.
The battle of That Forest To The East Of Antandrus also continued, with some Immortal attacks. Result: Persia down one Immortal, Macedon down one Hoplite.
To the North, the Teutonic Warriors attacked Rhodes. The Macedonians were lucky, though, and one of the units of Hoplites killed one of the attacking units before dying to a second attack, and the Swordsmen in the city defeated an attacking unit and there was nothing more happening. Whew.
The problem, of course, was that there were now around 10 units of Teutonic Warriors surrounding Rhodes, defended by a few Hoplites and Swordsmen. No possibility of retreat, no possibility of rescue. What fun.
But, in 45, they still tried to kill some of the Teutons, and Heavy Cavalry were able to kill a unit of Teutonic Warriors and another of Archers to the Southwest of the city, followed by a Swordsmen attack on Teutonic Warriors that resulted in a bunch of dead Swordsmen. Now the odds for the defenders of Cyprus are ONE against 10ish instead of 2! Yay!
But, there was some good news. A commander named Ajax led some Heavy Cavalry to continue the battle of That Forest To The East Of Antandrus, and was promoted to a General for his efforts. He shall lead a new Heavy Cavalry army, for victory!
That unit of Heavy Cavalry he came from was killed by an attacking Heavy Cavalry unit in 43, but he was luckily gone by that time.
Also luckily: The Persian stack of Immortals and Archers that seemed to be heading to attack went East again. Alex guesses that now that Beirut has fallen, Persia's actually worried about Carthage.
Unlucky was the North, at least at first. By "at first" I mean that, which you should probably already have figured out, the Teutonic Warriors killed the Hoplites defending Rhodes and burned it, with no losses to them.
Later, it got better, with the Heavy Cavalry to the South holding off two Teutonic Warrior attacks, damaged but still alive.
With his shiny new Heavy Cavalry Army in 40 BC, Ajax finally put an end to the battle of That Forest To The East Of Antandrus by killing the Persian Cavalry currently there, then *Gasp* using the speed of the army to retreat back to safety. Not that the Persians likely had any more units available to fight the battle anyway...
Talks of a Carthage-Celtic alliance worried Macedonians that it might be against them, so they were relieved in 38 when it was the Scythians, not them, that the Celts had gotten the Carthaginians to declare war on.
Also, the Goths and Romans signed a peace treaty. Meh. They were close enough to fight, but never actually fought, as far as Alex can tell, although he might be wrong about that.
Lastly, Macedonian Scientists had a breakthrough in Catapults. Their idea was, basically, "Instant Destruction, Just Add Fire!"
"Excellent!" said Alex. "Upgrade our Catapults immediately."
And so they were. In the meantime, Ajax's Army went to re-take Sardis. Due to the hills, they were slowed a bit, and in 35, were only able to kill one unit of Spearmen defending the city. Oh well. Soon it would be Macedonian again.
Nothing of note happened in 33, aside from Macedonia's Spices supply from Carthage running out, and them no longer being able to trade it to Macedonia. Probably exporting it to somewhere else. Meh. Oh well.
The remaining 2 units of Spearmen in Sardis were easily destroyed by Ajax's Army in 30, retaking the city for Macedonia.
In the North, Alex noticed that the Goths were finally willing to make peace. He decided to make getting out of the war a little cheaper for him by sending Heavy Cavalry to kill 3 units of Teutonic Warriors, successfully. Even so, he still had to pay quite a bit of gold for it. As long as it made them stop fighting Macedonia.
The only noteworthy event in 28 was Persian counter-attacks, on both Macedon and Carthage. The attack on Macedon failed miserably, with a unit of Heavy Cavalry easily being beaten by Hoplites in Sardis. The counter on Carthage was a success, though, and recaptured Beirut.
Also, a bunch of Macedonian cities started rioting for no reason. Maybe they were mad about the missing Spices, or something silly like that. Grr. Well, a luxury tax could pacify them until the Silks in the North and Miletus's Gems could be reclaimed.
In 25, Macedon started work on building a few cities in large gaps in its territory were cities really should be. The biggest gap of them all was filled this year by the building of the city of Eretria.
Well, mostly filled. A small gap between it, Thessalonika, Thebes, and Ambracia was there that still needed to be filled.
Also, a unit of Heavy Cavalry was transported to the island that Herakleia was on. As it was still only defended by the Archers that captured it in the first place, it would fall easily.
5 Persian Heavy Cavalry showed up- well some of them were already there, but anyway- in 23, there were 5 Persian Heavy Cavalry near Sardis. They'd be easy to deal with. Also, the Scythians and Celts signed a Peace Treaty.
In the year 20, the Macedonian Army got to work. First things first, the Heavy Cavalry laughed aside the Archers defending Herakleia and re-took the city.
Next, the 5 Persian Heavy Cavalry. That wasn't difficult- there were 4 Macedonian Heavy Cavalry available to attack, as well as Ajax's Army. You do the Math: It all adds up to a bunch of dead Persians, and no dead Macedonians, that would be able to retake Miletus easily soon.
Horrible news in the year 18!
"Damn it!" said Alex. "Not on my watch. Next time I get the chance, I'll go make sure Carthage is at war with Persia, damn it!"
In lesser news, the Goths convinced Rome to declare war on Scythia. Didn't Rome and Scythia just sign a peace treaty? Granted, that wouldn't be the first time something like that happened, but still.
Ajax charged into Miletus in the year 15, killing all 2 units of Spearmen standing in his way with little difficulty.
With that done, Alex went to get Carthage to declare war on Persia again. While he was at it, he decided to get the Goths to declare war on Persia, too, just so Persia wouldn't get the Goths to declare war on them. It cost quite a bit, but was probably worth it. "Excellent!" said Alex. "Now Persia's at war with everyone, assuming they haven't made peace with the Celts. Let's keep them as isolated as possible! YES!"
And then, nothing really happened. Carthage moved their military, Persia moved theirs, everyone else moved theirs, Macedonian Cavalry advanced on the recently built Persian city of Bampur, and that was it. Oh, and the city of Troy was built in that hole in Macedonian territory I mentioned a while ago, in the year 10 BC.
For what feels like the millionth time, the borders of 300 years ago have been restored in the Persian War. But this time, Alex feels it will be different. This time, the Carthaginians are helping, and really, really helping, cutting into Persian territory. And the Persians have no more allies to turn to. Now if only the Scythians would help, the Celts would not behead the Macedonian envoys, and things generally got better. Regardless, it might now even be safe to switch governments, although Alex isn't totally sure about that.
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Indecisive
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Alex is quite optimistic! Unless you can keep Persia at war with Carthage, this is looking more and more like a stalemate.
How about focusing on defense in Asia Minor, and trying to expand into Eastern Europe?
How about focusing on defense in Asia Minor, and trying to expand into Eastern Europe?
Sparthage
Fighting Tyranny
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Welcome to CFC, Indecisive!
aukrest
History Buff
Nice update! 
Hopefully Persia will devote more and more troops to Carthage: which will let you nail through Turkey.
Hopefully Persia will devote more and more troops to Carthage: which will let you nail through Turkey.
I would, but just "defense" is requiring me to spend so much time on building military that I hardly have time to expand North, and there's not much up there anyway. I'd rather build cities in Asia Minor and the remaining few Islands, cause those are close enough to my core and future Forbidden Palace to be useful.
CELTICEMPIRE
Zulu Conqueror
I think the stalemate is going to be broken soon and once you conquer persia you will probably be dominant
why are you building a wonder in a war
why are you building a wonder in a war
Cause it has a good effect (Makes 3 unhappy citizens content in every city I own), plus I don't want the AI to get all the wonders.
And I don't know about that- Carthage might come out of this still stronger than me.
And I don't know about that- Carthage might come out of this still stronger than me.
Bowsling
Deity
Gah.
You are supposed to say
"Then we'll fight in the shade!"
You are supposed to say
"Then we'll fight in the shade!"
mythmonster2
BEC NOIR! RUN!
Will be patiently awaiting update.
Quentonious
Chieftain
Meh, It's good. Maybe you should publish a book!
Chapter 14: Plans, Anarchy, and Anarchic Plans
With the War Front turning around again in 10 BC, many argued now would be a good time to switch into the superior government form of Imperialism. Others thought it would be a better idea to wait and do something else first. In the end, it was decided that they should wait until the Silks where Rhodes used to be could be reclaimed, to provide luxuries as one of the few possible ways to keep people happy during the Anarchy, and also to keep someone else from getting it. Also, perhaps the Celts would finally be willing to make peace by that time, preventing them from getting someone else to join in the war and screw Macedon over in the middle of the Anarchy.
Little happened anywhere in 8 BC, at least as far as the Macedonians could tell. Well, this one Persian Heavy Cavalry unit, and one of Spearmen, showed up and started heading for some Macedonian city, but other than that nothing, and as they were in the Mountains and not even in Macedonian territory yet, the Macedonians decided to leave them alone for now.
Likewise, the Macedonians did little in 5 BC- they just sent Cavalry to go kill some Persian Spearmen, and the other Heavy Cavalry got to the edge of Bampur and prepared to attack. Other than that, it was a pretty boring year.
The Carthaginian Navy continued fighting the Persian Navy in 3 BC, sinking one ship. Also, some of them transported a unit of Heavy Cavalry, which got off of its ship to the West of Byzantium. While slightly annoyed at the Carthaginians sending troops through Macedon, Alex doesn't care much, and assumes them to be going North to fight either Scythia or Rome. In fact, he's fine with letting them use the roads so they can get to their destination faster and not get in the way of Macedonians doing whatever.
In 1 AD, Alex decided to do exactly that, signing a Right-of-Passage agreement with Carthage. Heck, it might even be useful if the Carthaginians and Macedonians started getting in each other's way when conquering Persia. Well, if they could get that far, that was.
You're probably wondering why it switched from BC to AD and skipped 0. Well, in response, I say that nobody knew what 0 was yet, and "WHO CARES!?"
Anyway, back to the story. The attack on Bampur was ready to begin now, and so one of the units of Heavy Cavalry outside the city attacked. It turns out there weren't very many defending Spearmen, probably because the city was very small and isolated, so there was no point in heavily defending it. So those Heavy Cavalry were enough to wipe them all out and burn the city to the ground.
There was some worry about the Heavy Cavalry in the Mountains to the north- what they were doing, and would they be able to threaten the Macedonian Cavalry, either by attacking them or blocking them and forcing them to attack. Ajax put an end to those worries by leading his army forward and killing said Cavalry.
Persia continued doing nothing in the year 3 AD, at least to the Macedonians. It is now thought that, for one thing, their army was weakening, and for another, they were focusing more on Scythia and Carthage now. They were certainly focusing on Scythia, as they were able to raze Chertomlyk, Scythia's southernmost city, close to Persia. At least, people assume that was Persia, as there isn't anyone else who should logically have military force there.
5 AD saw the Macedonians do little except heal and prepare for a push East. Well, there was this one unit of Spearmen that some Cavalry killed, but other than that, they did nothing.
7 AD continued the pattern of being boring. Nothing happened except units being moved around and... Wait. The Scythians captured the Gothic city of Ubii, in their core? What the heck? How did they even get there? Weren't they being pwned by Teutonic Warriors just a little while ago?
Well, if the Scythians are all over there, that might explain why the Persians were able to start gaining on them.
10 AD was a period of continued healing for the Macedonians. They didn't really do much else, cause they needed to get all their people to the front and combat-ready, and finish building a road that would let them get to Ancyra quicker.
The Persians decided to counter in 12 AD- by sending some Spearmen West towards the workers, and some other west to do... well, something, it wasn't quite clear what exactly they were trying to do.
So, in 15 AD, Hoplites went out to defend the workers from TEH SPEARMEN OF DOOM, and Heavy Cavalry went out to go kill the other Spearmen. These Spearmen seemed to truly be OF DOOM, as they were strong enough to force the Cavalry to retreat. But, no, they next attacking Heavy Cavalry finished them. Some SPEARMEN OF DOOM you are.
The other Spearmen of doom retreated in 17 AD.
Also in 17 AD, Carthage asked for a trade of Territory Maps with Macedon, to which Alex said "Sure, why not?" They also resumed their advance in Persia, retaking the city of Beirut that they'd gained and lost again a while ago.
But Persia proved to be more successful farther North. Their Cavalry pushed forward and plowed through Scythia and an alarming rate. They not only managed to take Maykop, on the new Southern Scythian border, but they continued moving forward along the road there to the Scythian capital, Ulsky, and took it, too. Either Persia still has a sizable Cavalry force over there, or Scythia just isn't putting much into defense. Just to the East of Maykop, the city of Melgunov has also been razed, although Alex isn't sure whether that just happened or happened in 12 AD instead and he just didn't notice it until now. The Scythian Government moved north to Katanda, in the far North of their land.
In better news for Scythia, they signed a peace treaty with the Goths, letting them focus more of their attention on fighting Persia. Well, actually, they're still at war with Rome and Carthage, but neither seems to be sending many troops Scythia's way. The Goths curiously don't seem to care much about the Scythians owning one of their (ex-)core cities.
Speaking of Peace, the Celts were finally willing to end their war with Macedon in the year 20. "Excellent!" said Alex. "Now we won't have to worry about them MA'ing someone against us." And, so, the treaty was signed, quite favorably for Macedon. They even got a worker out of it.
At the same time, the Macedonian Army began advancing East, towards Iconium, Ancyra, and Sidon. "This time," said General Ajax, "They WILL fall, and Persia will not get them back!"
Persia attempted a tiny counterattack in 22, which consisted solely of one unit of Heavy Cavalry. It did manage to take out one of the Heavy Cavalry units moving for Ancyra, but it was still pathetic.
Whatever they were using to fight the Scythians, though, was not pathetic, as they captured the city of Saka, on the Black Sea coast to the West of Ulsky that year. Alex fears their military power if they're able to crush Scythia this quickly.
On the other hand, whatever they're doing in the North, they're sucking the South, as Carthage was able to capture the city of Dakyanus that year. Also, his military advisor assures him that the Persian army has weakened a bit, and is now on about the same level as Macedon's. "Wow, that much?" asked Alex.
25 was expected to show a bit of gains against Persia. Instead, it served mostly to show how ludicrous Hadrian's Wall was. In Ancyra, all 3 remaining Heavy Cavalry units attacked, and all retreated West, badly injured. The one that attacked Sidon didn't even manage to retreat, it just died.
Ajax's Army had more luck against the defenders of Iconium, but, then, they are an army. Having traveled a lot recently, they were only able to kill one unit of Spearmen in the city, but now the Heavy Cavalry not part of his army could attack. And... they retreated again. Come on! Well, at least the second attackers managed to kill another unit of Spearmen in the city, but seriously. Screw you, Hadrian.
In the North, a Settling party reached the rubble that used to be Rhodes, and founded the city of Marathon.
Now there were a lot more people wanting to switch to Imperialism now, but others pointed out they were really close to researching a tech, building a wonder that would increase happiness, and taking a few cities. "Surely we can wait just one more turn... Er, Year. Whatever."
As Bacchanalia was really close to completion, and would do more to keep people happy in the Anarchy, this group won this debate, and the switch to Imperialism would be delayed a little longer. But not much longer.
The Persian counter-attack in 27 was again, pathetic, consisting of Heavy Cavalry impaling themselves upon the spears of Hoplites. They didn't even manage to continue steamrolling Scythia this year.
The Umpteenth Battle of Iconium continued in 30, with the Heavy Cavalry attacking the Spearmen in the city. And 2 units of them dying. Ajax got fed up with this. "Looks like if you want something done right, you got to do it yourself!" He proceeded to do this right, leading his forces to victory over the 2 units of Spearmen defending the city, making it Macedonian for the 3rd time.
With that done, the forces to the North originally going to Sidon were now in neutral territory. Noticing they couldn't take Sidon with their current strength, they decided to run South. Noticing they couldn't get anywhere that was out of reach of Persian Cavalry, they just decided to move into the Desert to the South-South-East, build a road there with the recently captured workers from Iconium, and hope they didn't get killed.
And they didn't, although they did get attacked in 32, again by one lone Heavy Cavalry unit taking their Cavalry down quite a bit, but still dying in the end.
Also, Scythia got the Celts to declare war on Carthage. That won't mean much, aside from the fact that the Celts and Scythians aren't at war anymore. Well, MAYBE the Carthaginians would take Burdigala from the Celts, but it was doubtful they'd beat the Romans to that.
Lastly, Macedonian scientist developed something everyone else had already developed a while ago: The idea that there was only one god instead of hundreds. This discovery thrust them into a new age. They couldn't decide what to call it, though, so they just said "The Unknown Future!" "No, the Distant Future!" "No, the far Distant Future!"
Alex found this to be kind of annoying, and he didn't really see any difference from yesterday anyway. Well, the workers and settlers decided their old outfits sucked at got some new clothes, but other than that, nothing. He also found the scientists didn't seem to be actually working on anything, so he revoked most of their funding. Said money would be pretty useful in the new Imperialistic government.
It was also useful for buying Scythia's World Map in the year 35, done because it was noticed that they valued it very, very highly. In fact, after it was bought, Alex saw why. They'd explored most of the Northeastern part of Eurasia, knowing quite a bit of the land between them and the Goths. This new map also revealed a bit more of their land, and that they had extensively explored the Caspian Sea. It was now known where the Eastern shore of the Caspian Sea was- where all of it was, in fact. Some people thought it was a lot bigger than that.
It didn't look like the Gold was helping them much, though, since it wasn't stopping Persia, who burned the city of Tauri, just to the Northeast of Ulsky, in 37.
The Romans showed up that year, too. "Hey, the alliance is over, we don't feel like extending it, okay?" they said. "Sure," said Alex. "It saves me money, anyway."
And hey, they were still at war with Persia, even if the formal alliance was over.
Lastly, Bacchanalia was finally finished in SPARTAAA!!! It would make people happier. Now it looked as if there was no reason not to switch governments.
But, before the switch began, the Macedonian Army decided to take a crack at Sidon. 2 Heavy Cavalry units charged at the city in 40 AD. Despite the bonus offered by Hadrian's Wall, the Commander of these units, Ulysses, still killed all of the Spearmen defending the city with no casualties. The city fell, and with it, the Macedonians got a worker, one of the ones that they'd lost a long time ago. For his efforts, Ulysses has been promoted to the Rank of General, and shall lead a Heavy Cavalry army, like Ajax.
Now, the forces for Imperialism clamored for the Revolution to begin. "Viva Revolution!" They cried. And so it began. But again, some guys raised an objection. "Screw you all! We don't care if Imperialism would be better, Oligarchy lets us screw you over more easily... um, we mean... uh... COUNTER-REVOLUTION, #@%*&%$!"
And so, Macedonia would be dragged into a long period of revolution, thanks to these douches.
In 42, the Persians continued crushing Scythia while not paying attention to the South, and captured the city of Shibe. They looked like they were gunning for Katanda, as Shibe was just to the South of it.
Even in the middle of Anarchy, with various forces clashing for control, the war against Persia continued. In 45, a Fire Catapult and a large force of Heavy Cavalry were ready to attack Ancyra again. The Catapult bombarded the city, which did absolutely nothing. The Cavalry then got off to a bad start, with the first 2 attacking units retreating and getting killed by the Spearmen defending the city, respectively. But now Cavalry were the strongest defenders in the city, which revealed that there were only 2 units of Spearmen. This encouraged the Macedonians, and the 3rd unit of attacking Heavy Cavalry scored a victory and killed these Cavalry, leaving only the already-wounded Spearmen to defend. They managed to force one more unit of attacking Heavy Cavalry to retreat, but they had been too worn down by this point to do any more, and they were all wiped out by the next two units of Heavy Cavalry to attack. Ancyra had fallen, and some workers were taken.
It's not particularly useful to Macedon right now, what with the Anarchy and all, but at least Persia doesn't have it, and Alex's forces have total control of Byzantium and the East, so they won't have to worry about some silly guys on another side trying to attack them. It's the rest of the country they have a problem with- Athens, Thebes, and Sparta are pretty much the only things in Europe they DO have full control of right now.
This little gem of news was delivered to them in 47:
"Why NOW, when I'm in the middle of Anarchy?" screamed the angry Alex. "Oh well, as long as they don't get Rome to declare war on me, I don't care that much, and they don't seem to have the money to do that, judging from what I've recently gotten from their cities."
In other bad news, the Scythian city of Massagetai on the eastern Black Sea coast was burned by Persia. Alex isn't surprised, it was totally cut off from the rest of Scythia, and has been since they took Maykop, Ulsky, and Saka.
As the Persian presence in Asia Minor continued to be weak, the only thing the Macedonian Army did in 50 was Ulysses sending his new shiny Cavalry army to kill Persian Spearmen. In fact, nothing after that happened for the next few years, although the Anarchy battles continued. Alex is winning, pushing the forces that aren't him into smaller and smaller areas as they also fight each other. Around this time, he managed to push North and West from the areas he controlled, bringing Thessalonica and Maronea among them and uniting all of his forces, but even with his successes, this Anarchy has still got plenty of time left before it ends.
In 57, a unit of Persian Heavy Cavalry dueled with an equally strong Macedonian Cavalry unit. As the Persians were attacking, they had they advantage, which is probably why they were the winners of this battle.
In more interesting war news, the Romans finally captured the Celtic capital, Alesia. Brennus took his government officials and they high-tailed it to Bibracte, a smaller city a bit to the North.
By the year 60, a bunch of Macedonian Cavalry were within striking distance of Zela, and attacked. Here Hadrian's Wall didn't seem to be hindering them much at all, as they suffered a grand total of zero casualties here. The Persians, meanwhile, lost 3 units of Spearmen, one of Heavy Cavalry, some workers, and the city.
Further South, Ulysses' Army killed some Spearmen East of Iconium, and the Cavalry in this area started to move towards Sinope.
The Romans and Persians continued pounding the Celts and Scythians, respectively, in 62. The Romans captured Burdigala, the Celtic city in Southwestern Gaul that had been isolated there for a while, and Persia captured the new Scythian capital, Katanda. The Scythian Government moved to Karakol, despite the fact that that's probably close to the Persian Army. Well, most of their cities are really close to the Persian Army right now.
In 65, the Macedonian Army didn't have much to do, except kill some Persian Archers and recapture the last worker they'd lost a while ago. And move towards Sinope. The Anarchy troubles eased up a bit, though, as Alex captured Mycenae and Marathon, evicting the main opposition from their main base of operations, and meaning that the few remaining opposing armies no longer had any real power on the continent, just on the islands now. The dozens of islands. Well, this could take a little bit longer...
The Persian counter-attack in 67 consisted of killing a unit of Heavy Cavalry with their own Heavy Cavalry, like always.
In 70, the Macedonian Army got close to Sinope, and the Imperialism forces under Alex made their final pushes to regain control of the country. The Ionian Islands were all under their control by the end of the year, and the Aegean Islands would soon follow.
Maybe the Macedonians going after Sinope wasn't such a good thing after all, though, as there was only one unit of Heavy Cavalry defending Zela, and 2 of Persian Heavy Cavalry just showed up in the forest outside. Unless enough Heavy Cavalry in Sinope could win that the city was captured and a few were left over to head South and reinforce Zela, it was screwed.
Also, the Goths decided to renew the peace deal with Macedonia, and this time didn't ask for a money payment. Yay.
Also, a Roman Galley sunk a Carthaginian one off the coast of Italy. Alex had almost forgotten they were at war.
Finally, in 72, the fighting ended, with one last naval and land battle off the coast of the Island of Lesbos. The government was restored, as an Imperialism. With lower corruption and the ability to buy stuff with cash instead of whipping people, it looked obviously superior, and granted an immediate GPT boost.
With some adjustment to undo adjustments that had been made during Anarchy, Macedonia was back on its feet.
And now, in 75, the Battle of Sinope began. If it was successful enough, the Army could save Zela. It was successful beyond what they had hoped. Although there was one unit of Cavalry forced to retreat, the other 4 that attacked, led by the Commander, now Great General Pyrrhus II, descendant of the first Pyrrhus a while ago, were all able to kill the 3 units of Spearmen and 1 of Cavalry defending the city, now owned by Macedon.
Now there was one remaining unit of Cavalry able to head back to Zela and kill the intruding Cavalry. It and the unit in Zela attacked the Cavalry outside the city, and killed them all- wait, no, one of the Macedonian Cavalry units died, but brought the offending Cavalry down to 1 HP. Now Zela's in no real danger anymore, amirite? Well, just to be safe, send that Hoplite in Ancyra west, even if the 1 HP Cavalry does take it, it won't be able to heal and the Hoplite can take it back easily.
Farther South, Ajax and Ulysses' armies prepared to attack Antioch. "Ulysses, you go first. This will be an easy battle, you need a few of those for experience," said Ajax. And so, Ulysses did go. It wasn't as easy as Ajax had hoped, though, and they brought down a defending spearmen unit, but took the army down to half strength. Ajax sighed and worked his usual awesomeness, killing the remaining 2 spearmen units defending the city easily, taking Antioch and the workers within it. Persia no longer has a Mediterranean coastline, eliminating their naval power, except for a few ships still in the Black and Med Seas. And they have a couple of cities on the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf, but it's not like that's useful to them.
"Alright, Ulysses, go kill those annoying Spearmen to the West. You can do THAT, can't you?"
Ulysses could do that, but just barely- his army was almost dead now, and would have to go Northwest to heal.
From the hill that was Antioch, the Macedonians could now see the Carthaginians fight. In 77, their Heavy Cavalry killed a unit of Immortals in what was now Macedonian territory. Thank you, Carthage!
Hey, remember what I said about Zela being safe? WRONG. Those almost-dead Heavy Cavalry were able to kill the stronger Cavalry defending Zela. Cavalry are just that bad at defense. Oh, and they promoted. And some more Heavy Cavalry showed up. And they cash-rushed a unit of Spearmen to defend the city, so it's not becoming Macedonian again until Pyrrhus II and Ulysses can get there.
God damn it.
Finally, Two Persian Galleys brought a unit of Heavy Cavalry to Cyprus. This would be the last time they could do that, as they no longer had a coastline with which to bring them there. The Galleys would probably be sunk by Carthage soon, anyway.
80 AD didn't see much happen, the Hoplites in Thermopylae just repelled the final invasion force of Cyprus, and Ajax's Army killed some annoying Spearmen. But they were getting ready. They WOULD retake Zela, and they would take much, much more.
With the War Front turning around again in 10 BC, many argued now would be a good time to switch into the superior government form of Imperialism. Others thought it would be a better idea to wait and do something else first. In the end, it was decided that they should wait until the Silks where Rhodes used to be could be reclaimed, to provide luxuries as one of the few possible ways to keep people happy during the Anarchy, and also to keep someone else from getting it. Also, perhaps the Celts would finally be willing to make peace by that time, preventing them from getting someone else to join in the war and screw Macedon over in the middle of the Anarchy.
Little happened anywhere in 8 BC, at least as far as the Macedonians could tell. Well, this one Persian Heavy Cavalry unit, and one of Spearmen, showed up and started heading for some Macedonian city, but other than that nothing, and as they were in the Mountains and not even in Macedonian territory yet, the Macedonians decided to leave them alone for now.
Likewise, the Macedonians did little in 5 BC- they just sent Cavalry to go kill some Persian Spearmen, and the other Heavy Cavalry got to the edge of Bampur and prepared to attack. Other than that, it was a pretty boring year.
The Carthaginian Navy continued fighting the Persian Navy in 3 BC, sinking one ship. Also, some of them transported a unit of Heavy Cavalry, which got off of its ship to the West of Byzantium. While slightly annoyed at the Carthaginians sending troops through Macedon, Alex doesn't care much, and assumes them to be going North to fight either Scythia or Rome. In fact, he's fine with letting them use the roads so they can get to their destination faster and not get in the way of Macedonians doing whatever.
In 1 AD, Alex decided to do exactly that, signing a Right-of-Passage agreement with Carthage. Heck, it might even be useful if the Carthaginians and Macedonians started getting in each other's way when conquering Persia. Well, if they could get that far, that was.
You're probably wondering why it switched from BC to AD and skipped 0. Well, in response, I say that nobody knew what 0 was yet, and "WHO CARES!?"
Anyway, back to the story. The attack on Bampur was ready to begin now, and so one of the units of Heavy Cavalry outside the city attacked. It turns out there weren't very many defending Spearmen, probably because the city was very small and isolated, so there was no point in heavily defending it. So those Heavy Cavalry were enough to wipe them all out and burn the city to the ground.
There was some worry about the Heavy Cavalry in the Mountains to the north- what they were doing, and would they be able to threaten the Macedonian Cavalry, either by attacking them or blocking them and forcing them to attack. Ajax put an end to those worries by leading his army forward and killing said Cavalry.
Persia continued doing nothing in the year 3 AD, at least to the Macedonians. It is now thought that, for one thing, their army was weakening, and for another, they were focusing more on Scythia and Carthage now. They were certainly focusing on Scythia, as they were able to raze Chertomlyk, Scythia's southernmost city, close to Persia. At least, people assume that was Persia, as there isn't anyone else who should logically have military force there.
5 AD saw the Macedonians do little except heal and prepare for a push East. Well, there was this one unit of Spearmen that some Cavalry killed, but other than that, they did nothing.
7 AD continued the pattern of being boring. Nothing happened except units being moved around and... Wait. The Scythians captured the Gothic city of Ubii, in their core? What the heck? How did they even get there? Weren't they being pwned by Teutonic Warriors just a little while ago?
Well, if the Scythians are all over there, that might explain why the Persians were able to start gaining on them.
10 AD was a period of continued healing for the Macedonians. They didn't really do much else, cause they needed to get all their people to the front and combat-ready, and finish building a road that would let them get to Ancyra quicker.
The Persians decided to counter in 12 AD- by sending some Spearmen West towards the workers, and some other west to do... well, something, it wasn't quite clear what exactly they were trying to do.
So, in 15 AD, Hoplites went out to defend the workers from TEH SPEARMEN OF DOOM, and Heavy Cavalry went out to go kill the other Spearmen. These Spearmen seemed to truly be OF DOOM, as they were strong enough to force the Cavalry to retreat. But, no, they next attacking Heavy Cavalry finished them. Some SPEARMEN OF DOOM you are.
The other Spearmen of doom retreated in 17 AD.
Also in 17 AD, Carthage asked for a trade of Territory Maps with Macedon, to which Alex said "Sure, why not?" They also resumed their advance in Persia, retaking the city of Beirut that they'd gained and lost again a while ago.
But Persia proved to be more successful farther North. Their Cavalry pushed forward and plowed through Scythia and an alarming rate. They not only managed to take Maykop, on the new Southern Scythian border, but they continued moving forward along the road there to the Scythian capital, Ulsky, and took it, too. Either Persia still has a sizable Cavalry force over there, or Scythia just isn't putting much into defense. Just to the East of Maykop, the city of Melgunov has also been razed, although Alex isn't sure whether that just happened or happened in 12 AD instead and he just didn't notice it until now. The Scythian Government moved north to Katanda, in the far North of their land.
In better news for Scythia, they signed a peace treaty with the Goths, letting them focus more of their attention on fighting Persia. Well, actually, they're still at war with Rome and Carthage, but neither seems to be sending many troops Scythia's way. The Goths curiously don't seem to care much about the Scythians owning one of their (ex-)core cities.
Speaking of Peace, the Celts were finally willing to end their war with Macedon in the year 20. "Excellent!" said Alex. "Now we won't have to worry about them MA'ing someone against us." And, so, the treaty was signed, quite favorably for Macedon. They even got a worker out of it.
At the same time, the Macedonian Army began advancing East, towards Iconium, Ancyra, and Sidon. "This time," said General Ajax, "They WILL fall, and Persia will not get them back!"
Persia attempted a tiny counterattack in 22, which consisted solely of one unit of Heavy Cavalry. It did manage to take out one of the Heavy Cavalry units moving for Ancyra, but it was still pathetic.
Whatever they were using to fight the Scythians, though, was not pathetic, as they captured the city of Saka, on the Black Sea coast to the West of Ulsky that year. Alex fears their military power if they're able to crush Scythia this quickly.
On the other hand, whatever they're doing in the North, they're sucking the South, as Carthage was able to capture the city of Dakyanus that year. Also, his military advisor assures him that the Persian army has weakened a bit, and is now on about the same level as Macedon's. "Wow, that much?" asked Alex.
25 was expected to show a bit of gains against Persia. Instead, it served mostly to show how ludicrous Hadrian's Wall was. In Ancyra, all 3 remaining Heavy Cavalry units attacked, and all retreated West, badly injured. The one that attacked Sidon didn't even manage to retreat, it just died.
Ajax's Army had more luck against the defenders of Iconium, but, then, they are an army. Having traveled a lot recently, they were only able to kill one unit of Spearmen in the city, but now the Heavy Cavalry not part of his army could attack. And... they retreated again. Come on! Well, at least the second attackers managed to kill another unit of Spearmen in the city, but seriously. Screw you, Hadrian.
In the North, a Settling party reached the rubble that used to be Rhodes, and founded the city of Marathon.
Now there were a lot more people wanting to switch to Imperialism now, but others pointed out they were really close to researching a tech, building a wonder that would increase happiness, and taking a few cities. "Surely we can wait just one more turn... Er, Year. Whatever."
As Bacchanalia was really close to completion, and would do more to keep people happy in the Anarchy, this group won this debate, and the switch to Imperialism would be delayed a little longer. But not much longer.
The Persian counter-attack in 27 was again, pathetic, consisting of Heavy Cavalry impaling themselves upon the spears of Hoplites. They didn't even manage to continue steamrolling Scythia this year.
The Umpteenth Battle of Iconium continued in 30, with the Heavy Cavalry attacking the Spearmen in the city. And 2 units of them dying. Ajax got fed up with this. "Looks like if you want something done right, you got to do it yourself!" He proceeded to do this right, leading his forces to victory over the 2 units of Spearmen defending the city, making it Macedonian for the 3rd time.
With that done, the forces to the North originally going to Sidon were now in neutral territory. Noticing they couldn't take Sidon with their current strength, they decided to run South. Noticing they couldn't get anywhere that was out of reach of Persian Cavalry, they just decided to move into the Desert to the South-South-East, build a road there with the recently captured workers from Iconium, and hope they didn't get killed.
And they didn't, although they did get attacked in 32, again by one lone Heavy Cavalry unit taking their Cavalry down quite a bit, but still dying in the end.
Also, Scythia got the Celts to declare war on Carthage. That won't mean much, aside from the fact that the Celts and Scythians aren't at war anymore. Well, MAYBE the Carthaginians would take Burdigala from the Celts, but it was doubtful they'd beat the Romans to that.
Lastly, Macedonian scientist developed something everyone else had already developed a while ago: The idea that there was only one god instead of hundreds. This discovery thrust them into a new age. They couldn't decide what to call it, though, so they just said "The Unknown Future!" "No, the Distant Future!" "No, the far Distant Future!"
Alex found this to be kind of annoying, and he didn't really see any difference from yesterday anyway. Well, the workers and settlers decided their old outfits sucked at got some new clothes, but other than that, nothing. He also found the scientists didn't seem to be actually working on anything, so he revoked most of their funding. Said money would be pretty useful in the new Imperialistic government.
It was also useful for buying Scythia's World Map in the year 35, done because it was noticed that they valued it very, very highly. In fact, after it was bought, Alex saw why. They'd explored most of the Northeastern part of Eurasia, knowing quite a bit of the land between them and the Goths. This new map also revealed a bit more of their land, and that they had extensively explored the Caspian Sea. It was now known where the Eastern shore of the Caspian Sea was- where all of it was, in fact. Some people thought it was a lot bigger than that.
It didn't look like the Gold was helping them much, though, since it wasn't stopping Persia, who burned the city of Tauri, just to the Northeast of Ulsky, in 37.
The Romans showed up that year, too. "Hey, the alliance is over, we don't feel like extending it, okay?" they said. "Sure," said Alex. "It saves me money, anyway."
And hey, they were still at war with Persia, even if the formal alliance was over.
Lastly, Bacchanalia was finally finished in SPARTAAA!!! It would make people happier. Now it looked as if there was no reason not to switch governments.
But, before the switch began, the Macedonian Army decided to take a crack at Sidon. 2 Heavy Cavalry units charged at the city in 40 AD. Despite the bonus offered by Hadrian's Wall, the Commander of these units, Ulysses, still killed all of the Spearmen defending the city with no casualties. The city fell, and with it, the Macedonians got a worker, one of the ones that they'd lost a long time ago. For his efforts, Ulysses has been promoted to the Rank of General, and shall lead a Heavy Cavalry army, like Ajax.
Now, the forces for Imperialism clamored for the Revolution to begin. "Viva Revolution!" They cried. And so it began. But again, some guys raised an objection. "Screw you all! We don't care if Imperialism would be better, Oligarchy lets us screw you over more easily... um, we mean... uh... COUNTER-REVOLUTION, #@%*&%$!"
And so, Macedonia would be dragged into a long period of revolution, thanks to these douches.
In 42, the Persians continued crushing Scythia while not paying attention to the South, and captured the city of Shibe. They looked like they were gunning for Katanda, as Shibe was just to the South of it.
Even in the middle of Anarchy, with various forces clashing for control, the war against Persia continued. In 45, a Fire Catapult and a large force of Heavy Cavalry were ready to attack Ancyra again. The Catapult bombarded the city, which did absolutely nothing. The Cavalry then got off to a bad start, with the first 2 attacking units retreating and getting killed by the Spearmen defending the city, respectively. But now Cavalry were the strongest defenders in the city, which revealed that there were only 2 units of Spearmen. This encouraged the Macedonians, and the 3rd unit of attacking Heavy Cavalry scored a victory and killed these Cavalry, leaving only the already-wounded Spearmen to defend. They managed to force one more unit of attacking Heavy Cavalry to retreat, but they had been too worn down by this point to do any more, and they were all wiped out by the next two units of Heavy Cavalry to attack. Ancyra had fallen, and some workers were taken.
It's not particularly useful to Macedon right now, what with the Anarchy and all, but at least Persia doesn't have it, and Alex's forces have total control of Byzantium and the East, so they won't have to worry about some silly guys on another side trying to attack them. It's the rest of the country they have a problem with- Athens, Thebes, and Sparta are pretty much the only things in Europe they DO have full control of right now.
This little gem of news was delivered to them in 47:
"Why NOW, when I'm in the middle of Anarchy?" screamed the angry Alex. "Oh well, as long as they don't get Rome to declare war on me, I don't care that much, and they don't seem to have the money to do that, judging from what I've recently gotten from their cities."
In other bad news, the Scythian city of Massagetai on the eastern Black Sea coast was burned by Persia. Alex isn't surprised, it was totally cut off from the rest of Scythia, and has been since they took Maykop, Ulsky, and Saka.
As the Persian presence in Asia Minor continued to be weak, the only thing the Macedonian Army did in 50 was Ulysses sending his new shiny Cavalry army to kill Persian Spearmen. In fact, nothing after that happened for the next few years, although the Anarchy battles continued. Alex is winning, pushing the forces that aren't him into smaller and smaller areas as they also fight each other. Around this time, he managed to push North and West from the areas he controlled, bringing Thessalonica and Maronea among them and uniting all of his forces, but even with his successes, this Anarchy has still got plenty of time left before it ends.
In 57, a unit of Persian Heavy Cavalry dueled with an equally strong Macedonian Cavalry unit. As the Persians were attacking, they had they advantage, which is probably why they were the winners of this battle.
In more interesting war news, the Romans finally captured the Celtic capital, Alesia. Brennus took his government officials and they high-tailed it to Bibracte, a smaller city a bit to the North.
By the year 60, a bunch of Macedonian Cavalry were within striking distance of Zela, and attacked. Here Hadrian's Wall didn't seem to be hindering them much at all, as they suffered a grand total of zero casualties here. The Persians, meanwhile, lost 3 units of Spearmen, one of Heavy Cavalry, some workers, and the city.
Further South, Ulysses' Army killed some Spearmen East of Iconium, and the Cavalry in this area started to move towards Sinope.
The Romans and Persians continued pounding the Celts and Scythians, respectively, in 62. The Romans captured Burdigala, the Celtic city in Southwestern Gaul that had been isolated there for a while, and Persia captured the new Scythian capital, Katanda. The Scythian Government moved to Karakol, despite the fact that that's probably close to the Persian Army. Well, most of their cities are really close to the Persian Army right now.
In 65, the Macedonian Army didn't have much to do, except kill some Persian Archers and recapture the last worker they'd lost a while ago. And move towards Sinope. The Anarchy troubles eased up a bit, though, as Alex captured Mycenae and Marathon, evicting the main opposition from their main base of operations, and meaning that the few remaining opposing armies no longer had any real power on the continent, just on the islands now. The dozens of islands. Well, this could take a little bit longer...
The Persian counter-attack in 67 consisted of killing a unit of Heavy Cavalry with their own Heavy Cavalry, like always.
In 70, the Macedonian Army got close to Sinope, and the Imperialism forces under Alex made their final pushes to regain control of the country. The Ionian Islands were all under their control by the end of the year, and the Aegean Islands would soon follow.
Maybe the Macedonians going after Sinope wasn't such a good thing after all, though, as there was only one unit of Heavy Cavalry defending Zela, and 2 of Persian Heavy Cavalry just showed up in the forest outside. Unless enough Heavy Cavalry in Sinope could win that the city was captured and a few were left over to head South and reinforce Zela, it was screwed.
Also, the Goths decided to renew the peace deal with Macedonia, and this time didn't ask for a money payment. Yay.
Also, a Roman Galley sunk a Carthaginian one off the coast of Italy. Alex had almost forgotten they were at war.
Finally, in 72, the fighting ended, with one last naval and land battle off the coast of the Island of Lesbos. The government was restored, as an Imperialism. With lower corruption and the ability to buy stuff with cash instead of whipping people, it looked obviously superior, and granted an immediate GPT boost.
With some adjustment to undo adjustments that had been made during Anarchy, Macedonia was back on its feet.
And now, in 75, the Battle of Sinope began. If it was successful enough, the Army could save Zela. It was successful beyond what they had hoped. Although there was one unit of Cavalry forced to retreat, the other 4 that attacked, led by the Commander, now Great General Pyrrhus II, descendant of the first Pyrrhus a while ago, were all able to kill the 3 units of Spearmen and 1 of Cavalry defending the city, now owned by Macedon.
Now there was one remaining unit of Cavalry able to head back to Zela and kill the intruding Cavalry. It and the unit in Zela attacked the Cavalry outside the city, and killed them all- wait, no, one of the Macedonian Cavalry units died, but brought the offending Cavalry down to 1 HP. Now Zela's in no real danger anymore, amirite? Well, just to be safe, send that Hoplite in Ancyra west, even if the 1 HP Cavalry does take it, it won't be able to heal and the Hoplite can take it back easily.
Farther South, Ajax and Ulysses' armies prepared to attack Antioch. "Ulysses, you go first. This will be an easy battle, you need a few of those for experience," said Ajax. And so, Ulysses did go. It wasn't as easy as Ajax had hoped, though, and they brought down a defending spearmen unit, but took the army down to half strength. Ajax sighed and worked his usual awesomeness, killing the remaining 2 spearmen units defending the city easily, taking Antioch and the workers within it. Persia no longer has a Mediterranean coastline, eliminating their naval power, except for a few ships still in the Black and Med Seas. And they have a couple of cities on the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf, but it's not like that's useful to them.
"Alright, Ulysses, go kill those annoying Spearmen to the West. You can do THAT, can't you?"
Ulysses could do that, but just barely- his army was almost dead now, and would have to go Northwest to heal.
From the hill that was Antioch, the Macedonians could now see the Carthaginians fight. In 77, their Heavy Cavalry killed a unit of Immortals in what was now Macedonian territory. Thank you, Carthage!
Hey, remember what I said about Zela being safe? WRONG. Those almost-dead Heavy Cavalry were able to kill the stronger Cavalry defending Zela. Cavalry are just that bad at defense. Oh, and they promoted. And some more Heavy Cavalry showed up. And they cash-rushed a unit of Spearmen to defend the city, so it's not becoming Macedonian again until Pyrrhus II and Ulysses can get there.
God damn it.
Finally, Two Persian Galleys brought a unit of Heavy Cavalry to Cyprus. This would be the last time they could do that, as they no longer had a coastline with which to bring them there. The Galleys would probably be sunk by Carthage soon, anyway.
80 AD didn't see much happen, the Hoplites in Thermopylae just repelled the final invasion force of Cyprus, and Ajax's Army killed some annoying Spearmen. But they were getting ready. They WOULD retake Zela, and they would take much, much more.
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aukrest
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Great update! Thanks!
Indecisive
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Thanks for the welcome Sparthage!
Looks like you have them on the run now, so congratulations! What do you think made this time different - was it Persia's war with Carthage, or was it the Heavy Cavalry army?
I'm already looking forward to the Fall of Rome!
Looks like you have them on the run now, so congratulations! What do you think made this time different - was it Persia's war with Carthage, or was it the Heavy Cavalry army?
I'm already looking forward to the Fall of Rome!
CELTICEMPIRE
Zulu Conqueror
I cant wait till hes done with persia, but he might win before that and Persia could counter-attack again, and Carthage is pwoerful too, he could still lose.
by the way what will you do if you lose one of these will you play as another Civ and do it again or will you just do the next one
MaxaTheGreat
Feel Prussian Iron!
The Macedonians finally puncture into the Persian Menace!Now let's hope they done take them back.
Yeah, I'd have to say Carthage is a bigger threat than Persia at this point, but seeing as they aren't fighting a permanent war with me, I'll leave them alone for now, and focus on Persia.
After that, I don't know. Carthage will still probably bigger than me after the war, unless I manage to get a lot more cities than they do.
Maybe I'll go pay what's left of the Scythians a visit, or perhaps invade the Eastern part of Rome.
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