Medians, conquered large portions in the east.
Then parsi people led by
Cyrus conquered Median empire.
Cyrus admired Babylon and wanted to add it to his empire, thus he declared war.
Hammurabi ordered the training of Asharitu Bowmen to
defend the city.
The first invadors were a small army led by an ambitious warlord.
He commited
suicide sieging Babylon with his pathetic army.
Elam joined Persian with almost no resistence.
It seems they wanted to take
revenge from Babylon for all these years of tensions.
Jews
joined Persian empire too, although there was a strong resistence movement there.
Cyrus reorganised the army.
Babylonian generals didn't understand what was in Cyrus' mind.
Even to modern historians it's a
mystery.
But this move was pretty clear.
A
full scale invasion from east and south-east.
Cyrus' army was larger than Babylon's.
Babylonians praid to Istar and Marduk for victory.
Persian army captured the quarries and send more aid to the already
strong Persian army.
The battle was tough.
Persians were more but their weapons were
primitive.
Most of them died on city walls, killed by the rain of arrows unleashed by Asharitus.
At the same time Persians pillaged Tigris river.
Tables turned over.
Babylonians pushed back the siege.
It was a
disaster for the Persian army.
Babylonian generals learnt new ways to defend the city, even better.
It seems Babylon just gained its
indepedence from Cyrus' influence.
Babylonians
chased the remaining units and killed them.
Persians didn't invade again, though there was increased military activity in Tigris.
Persians camped in the north of Tigris.
The new military base was named
Hasanlu.
Later the base was transformed to a city and a Persian administrative center.
and things to come for sure ... please is it the recent SVN? and what kind of difficulty level you play in this gameplay - I missed it, thanx and go on.
