Oh yes. I'm awful. Two AARs at once. But this one's been stewing in my mind since August, and I've been eager to start out on it. This AAR comes on the cusp of good news: I've finally replaced my craptastic old computer with one that actually works! The Carthage AAR is one a laptop elsewhere in the house, and can still be updated.
I've made an unusual decision, and have decided to play as the Seleucids on Giant Earth Map's 200 BC scenario. So I'd like to thank Genghis Kai for his great Giant Earth Map mod, and whoever else was involved with its creation.
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Alexander the Great was arguably the greatest military genius in history. He conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire in a bit over a decade, and spread Hellenistic culture from its roots in Greece to Egypt, Persia, and as far as the Indus. After leading his army over an exceptionally brutal return journey from India across the Persian deserts, Alexander caught ill and died in Babylon in 323 BC. At the young emperor's death, his empire was divided, and the general Seleucus received a large portion of his dominions, from parts of Asia Minor all the way to the Indus.
By 200 BC, their capital, Antioch, was the center of one of the greatest empires on earth.
At about this time, the Seleucid emperor decided to abandon the city of Attalia to the Greeks and Galatians, moving the troops which had been stationed there to elsewhere in the empire, where they were more sorely needed.
Parthia had refused to pay its annual tribute to Seleucia, and Seleucid troops sent to enforce the payment had been slaughtered by the locals. Parthian troops now massed on the borders, and intended to take back the Seleucids' Persian cities - something Antiochus III did not intend to let them do.
And above all, the war with the Ptolemies had been renewed in Syria. As Egyptian troops took up positions outside Hierosolyma, the bulk of the Seleucid army poured into Damascus and the region around the Orontes, preparing to put the Egyptians in their place - once and for all.
I've made an unusual decision, and have decided to play as the Seleucids on Giant Earth Map's 200 BC scenario. So I'd like to thank Genghis Kai for his great Giant Earth Map mod, and whoever else was involved with its creation.
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200 BC
Spoiler :
Alexander the Great was arguably the greatest military genius in history. He conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire in a bit over a decade, and spread Hellenistic culture from its roots in Greece to Egypt, Persia, and as far as the Indus. After leading his army over an exceptionally brutal return journey from India across the Persian deserts, Alexander caught ill and died in Babylon in 323 BC. At the young emperor's death, his empire was divided, and the general Seleucus received a large portion of his dominions, from parts of Asia Minor all the way to the Indus.
By 200 BC, their capital, Antioch, was the center of one of the greatest empires on earth.
Spoiler :
At about this time, the Seleucid emperor decided to abandon the city of Attalia to the Greeks and Galatians, moving the troops which had been stationed there to elsewhere in the empire, where they were more sorely needed.
Spoiler :
Parthia had refused to pay its annual tribute to Seleucia, and Seleucid troops sent to enforce the payment had been slaughtered by the locals. Parthian troops now massed on the borders, and intended to take back the Seleucids' Persian cities - something Antiochus III did not intend to let them do.
Spoiler :
And above all, the war with the Ptolemies had been renewed in Syria. As Egyptian troops took up positions outside Hierosolyma, the bulk of the Seleucid army poured into Damascus and the region around the Orontes, preparing to put the Egyptians in their place - once and for all.
