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Update 6: Because an update should never coincide with the release of a Harry Potter Book. >_<
803 FF
1400 BGM
1198 DYE
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Well, in this merry adventure of fates through the updates, weve started the last few times with Europe. Thats understandabletheres quite a bit of war in Europe, and we need to get that out of the way often. So well travel to East Asia for a bit of fresh air, peace, and serenity. Right? Wrong.
Apparently the East Asians, after hearing the tales brought by the Armenian voyagers (more on that later), decided that since wars were going on in every other major region (more on that later too), they might as well have one. Or maybe they had always thought this and decided the time was right.
So in any case, the Shu were still fighting their less than merry war in Bagan. The nation was still quite fiercely resisting, or attempting to, at any rate, but in the end the forces arrayed against them were far too large and well equipped. They succumbed to the Shu menace, but suddenly the large empire was confronted by a series of assaults that no one, not even any of their attackers, could have predicted.
Just as they were about to launch their campaigns against the Thais en masse, the Thais suddenly attacked ferociously in coordination with the Burmese, in a concordance of barbarian tribes that had never been seen before. And as the Shu marched to fend off these raids, Annam attacked in full force after the retreating Shu in that particular area. And then, as if solely to jump on the bandwagon (indeed surprising the other attackers in the area), the Kalingans attacked in full force, seizing some of the hardest gained lands of the Shu Offensive.
And then as if to top it all off, a strike from the Nan Yue took them totally by surprise, reaching the Yangtze before it was halted.
By this time, the emper... or I should say KING of Shu had found that he was not alone in being spontaneously attacked by his neighbors. An urgent diplo reached the Shu capital at nearly the last minute, pleading for help. The messenger claimed that the land of Chu was under attack from all directions at once, and that they were collapsing under the strain of having to deflect the attacks of Nippon, Min Yue, and Nan Yue at once.
The Nipponese, meanwhile, were gleeful to see their attack go so well. But for the minor setback of having the Bagans overrun, everything was going to plan. Even though Annam suddenly threatened to pull out of the coalition, furious that they had been lied to (for apparently the Nipponese had promised that they had already gotten the Tong on their side for this massive invasion, which was blatantly untrue), the war was going well enough, and it looked like in only a few short strokes, it could be won. Even as this happened, Nippon established a small foothold on Hokkaido with their Ronin and also managed to colonize Chubu and Tsushima, which in reality consisted of nothing more than clearing out the pirate bases and raising a few fishing shacks, one or two with a flagpole to hang the banner of the Empire of Nippon... In any case, the people are quite happy now that the pirates are gone.
On the other side of the strait, a sudden invasion of Song Korea by Silla took the small spearmen garrison completely by surprise, and the land was immediately lost to them. And this also, in effect, brought Song into the Great War of the East.
Meanwhile, however, they had their own problems to worry aboutthe Great Wall was broken in the region of Yan by the Xiong Nu, and a horde of raiders poured forth, far more than the Yan could summon a resistance to alone. Fortunately the Song had generously stationed troops in these areas, and it was this, perhaps, that kept the nation from completely falling.
The battle in Yan was sharp and furious, with the horsemen of the Xiong Nu charging the Song positions, which were situated on a hill, even as the nomads archers rained fire down from the heavens in the form of thousands of arrows. But even as this happened, the horsemen suddenly began to plunge into traps dug into the earth, swallowing their horses whole, and disrupting the momentum of the charge. The remaining horses were suddenly assailed by huge rolling logs down the hill, and the Song archers gleefully shot at the horsemen as they made an easy target.
Furious, the front line nomad commander ordered them to continue on foot, though this made them quite less effective, they still had their excellent bows to use, and their spears. The charge still had a few horsemen in it, in any case, and they swept up the hill, still considerably outnumbering the Song. Meanwhile, a horde of horsemen flanked the whole position and made it untenable by the Song commanders point of view; rather than risk open battle on front and flank, he withdrew, leaving the Yan capital to fend for itselfand it obviously fell.
(Shu: -3,000 spearmen, -500 archers, -1,000 swordsmen; Bagan: -nation, Nippon: -10 galleys, -500 UU, -500 Ronin, -1,000 spearmen; Min Yue: -1,000 spearmen, Nan Yue: -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Chu: -3,000 spearmen, -2,000 archers; Kalinga: -1,000 spearmen; Xiong Nu: -2,000 steppe cavalry; Song: -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Yan: -3,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Silla: -1,000 spearmen; Zhou: -1,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Zhao: -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers)
In the south of China, the Tong met the Armenian ambassadors cordially enough, and after they left, sent out explorers of their own to follow the route they had charted. Their ships reached the ports of Sumeria, holds full of spices and precious metals, where they received a handsome price for these and their silks.
Meanwhile, they continued expansion through the Phillipines and Malaysia, each of which were successful in their own right, though they soon met a native kingdom which was also expandingMindanao, Cordially making peace here, they also established trade rights with them.
Back home, they soon gained a monopoly on the iron trade after they had graciously been gifted it by the Shu ambassadorsand the trade companies soon made haste to secure every iron deposit under their somewhat despotic influence.
But even as these going-ons were occurring, something much more interesting happened on Taiwan. They were met on the isle by large ships of a completely unknown type with huge wooden outriggers. The wise ones of the locality, sure that they had finally contacted a completely unknown power, confirmed this by realizing the banners had absolutely no relation in all of China. But then they got their biggest shock of all. These people dressed foreignly, ate foreign foods, had odd customs and habits, yet they spoke Chinese. Tong Chinese.
They soon explained a fantastic tale that would have been dismissed if it had not been for the unusual circumstances. They apparently had been one of two ships that had not made it during the great Tong expeditions to the east of old, and they had gotten lost, and were adrift in the current. However, they soon bumped into a veritable fleet of small water craft, of a people who identified themselves as natives of an island chain to the unknown south, who were also lost.
They somehow managed to band together against all odds, staying in the current, and the fleet descended upon a virgin chain of islands that had never been seen before. Even as the natives fell victim to a few diseases, they still managed to survive, and interbreed with the Tong voyagers. Soon a racially mixed nation was established on these islands, and a kingdom was birthed.
What the trading cabal will do with these new people is uncertain, but they have a most interesting fruit. Which happens to be yellow on the inside, which happens to be the royal color of the emperor, which irks the Shu, which seems to immensely amuse the Tong. So perhaps there is a trading opportunity here. And the fruit even tastes good...
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Meanwhile, on the steppes, much happens. The Avars, rather bored with merely uniting their own people and expanding, launch a massive war against the Tartars. Which gains land that looks impressive on a map, but they hardly actually battled anyone, anyway. Most of the Tartar strength seems to be far east, attacking China.
Meanwhile, a royal marriage is arranged with the Scythians.
(Avars: -500 steppe cavalry)
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Meanwhile, Persia has been a bit bowled over in the last one hundred years. Initially, of course, it was just a Scythian invasion, but suddenly a huge Armenian invasion took them utterly by surprise. The Persians were suddenly being attacked from all directions but the south, and ground was lost all over.
For their part, Armenia managed to easily crush the Persian armies in the north, but found further progress south blocked by their supposedly allied Scythians. Who are still, in effect, allied, but not necessarily the most cooperative of the allies weve seen.
Armenian explorers, meanwhile, reach the Tong and return home with holds full of exotic goods, giving a goodly boost to the economy as a new, sea route is found for the trade goods of the east. Silk is now not just a hard to find good, but all the rage among the upper class of Armenia, if still far too expensive for a lower class to buy.
On the other hand, Armenia has been doing some other warmongering as well. A sudden surprise attack overwhelms the small Syrian garrison in the town of Samosata, and the forces continue onward as quickly as they can to Damascus.
Even as the Syrians gather to resist this particular incursion, a huge force of Cimmerians suddenly strikes from their new home. Well, about half of them. The other half joined the Syrians and settled in Egypt, almost like good barbarians for about a year, until they rose up, but more about that later.
In any case, the sudden attack takes Antioch relatively easily, and heads down in a sudden strike towards the Phoenician cities. These were relatively easily taken, however, it was here that the shaalim took down the leader of the barbarian army easily, leaving the horde leaderless. Which was certainly not helpful to their ability to wage war.
Thus, the final confrontation of sorts that was to occur at Damascus was solely between the Armenians and the Syrians. The armies were almost relatively equal as they drew up for battle, and though the Armenians had the numerical edge and the advantage of relative surprise, the Syrians were fighting on their home front, for the beloved Maluk. It was to be an epic clash...
But naturally well leave you hanging in suspense as much as possible.
Far to the southern end of the Empire, the Syrians abruptly withdrew from the Yemen even as the Sabaens landed on the coast. The following was rather amusing, and somewhat tense all the same, as the Syrians harassed and raided the Sabaens, and vice versa. Absolutely nothing was gained, and many viewed it as a pointless conflict.
Even as this happened, Sabaen soldiers landed all over the Red Sea coasts, stirring up rebellion, and several small naval skirmishes broke out as the Sudafrikan Republik fleet engaged them, even rather small as it was. Unfortunately for Syria, the Sabaens won all of these skirmishes.
The Sabaens had problems of their own, however, as attempting to raise rebellions was for the most part a dismal failiure, except for one location, eastern Egypt on the coast, where some resettled Cimmerians killed not only some Syrian garrisons, but the Sabaen soldiers as well. Go figure.
The warlord of this particular band wants, apparently, to carve out a name for himself and a kingdom for his ancestors in the Nubian region, and all are watching this warlord rather apprehensively.
In a trademark annoying maneuver, the Egyptians suddenly rise in rebellion in the Asyut area of the Syrian empire. They take over a small area, but are contained from further expansion so far by a major influx of the local garrison, and they have not yet reached the crucial Syrian farmland. The rest of the Syrian empire remains loyal as the economy rises...
Which brings us back to Damascus. The battle began at dawn and lasted several hours, when suddenly the noonday sun began to go black. In one of the most shocking events of the century, the armies simply stopped fighting and stared at the eclipse of their sole source of light... The Malukists took it to mean the end was at hand and charged ferociously into battle, and the Armenian acolytes fought as hard as they could as well. The battle went nowhere, with massive casualties on both sides, before someone in the Armenian army had the sense to break out every weapon, and dozens of pots of the Faison's Fire rained down on the Syrian army, breaking the fanatics like no other weapon could, for it seemed the fire and brimstone of hell rained down upon them. This stiffened the resolve of a stubborn few, of course, but the rest broke, and fled into the city.
At long last, the Armenians advanced, and laid siege to the city of Damascus, and already fires from their furious concoction have broken out all over the city.
(Syria: -2,000 spearmen, -2,000 archers -1,000 UU, -10 galleys, +5,000 fanatics [gathered in Palestine], Armenia: -500 UU, +3,000 fanatics, -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers, Sabae: -1,000 spearmen, -500 archers, -500 swordsmen; Persia: -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers)
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Onto Minoa.
The island republic has done well for itself, Knossos has been transformed from a small capital into one of the greatest ports in the Mediterranean. And with the growth in the capital has come a growth in empire. Elephants were recruited from their African colonies, something very few people noticed, and even fewer realized exactly what it was pointing at. Troops were raised, alliances were signed.
Oh, and they united with Illium. Which completely threw the balance of power out of whack, and the entirety of the Aegean Sea was destabilized. But this was only the beginning (I know this sounds like a cheap horror flick at this point).
The Minoans attacked Anatolia in a full force, multi pronged invasion that left little to doubt, and the relatively peaceful Anatolians were dealt a deathblow fairly early on. Their armies were shattered, and their nation left in a few dusty ruins. This is exaggeration, but only slight.
In a few years, the Minoans have taken down all the Anatolians worked so hard to build, and they have utterly crushed the former nation of steppe nomads. Anatolia has reached its twilight hours, and the star of Minoa continues to rise.
Which is not to say that the Minoans were successful everywhere. Far from it. The campaign in Greece was an utter fiasco, as huge amounts of Theban troops broke the siege in a tremendous clash of spearmen, that left the Minoan and Mycenae forces utterly devastated. Of course, the Thebans failed to note that they had another enemy, and their armed forces quickly succumbed to the Macedonians. The siege which had been lifted suddenly was back on, though this time it was now three nations instead of twothree nations that sincerely distrusted each other.
(Minoa: -3,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Thebae: -6,000 spearmen; Macedon: -2,000 spearmen, -300 horsemen; Anatolia: -3,000 spearmen, -1000 archers; Mycenae: -3,000 spearmen)
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803 FF
1400 BGM
1198 DYE
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Well, in this merry adventure of fates through the updates, weve started the last few times with Europe. Thats understandabletheres quite a bit of war in Europe, and we need to get that out of the way often. So well travel to East Asia for a bit of fresh air, peace, and serenity. Right? Wrong.
Apparently the East Asians, after hearing the tales brought by the Armenian voyagers (more on that later), decided that since wars were going on in every other major region (more on that later too), they might as well have one. Or maybe they had always thought this and decided the time was right.
So in any case, the Shu were still fighting their less than merry war in Bagan. The nation was still quite fiercely resisting, or attempting to, at any rate, but in the end the forces arrayed against them were far too large and well equipped. They succumbed to the Shu menace, but suddenly the large empire was confronted by a series of assaults that no one, not even any of their attackers, could have predicted.
Just as they were about to launch their campaigns against the Thais en masse, the Thais suddenly attacked ferociously in coordination with the Burmese, in a concordance of barbarian tribes that had never been seen before. And as the Shu marched to fend off these raids, Annam attacked in full force after the retreating Shu in that particular area. And then, as if solely to jump on the bandwagon (indeed surprising the other attackers in the area), the Kalingans attacked in full force, seizing some of the hardest gained lands of the Shu Offensive.
And then as if to top it all off, a strike from the Nan Yue took them totally by surprise, reaching the Yangtze before it was halted.
By this time, the emper... or I should say KING of Shu had found that he was not alone in being spontaneously attacked by his neighbors. An urgent diplo reached the Shu capital at nearly the last minute, pleading for help. The messenger claimed that the land of Chu was under attack from all directions at once, and that they were collapsing under the strain of having to deflect the attacks of Nippon, Min Yue, and Nan Yue at once.
The Nipponese, meanwhile, were gleeful to see their attack go so well. But for the minor setback of having the Bagans overrun, everything was going to plan. Even though Annam suddenly threatened to pull out of the coalition, furious that they had been lied to (for apparently the Nipponese had promised that they had already gotten the Tong on their side for this massive invasion, which was blatantly untrue), the war was going well enough, and it looked like in only a few short strokes, it could be won. Even as this happened, Nippon established a small foothold on Hokkaido with their Ronin and also managed to colonize Chubu and Tsushima, which in reality consisted of nothing more than clearing out the pirate bases and raising a few fishing shacks, one or two with a flagpole to hang the banner of the Empire of Nippon... In any case, the people are quite happy now that the pirates are gone.
On the other side of the strait, a sudden invasion of Song Korea by Silla took the small spearmen garrison completely by surprise, and the land was immediately lost to them. And this also, in effect, brought Song into the Great War of the East.
Meanwhile, however, they had their own problems to worry aboutthe Great Wall was broken in the region of Yan by the Xiong Nu, and a horde of raiders poured forth, far more than the Yan could summon a resistance to alone. Fortunately the Song had generously stationed troops in these areas, and it was this, perhaps, that kept the nation from completely falling.
The battle in Yan was sharp and furious, with the horsemen of the Xiong Nu charging the Song positions, which were situated on a hill, even as the nomads archers rained fire down from the heavens in the form of thousands of arrows. But even as this happened, the horsemen suddenly began to plunge into traps dug into the earth, swallowing their horses whole, and disrupting the momentum of the charge. The remaining horses were suddenly assailed by huge rolling logs down the hill, and the Song archers gleefully shot at the horsemen as they made an easy target.
Furious, the front line nomad commander ordered them to continue on foot, though this made them quite less effective, they still had their excellent bows to use, and their spears. The charge still had a few horsemen in it, in any case, and they swept up the hill, still considerably outnumbering the Song. Meanwhile, a horde of horsemen flanked the whole position and made it untenable by the Song commanders point of view; rather than risk open battle on front and flank, he withdrew, leaving the Yan capital to fend for itselfand it obviously fell.
(Shu: -3,000 spearmen, -500 archers, -1,000 swordsmen; Bagan: -nation, Nippon: -10 galleys, -500 UU, -500 Ronin, -1,000 spearmen; Min Yue: -1,000 spearmen, Nan Yue: -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Chu: -3,000 spearmen, -2,000 archers; Kalinga: -1,000 spearmen; Xiong Nu: -2,000 steppe cavalry; Song: -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Yan: -3,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Silla: -1,000 spearmen; Zhou: -1,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Zhao: -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers)
In the south of China, the Tong met the Armenian ambassadors cordially enough, and after they left, sent out explorers of their own to follow the route they had charted. Their ships reached the ports of Sumeria, holds full of spices and precious metals, where they received a handsome price for these and their silks.
Meanwhile, they continued expansion through the Phillipines and Malaysia, each of which were successful in their own right, though they soon met a native kingdom which was also expandingMindanao, Cordially making peace here, they also established trade rights with them.
Back home, they soon gained a monopoly on the iron trade after they had graciously been gifted it by the Shu ambassadorsand the trade companies soon made haste to secure every iron deposit under their somewhat despotic influence.
But even as these going-ons were occurring, something much more interesting happened on Taiwan. They were met on the isle by large ships of a completely unknown type with huge wooden outriggers. The wise ones of the locality, sure that they had finally contacted a completely unknown power, confirmed this by realizing the banners had absolutely no relation in all of China. But then they got their biggest shock of all. These people dressed foreignly, ate foreign foods, had odd customs and habits, yet they spoke Chinese. Tong Chinese.
They soon explained a fantastic tale that would have been dismissed if it had not been for the unusual circumstances. They apparently had been one of two ships that had not made it during the great Tong expeditions to the east of old, and they had gotten lost, and were adrift in the current. However, they soon bumped into a veritable fleet of small water craft, of a people who identified themselves as natives of an island chain to the unknown south, who were also lost.
They somehow managed to band together against all odds, staying in the current, and the fleet descended upon a virgin chain of islands that had never been seen before. Even as the natives fell victim to a few diseases, they still managed to survive, and interbreed with the Tong voyagers. Soon a racially mixed nation was established on these islands, and a kingdom was birthed.
What the trading cabal will do with these new people is uncertain, but they have a most interesting fruit. Which happens to be yellow on the inside, which happens to be the royal color of the emperor, which irks the Shu, which seems to immensely amuse the Tong. So perhaps there is a trading opportunity here. And the fruit even tastes good...
******************
Meanwhile, on the steppes, much happens. The Avars, rather bored with merely uniting their own people and expanding, launch a massive war against the Tartars. Which gains land that looks impressive on a map, but they hardly actually battled anyone, anyway. Most of the Tartar strength seems to be far east, attacking China.
Meanwhile, a royal marriage is arranged with the Scythians.
(Avars: -500 steppe cavalry)
******************
Meanwhile, Persia has been a bit bowled over in the last one hundred years. Initially, of course, it was just a Scythian invasion, but suddenly a huge Armenian invasion took them utterly by surprise. The Persians were suddenly being attacked from all directions but the south, and ground was lost all over.
For their part, Armenia managed to easily crush the Persian armies in the north, but found further progress south blocked by their supposedly allied Scythians. Who are still, in effect, allied, but not necessarily the most cooperative of the allies weve seen.
Armenian explorers, meanwhile, reach the Tong and return home with holds full of exotic goods, giving a goodly boost to the economy as a new, sea route is found for the trade goods of the east. Silk is now not just a hard to find good, but all the rage among the upper class of Armenia, if still far too expensive for a lower class to buy.
On the other hand, Armenia has been doing some other warmongering as well. A sudden surprise attack overwhelms the small Syrian garrison in the town of Samosata, and the forces continue onward as quickly as they can to Damascus.
Even as the Syrians gather to resist this particular incursion, a huge force of Cimmerians suddenly strikes from their new home. Well, about half of them. The other half joined the Syrians and settled in Egypt, almost like good barbarians for about a year, until they rose up, but more about that later.
In any case, the sudden attack takes Antioch relatively easily, and heads down in a sudden strike towards the Phoenician cities. These were relatively easily taken, however, it was here that the shaalim took down the leader of the barbarian army easily, leaving the horde leaderless. Which was certainly not helpful to their ability to wage war.
Thus, the final confrontation of sorts that was to occur at Damascus was solely between the Armenians and the Syrians. The armies were almost relatively equal as they drew up for battle, and though the Armenians had the numerical edge and the advantage of relative surprise, the Syrians were fighting on their home front, for the beloved Maluk. It was to be an epic clash...
But naturally well leave you hanging in suspense as much as possible.
Far to the southern end of the Empire, the Syrians abruptly withdrew from the Yemen even as the Sabaens landed on the coast. The following was rather amusing, and somewhat tense all the same, as the Syrians harassed and raided the Sabaens, and vice versa. Absolutely nothing was gained, and many viewed it as a pointless conflict.
Even as this happened, Sabaen soldiers landed all over the Red Sea coasts, stirring up rebellion, and several small naval skirmishes broke out as the Sudafrikan Republik fleet engaged them, even rather small as it was. Unfortunately for Syria, the Sabaens won all of these skirmishes.
The Sabaens had problems of their own, however, as attempting to raise rebellions was for the most part a dismal failiure, except for one location, eastern Egypt on the coast, where some resettled Cimmerians killed not only some Syrian garrisons, but the Sabaen soldiers as well. Go figure.
The warlord of this particular band wants, apparently, to carve out a name for himself and a kingdom for his ancestors in the Nubian region, and all are watching this warlord rather apprehensively.
In a trademark annoying maneuver, the Egyptians suddenly rise in rebellion in the Asyut area of the Syrian empire. They take over a small area, but are contained from further expansion so far by a major influx of the local garrison, and they have not yet reached the crucial Syrian farmland. The rest of the Syrian empire remains loyal as the economy rises...
Which brings us back to Damascus. The battle began at dawn and lasted several hours, when suddenly the noonday sun began to go black. In one of the most shocking events of the century, the armies simply stopped fighting and stared at the eclipse of their sole source of light... The Malukists took it to mean the end was at hand and charged ferociously into battle, and the Armenian acolytes fought as hard as they could as well. The battle went nowhere, with massive casualties on both sides, before someone in the Armenian army had the sense to break out every weapon, and dozens of pots of the Faison's Fire rained down on the Syrian army, breaking the fanatics like no other weapon could, for it seemed the fire and brimstone of hell rained down upon them. This stiffened the resolve of a stubborn few, of course, but the rest broke, and fled into the city.
At long last, the Armenians advanced, and laid siege to the city of Damascus, and already fires from their furious concoction have broken out all over the city.
(Syria: -2,000 spearmen, -2,000 archers -1,000 UU, -10 galleys, +5,000 fanatics [gathered in Palestine], Armenia: -500 UU, +3,000 fanatics, -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers, Sabae: -1,000 spearmen, -500 archers, -500 swordsmen; Persia: -2,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers)
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Onto Minoa.
The island republic has done well for itself, Knossos has been transformed from a small capital into one of the greatest ports in the Mediterranean. And with the growth in the capital has come a growth in empire. Elephants were recruited from their African colonies, something very few people noticed, and even fewer realized exactly what it was pointing at. Troops were raised, alliances were signed.
Oh, and they united with Illium. Which completely threw the balance of power out of whack, and the entirety of the Aegean Sea was destabilized. But this was only the beginning (I know this sounds like a cheap horror flick at this point).
The Minoans attacked Anatolia in a full force, multi pronged invasion that left little to doubt, and the relatively peaceful Anatolians were dealt a deathblow fairly early on. Their armies were shattered, and their nation left in a few dusty ruins. This is exaggeration, but only slight.
In a few years, the Minoans have taken down all the Anatolians worked so hard to build, and they have utterly crushed the former nation of steppe nomads. Anatolia has reached its twilight hours, and the star of Minoa continues to rise.
Which is not to say that the Minoans were successful everywhere. Far from it. The campaign in Greece was an utter fiasco, as huge amounts of Theban troops broke the siege in a tremendous clash of spearmen, that left the Minoan and Mycenae forces utterly devastated. Of course, the Thebans failed to note that they had another enemy, and their armed forces quickly succumbed to the Macedonians. The siege which had been lifted suddenly was back on, though this time it was now three nations instead of twothree nations that sincerely distrusted each other.
(Minoa: -3,000 spearmen, -1,000 archers; Thebae: -6,000 spearmen; Macedon: -2,000 spearmen, -300 horsemen; Anatolia: -3,000 spearmen, -1000 archers; Mycenae: -3,000 spearmen)
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