Playing on XGM as GCS
Land Troops can only be trained/retrained in Sparta
Navies can only be trained/retrained in Athens
No enslavment or dispanding of troops allowed to boost pop. (To keep the bloodline pure)
All generals must be Spartan all others must be killed.
Captain led battles must be auto-resolved
Expansion only allowed in Greece, after that I must only defend.
Only one archer unit allowed to stick with the practice in sparta.
No re-loading
No general cheats
Land Bridges on, AI bonuses on, vh/vh difficulty.
Not a pic from this campain I must admit but have you ever seen a unit of skirmishers try to suround a unit of hopolites?
Anyway on with the campain, A lighting war was set up against our oppresors the Macedonia's, once that mighty nation had ruled the civilised world with our aid but after Alexander's fall all honour was lost and they treated us no better than slaves.
Well know they have learnt we Greeks are not to be underestimated.
While in the chaos of this epic stuggle of the slave and the slaver little documentative evident remains, however this much is certain.
The spartan's quickly advandced and took over the military, it is only right of the hero's of Thermopoly should provide for us. Our army will be kept strong with Spartan blood.
Unfortunatly while Spartan's are the king of land the sea remains a mystery to them, fortunatly for us Athens have long been great shipmasters all our navies will be recuirted from here to keep us from the perils of seasickness and the deep.
Several galant leaders emerged out of the chaos however it was the Spartans that made the name for themselves, hence for it was ruled that only a General trained in the Agora may rule and lead our noble soliders.
Several militay reforms took place to take us back to our core strenghts of the spear and shield only a few fools follow the practice of the bow, never shall we get drawn down that path again, we know better now.
Here is Greece nearly united and our armies that guard the borders.
The noble Athieniens who crushed the excuse for a navy of Macadon
And the armies of Sparta
We are besiged by the last remains of Macadon desperate to recature thier founding monument, we noble spartans won't cower behind our walls we shall show them steel!
Our light Cav clips a enemy general then runs for thier life setting up a perfect ambush for my general unfortunatly due to any unkown reason (Vh) my general starts to take heavier losses than expected, the Lc then turns back from thier flight to crush the allready engaged general, the coward runs to see another day.
Meanwhilethe the other general is driven off by my thrown spears, the cowards of macadon support thier thrican allies attempt to break through my small infantry line, however my careful manovering I manage to surround 4 units with only 4 of my own. My cav then chagers into the only remaing gap to slaugther them to a man.
The rest of the battle is just mop up.
A little taste of what is to come next time as I take the last of Macadon, my eyes now rove south to the Island of Crete, while also I watch my northen border as witnessed in my last battle the Thricians are keen to have thier blood spllied
And a general of mine who just won't die
[This message has been edited by Roman Warlord (edited 08-11-2008 @ 04:14 PM).]