The Greek City States: Civilized War

[Caius]

Prologue

This story is based in one of the civilizations that bring knowldege to the world: The Ancient Greeks, and their city states. When leaders fight, they lead their people to war. You must rely in leaders to win the war, and destroy the enemy. Maybe you are changing the history course, but only time tell you the whole truth.

Please, join me, and join one of the Ancients civilizations. Your little empire can fall, or you can rise it. This is one of the struggles of power. This is the Civilizated War. May Zeus bless you!

Ok, here we are. I've started this interactive, it will be like Baby Boomer Religious Wars. Every player must do an investigation, as I need some regions per player. Then choices will be posted in this thread. Turns will be of six months. When I receive all the PM's with choices made, I will make a large post with all that happened.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

whats the starting date.

If it is early Ill take Athens. If later Ill take Macedonia

[Caius]

whats the starting date.

If it is early Ill take Athens. If later Ill take Macedonia

Hmm, one week should suit fine.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

I mis-spoke i meant the historical starting date for the game scenario.

[Caius]

480 BC. I hope in that age there were a lot of factions to start with.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

okay Ill take a challenge in Macedonia. info willcome soon

[seireikhaan]

Players must do investigations? This is IH, not mafia!

Anyways, I'll be Corinth.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

*BUMP*

[Lord Winter]

Athens if you could please.

[Caius]

Yes. I will not play in this game, I will moderate. Please post any kind of info you have.

[Julian the apostate]

Is this just Greece or does it include Ionia and the other Greek colonies such as Massilla, Syracuse and sicily and then taras and some of libya? If we are allowed to be outside of mainland greece I'd love to take Syracuse... If not then I suppose Thebes

[Caius]

You are allowed to be outside Greece.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

You are allowed to be outside Greece.

Sweet then im changing to the colony of Taras.

[Paradox]

Can I choose the Tarentines, you know, of Tarentum?

[Caius]

Arent the Tarentines the same as the colony of Taras?

[Paradox]

In that case, I'll just be Sparta, I'm surprised nobody chose them yet.

[Caius]

[Paradox]

Heh, so is that a yes or a no?

[Caius]

Indeed.

[Caius]

We will start then. Without having any kind of information about any city-state, I will look for it.

!rules

The Rules

1)Use this thread for public declarations and speeches. You may use propaganda and declare wars (Diplomacy) here publicly, and make announcements and speeches.
(a) Whatever you say IC in this thread I take into account for the next chapter. If you say things against another nations people then those people will dislike you.
(b) Beware what you say religious wise, its a important factor for this Interactive. You could spark a Religious War.

2) I make One Chapter with the choices to the end, it is your job to use those choices as a base for more detailed choices.
(a) The person who puts more effort in is the person more likely to win.
(b) If you give skungy orders I may take it upon myself to punish you. Not fair? THen put in good orders!

3) Don't worry about research and the likes, this game goes off the rails history wise. Many things will happen which didn't occur back then.
(a) But it may be a good idea to compare situations to real life ones!

4)The objective of this game is to stay united and keep one religion. I assure you, at some point in this game you will have a Nation which is riddled by about 4 Religions. When there is more then 1 Religion, there is something called Religious Unrest. COntrol this how you want, killings, diplomacy, etc. But if it reaches %100 then you've got a Religious War o your hands, and trust me, there not pretty.
(a) To communicate with the Religious Rebels, PM me. I will then pass it onto the rebels (*wink*) and they will reply to you.

5)Diplomacy is run by PM'ing the Player you which to talk to. Remember, when deals are signed either
(a) Declare it publicly
(b) If you don't want another certian Player to know something, then PM it to me.


6)Remember, always post IC, and try and Role Play your Character a bit! Don't be boring and post every month your decisions! I want speeches! I want drama!

Stolen from Baby Boomer, sorry, I had to have rules from somewhere.

Now, if you have info, post it.

[Paradox]

When are you going to PM us the force info? Sparta's hungry.

[Vorian]

I would like to participate but don't know exactly what we do


Could you pm me an explanation?

[Caius]

When are you going to PM us the force info? Sparta's hungry.

I don't have any info of anyone, how on Sparta can I get info from?

Pming Vorian, potential player.

[Spartan198]

That's funny,lol. I'm not interested in the game right now,I just had to respond to this.

[Lord Winter]

Spartans, Thebians. Corinthians, brothers and my fellow Greeks the time has come where we must once again pick up the sword to defend Greece again in its time of need against the invasion of the Persians. Do we wish to be subjects to his vast empire that we all know that the brave men of Greece are superior to? It is a time for action, a time for preparation a time where we must not be caught off guard. Already in Athens from my house I can hear the sounds of axes thudding away in the ship yard building ships that will strike fear into the hearts of the Persians. As I go about doing my part in our cities preparation for the coming war my heart swells with pride when I hear the sound of citizens drilling in preparation to defend there home. City states of Greece, Xerses of Persia is gathering a great army in Asia minor and I can say with pride that Athens is ready to meet them. We call on all city states to gather their men for battle, let us take up the spear, hoist the sail of the trimere and together by the gods when the Persians come we shall shake them.


Athens is ready and mobilizing and who will stand with us?

[seireikhaan]

Athens,

Corinth shall proudly stand by our fellow Greeks in time of greater peril. Persia is a threat which none of us have yet faced, far greater than our petty squables. We, Corinth, shall stand by Athens to defend the Greek societies from the barbarians of Persia who would put us under foot. Likewise to our Athenian allies, we call upon the other cities to stand together when such great forces, with far greater differences than our own, comes to beat us into submission, or worse, slavery.

[Gaius Scribonius Curio]

I would like to participate but don't know exactly what we do


Could you pm me an explanation?

I'd like to echo Vorian, I'd be interested but I have no idea how this works!

[Vorian]

I will be Thessaly!!!

Do I need to pm the info?

[Caius]

Or post it here.

Gaius, nice to see you here. I will resend the same PM i sent to Vorian, so u can understand this IH.

[Vorian]

Info on Thessaly:

Thessaly (thes'ulē) [key], largest ancient region of Greece in N central Greece. It corresponded roughly to the present-day nomes of Larissa and Tríkkala, which form part of the modern region known as Thessaly. Ancient Thessaly was almost completely walled in by mountains, including Pindus, Ossa, and Othrys (now Othrís), and the plains were extremely fertile. Civilization dates from prehistoric times. Before 1000 B.C. a tribe called the Thessalians entered the area from the northwest. The chief Thessalian cities, Larissa, Crannon, and Pherae, were oligarchical. The great families were the Aleuadae (at Larissa) and the Scopadae (at Crannon). The Thessalians were powerful in the 6th cent. B.C., partly through their control of the Amphictyonic League (see amphictyony). Conflict between the oligarchies, however, contributed to Thessaly's decline. Jason, the tyrant of Pherae, succeeded (374 B.C.) in uniting Thessaly, which again became a force in Greece, but it did not remain powerful for long and was subjugated (344 B.C.) by Philip II of Macedon.

Later, in ancient Greek times, the lowlands of Thessaly became the home of baronial families, such as the Aleuads of Larissa or the Scopads of Crannon. These baronial families organized a federation across the Thessaly region, later went on to control the Amphictyonic League in northern Greece. The Thessalians were renowned for their cavalry.

During the Greco-Persian Wars the Aleuads joined the Persians. In the Peloponnesian War the Thessalians tended to side with Athens and usually prevented Spartan troops from crossing through their territory with the exception of the army of Brasidas. In the 4th century BC Thessaly became dependent on Macedon and many served as vassals.

I will role play it that a guy named Dionysius Aleuas from the Aleuadae of Larissa has united all Thessaly.