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Amras
11-02-2013, 17:20
I’m bored waiting for my turn to play the Athens: Summer. Harvest. War (R2TW succession game) (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?145979-Athens-Summer-Harvest-War-%28R2TW-succession-game%29-10) and I can’t play my planned hictorical roman AAR before I have going some research ^^

I present:

The Federation of Hellenistic state: A Seleucid AAR

DLC and Mods:
All DLC incl blood pack
Radious Total War Mod
Better Campaign Camera
Zoom all the way down (battle camera)

Difficulty settings
Legendry


Prolog
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Your Majesty Antochos the first

Year after the murder of your father, you have success stabilize the kingdom. Alas, three of our Satrapy in the Far East had broken away from our hegemony and this was also a civil war in the Province of Parthia. A rebellious faction had declared independence from the satrapy of Parthava.

The other satrapies want also to declare independence unless we take care of the bad relationship. Our most loyal satrapies are Saredes by north and Meida by east.
Our settlement Edessa at the province of Mesopotamia is in a heavy tumult because of the cultural dispute. If we ignore the dispute, we can risk this develop to a revolt.
This is a political unrest at the Anatolian Peninsula by north. We need to keep an eye with the tumult but our satrapy of Sardes cannot stand alone against the violence in the peninsula. We need to attempt the pease and quiet at Anatolian Peninsula.

We have an emergency by south. Our relationship is in a bad standing with the Ptolemies of Egypt about the region of Jerusalem. We cannot reach an agreement about this ownership of the region and we need therefor take this with military force.

Yours servant

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The current king of Seleucid Dynasty

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Chapter I – The First Syrian War
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We are at present in war with Qidri and I have never understood why. Therefor a messenger is send to their leader to end the war. They happy accept our offer and pay 5000 fund to us.
In the meantime, we send up to 1000 fund every season to the tree eastern satrapies; Parthava, Aria and Sagarita. We need to improve our relationship with them.
An unknown faction is at war with Egypt and our enemy’s enemy is our friend. Therefor I send an offer to join the war against Cyprus for 4000 fund to Cyrenacia
Through an indirect declaration of war, my satrapies do not join the war too and then risk almost all declare independent from my hegemony.
We take the weak Cyprus unawares and their two coast settlements by storm. Unfortunately, their main army manages to escape and drive piracy.

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The First Syrian war finally ends with the destroyed of Egypt’s satrapy Cyprus. For now nothing of ours satrapies have declaration independent from us. The regular pay of funds had help on our relationship with the satrapies.
Now we have to recruit more soldier before we invasive the border of Egypt.

Bramborough
11-02-2013, 17:54
Awesome, glad to see this! Looking forward to seeing a Seleucid AAR, as I'm not very familiar. Not only have I not played them, but I don't think any of my factions have ever even fought them. Nice quick strike on Cyprus. I like the maps.

Btw...what is the proper way to refer to the Seleucids in one word, as a noun rather than adjective? Seleucos? Seleucia? Sometimes "Seleucid Empire" just sounds too unwieldy...

Sp4
11-03-2013, 18:51
Yay, more AARs :D Looking forward to this.

Myth
11-04-2013, 08:58
Great! You know, legend has it that the .org thrived on AARs, RPGs and succession games in the past. Looks like that the need is still there for such activities amongst more creative TW fans :2thumbsup: