PershsNhpios
02-13-2008, 03:23
I have played a Getic campaign, a Swabian and a Sabaean campaign in the hope I would find time for an AAR in each.
However, I could not. Yet I still wish to contribute here an account of something related.
So this shall not be the story of an empire, but the short story of a battle from a campaign of my choosing which I remember well.
It will be a few-post AAR.
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QVAERERE.PRO.ADMIRATVM
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The Getic Throne is such that the world demonstrates itself about the boundaries of her conquests.
She is a command who grew steadily from amidst the minds of the Transylvanian peoples and with time brought all of them under the same ambition.
The Getic Kingdom looks toward the setting sun and borders on that sea which is named the Adriatic by the Latin nations, and runs along it's coastline by Illyria to the countries of the Aitoloi and Peloponnessus.
Towards the rising sun, Getia crosses the Aegean and runs her influence past the Tauri into the city of Tarsos, and North into Galatia.
She grinds against the wilderness of the Pontic population and covers two thirds of that peninsula which is named Asia in the Western language.
On these perimeters, the law of Getic rule is constantly challenged by the minor kingdoms of Seludava and Toladava.
Against the upper pole, the Getic Throne holds the tribe of the Bastarnae under dominion, and annexes the Bosphoran peninsula and Sarmatian holdings as one seperate government.
At the opposite end of this, the entire Aegean is dominated by the enforcement of Dacian fleets, and Crete establishes itself as the southern-most point of the Kingdom.
For a great time, the Hellenic and Macedonian people were shares of a faithful and flourished alliance.
Yet 49 years after the annexing of Bizandava, the Macedonian King Lysias declared war upon the western Kingdom of Epirus.
The Hellenic League, which comprised of a handful of cities spread widely across the Mediterranean, (Sharing nothing other than culture), chose abruptly to support Epirus, and broke their neutrality.
At this time, Getia was the supervising military force, whose wars had not left the Balkans.
Yet, when solicitations became earnest and frequent in support of Epirus, and in disgust of the Macedonian belligerence, King Seuthes I bade his commanders, Tarsos and Seuthes of Rekidava return from the wars in Sarmatia, and lead a new levy against the Macedonian capitol, Pella.
Seuthes was at this time ordering ships of pillaging and war to be built in Olbia, a large settlement not four thousand paces from the field in which Davos of Yuridava was killed in the first war against the Bosphoran tribes.
(A war in which the Dacian commanders reformed the army - and included Skythian archers and horse for support - allies became more frequent from this battle).
It was Seuthes of Rekidava himself who persisted in the ambition of Davos - to lead an army across the Dacian Sea and into the countries of the Hai.
To bring the Caucasus under Getic control.
Later Seuthes would attempt this with a new levy, and the army - whilst waiting in view of Armavir, (The Hai capitol), for reinforcements from Olbia - would be ambushed and cut to pieces by an army led by the King of Hayasdan.
Seuthes commanded Tarsos remain at Olbia and see the ships produced, and returned via the Road of Buridava to the city of Tylis, where he sent out officers into all parts of Thrace to summon a levy.
The structure of the Getic battle line was this;
Four light phalanx, in the style of the southern people, with one or two heavily armoured phalanx on the left.
These were supported by Carpathian allies armed with falxes, the right was supported by Greek allies who fought in the traditional hoplite manner.
Close and tight behind the phalanx line were several companies of Bosphoran and Skythian Archers, the one renowned for their melee ability, the latter for the range of their bows.
And a host of Skythian horse always flew ahead of the army in order to give brilliant navigation and harrass the enemy.
An army in this order being levied from the southern province, Seuthes ordered the horse to pass through the Balkans via Serdike and fall upon the Macedonian state.
He followed himself with the army at a running march.
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I hope it will suffice for the reader without screenshots - I may add some towards the end - but this is going off my memory from a past campaign.
There was no planning, so this is all quite improvised.. Ha!
You can probably see I borrow strongly from an ancient man who I quite adore the memory of, yet I wanted to, without mocking his brilliance in literature.
Perhaps this will bring some entertainment.
I imagine it will be finished within a few posts.
However, I could not. Yet I still wish to contribute here an account of something related.
So this shall not be the story of an empire, but the short story of a battle from a campaign of my choosing which I remember well.
It will be a few-post AAR.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
QVAERERE.PRO.ADMIRATVM
http://img36.picoodle.com/img/img36/4/2/13/f_SSH2m_507b98e.jpg (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/4/2/13/f_SSH2m_507b98e.jpg&srv=img36)
The Getic Throne is such that the world demonstrates itself about the boundaries of her conquests.
She is a command who grew steadily from amidst the minds of the Transylvanian peoples and with time brought all of them under the same ambition.
The Getic Kingdom looks toward the setting sun and borders on that sea which is named the Adriatic by the Latin nations, and runs along it's coastline by Illyria to the countries of the Aitoloi and Peloponnessus.
Towards the rising sun, Getia crosses the Aegean and runs her influence past the Tauri into the city of Tarsos, and North into Galatia.
She grinds against the wilderness of the Pontic population and covers two thirds of that peninsula which is named Asia in the Western language.
On these perimeters, the law of Getic rule is constantly challenged by the minor kingdoms of Seludava and Toladava.
Against the upper pole, the Getic Throne holds the tribe of the Bastarnae under dominion, and annexes the Bosphoran peninsula and Sarmatian holdings as one seperate government.
At the opposite end of this, the entire Aegean is dominated by the enforcement of Dacian fleets, and Crete establishes itself as the southern-most point of the Kingdom.
For a great time, the Hellenic and Macedonian people were shares of a faithful and flourished alliance.
Yet 49 years after the annexing of Bizandava, the Macedonian King Lysias declared war upon the western Kingdom of Epirus.
The Hellenic League, which comprised of a handful of cities spread widely across the Mediterranean, (Sharing nothing other than culture), chose abruptly to support Epirus, and broke their neutrality.
At this time, Getia was the supervising military force, whose wars had not left the Balkans.
Yet, when solicitations became earnest and frequent in support of Epirus, and in disgust of the Macedonian belligerence, King Seuthes I bade his commanders, Tarsos and Seuthes of Rekidava return from the wars in Sarmatia, and lead a new levy against the Macedonian capitol, Pella.
Seuthes was at this time ordering ships of pillaging and war to be built in Olbia, a large settlement not four thousand paces from the field in which Davos of Yuridava was killed in the first war against the Bosphoran tribes.
(A war in which the Dacian commanders reformed the army - and included Skythian archers and horse for support - allies became more frequent from this battle).
It was Seuthes of Rekidava himself who persisted in the ambition of Davos - to lead an army across the Dacian Sea and into the countries of the Hai.
To bring the Caucasus under Getic control.
Later Seuthes would attempt this with a new levy, and the army - whilst waiting in view of Armavir, (The Hai capitol), for reinforcements from Olbia - would be ambushed and cut to pieces by an army led by the King of Hayasdan.
Seuthes commanded Tarsos remain at Olbia and see the ships produced, and returned via the Road of Buridava to the city of Tylis, where he sent out officers into all parts of Thrace to summon a levy.
The structure of the Getic battle line was this;
Four light phalanx, in the style of the southern people, with one or two heavily armoured phalanx on the left.
These were supported by Carpathian allies armed with falxes, the right was supported by Greek allies who fought in the traditional hoplite manner.
Close and tight behind the phalanx line were several companies of Bosphoran and Skythian Archers, the one renowned for their melee ability, the latter for the range of their bows.
And a host of Skythian horse always flew ahead of the army in order to give brilliant navigation and harrass the enemy.
An army in this order being levied from the southern province, Seuthes ordered the horse to pass through the Balkans via Serdike and fall upon the Macedonian state.
He followed himself with the army at a running march.
--------------------------------------------------------
I hope it will suffice for the reader without screenshots - I may add some towards the end - but this is going off my memory from a past campaign.
There was no planning, so this is all quite improvised.. Ha!
You can probably see I borrow strongly from an ancient man who I quite adore the memory of, yet I wanted to, without mocking his brilliance in literature.
Perhaps this will bring some entertainment.
I imagine it will be finished within a few posts.