The Line of Alexandros and Pyrrhos. A Makedonian AAR
Chairete!
This AAR will probably not be that very well written, I’ll probably not be able to update this very often, and since English isn’t my first language and ancient Greek isn’t my first language :cheesy: either there is bound to be some spelling and/or grammar inaccuracies. I'm not sure if I’m going to do “in-depth battle commentaries” (or whatever it’s called) or just the empire thingy.
Nevertheless despite the many flaws I’m sure this AAR will have I hope you will all enjoy reading it.
In this AAR I will often render names and some words using the Greek alphabet, which may take I while for you as the reader to get used to. Hopefully it add some character to the AAR, making it at least somewhat unique.
Here is a brief summary/first chapter of my empire. I've lost all save games up to 193 BC, that's why I don’t have that many pictures in this entry up to this point, I will have more pictures later on however.
Chapter one: The Basileis ton Arche Makedonike
The Antigonid ΒΑΣΕΛΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ (and other noteworthy members of the Antigonid line):
1. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΟΣ ΓΟΝΑΤΑΣ: (Reign 272 - 259 BC), it was he who defended the Makedonian homelands from ΠΥΡΡὉΣ, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΕΙΡΟΣ and conquered the southern Hellenic City states, Athenai and Sparte. Before his death he launched an invasion of Epeiros, but succumbed to a fever before any decisive battles were fought.
2. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΑΛΚΥΟΝΕΟΣ ΝΙΚΑΤΟΡ: (Reign 259 - 228 BC) In his youth he conquered Dardonia as well as the islands of Crete and Rhodos. Later when his father died it was who he took command of the royal forces and defeated ΠΥΡΡὉΣ and thus put an end to the Epeirot threat to Makedonia. Rather than establishing a Satrapy he integrated Epeiros directly into the Makedonian homelands and many Epeirots were given Makedonian citizenship, which ensured their loyalty. When the Ptolemaio attacked the Arche Seleukeia and seized most of their western holdings, ΑΛΚΥΟΝΕΟΣ responded quickly. By 232 BC he had conquered all of Asia Minor and the Levant. When he entered Hierosolyma he made sure his army made as little damage as possible, and he allowed the Ioudaioi to practise their own religion and all temples devoted to another god than the Judean one were banned within the city walls. The Ioudaioi were even allowed to keep their independence and would only have to form a strong alliance with the Makedones, an alliance the Ioudaioi were happy to form. The Ioudaioi hailed ΑΛΚΥΟΝΕΟΣ as a grand saviour and gave him high honours, to the extent that he was as celebrated as Kyros the Great. One day when ΑΛΚΥΟΝΕΟΣ was going for a walk a young man walked up to him with a dagger in his hand. He stabbed him 12 times in the chest and surprised with his dying breath ΑΛΚΥΟΝΕΟΣ said: “What was it all for?” The young man was a poor junior officer from Athenai who was enraged by the lack of loot during the conquest of Hierosolyma and whose parents back in Hellas depended on the mnai he sent them. In a matter of seconds after the Basileus’s death the murderer was cut down by the Hypaspistai Royal corps. ΑΛΚΥΟΝΕΟΣ truly established Makedonia as a major power, one that would come to shape the course of history forever.
3. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΠΕΡΣΕΥΣ (Reign 228 – 212 BC) When his father battled the Ptolemaio in Minor Asia and the Levant, ΠΕΡΣΕΥΣ “took the fight” to the enemy’s “homeland”, Aigyptos. The Ptolemaio did not suspect this and was forced to flee to Meroe, in Nubia while Makedonia conquered all of their other holdings. Later after the death of ΑΛΚΥΟΝΕΟΣ they were forced to sign a very humiliating peace treaty with the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ.
When ΠΕΡΣΕΥΣ was crowned ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ entered a short period of peace and prosperity, one that would last until the betrayal of the Arche Seleukeia in 216 BC. A long and bitter war between the former allies was at hand, one that ended in Makedonian victory and the inclusion of Hayasdan and Babylonia in the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ. In the spring of 214 BC the forces of Kart-Hadast without a warning or declaration of war, invaded Aigyptos. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΠΕΡΣΕΥΣ rode out to meet them and won many a heroic victory. But at the end there were too many of the Karthadastei and he and his mobile forces were annihilated by the sons of Baal-Hammon, and thus he perished in 212 BC, leaving the throne to his second son ΣΕΛΕΦΚΟΣ aged only 17 years old.
4. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΣΕΛΕΦΚΟΣ (Reign 212 – 195 BC)
When ΣΕΛΕΦΚΟΣ arrived in Aigyptos he pushed the Kart-Hadastei out of there with great difficulty. He conquered Kyrene and seized the site of the Oracle of Ammon known as Ammonion. A prophesy was offer to him by the Oracle, though being an ignorant and anti-religious, inbreed buffoon, he rejected the offer and went further westwards, towards Kart-Hadast. News arrived that the ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ’s son had died under suspicious circumstances, and because of these turn of events the ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ fell into a deep depression, one that interfered with his “work”.
For a short period of time he held the city in his grasp, but was in 198 BC he was forced to fall back towards Aigyptos. The Kart-Hadastei was impressed by his prowess in combat and so they wanted the war to come to an end. Neither side hade anything to win on prolonged conflict, for both the ΑΡΧΕ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΕ and the Safot Softim biQarthadast, had lost many men and mnai. So in 197 BC there was at last peace between the two rival nations. On his return to Aigyptos in 195 BC he was assassinated, by a robed figure, seemingly of Makedonian origin. He was able to escape but, he dropped an important piece of evidence, the signet ring of ΠΕΡΔΙΚΚΑΣ (Perdikkas), the corrupt and selfish brother of the Basileus. He himself claimed that the assassin was of Punic origin, sent from Kart-Hadast. He had planed to proclaim himself as ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ and his son ΕΥΒΟΥΛΙΔΕΣ as his heir. He had been governing Syria for the past 20 years and most of his supporters were there as well. The popular Strategos ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ and his family however decided to stand against this great injustice for the greater good of the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ. With no ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ruling the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ at the moment, civil war seemed inevitable. During this period of uncertainty the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ was vulnerable to attack, and the Arche Seleukeia was not late to exploit this weakness. The Second Seleukidai war lasted for only a year, and the Seleukidai were able to restore their rule to Babylonia. In 194 BC Saba declares war on Makedonia, and lays siege to Petra and Bostra.
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, his family and the ΒΑΣΕΛΕΙΣ of the line of ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ and ΠΥΡΡὉΣ:
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, the nephew of ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΟΣ ΓΟΝΑΤΑΣ were put in charge of an army and was to Illyria, a lawless region from which many pirates hailed from. The intent of this trip was to stop the constant pirate raids on Makedonia, and to hopefully subjugate the people of the land. Before travelling to Illyria however he married an Epeirote princess named Chryse. She was the only surviving member of the Aeakid dynasty and daughter of ΠΥΡΡὉΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΕΙΡΟΣ and the marriage was to cement the relations between the two families. Thus the family of ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ and ΠΥΡΡὉΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΕΙΡΟΣ was forged into one and all children of ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ could claim descent from ΠΥΡΡὉΣ and even ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ (!)
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ nevertheless dealt with the pirate problem and he and his descendants were to govern Illyria and eventually other regions further westwards.
In 265 BC the First Romaioi war brook out, and ΑΓΙΣ, first born son of ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ led the Makedonian forces in opposition. The war ended with Makedonian triumph and the Romaioi were forced to part with northern Italia, a region the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ gave to their Keltoi allies, the Arveni to act as a buffer.
1. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ (Born 235 BC) (Reign 193- 173 BC)
When the Second Romaioi war broke out ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ, the son of ΑΓΙΣ and great grandson of ΠΥΡΡὉΣ was given command of the Makedonian forces. During his campaign, he was fascinated by the road systems of the Romaioi and also their military composition. After barely surviving an ambush by the flexible forces of the SPQR, he decided that a Makedonian version of these troops would be useful, and thus the Makedonian Thorakitai was born. Following in the footsteps of his father and great grandfather he crushed the Romaioi and ensured that they would never threaten Makedonia again. After leaving Itaila in the care of his brother he set sail towards Makedonia. For Civil War seemed inevitable and ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ, being an unselfish person could not let the tyrant impostor take the throne of Makedonia into his filthy hands.
ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ was crowned ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ in the winter of 193 BC, and left for the Syria where ΠΕΡΔΙΚΚΑΣ and his few supporters were. When he arrived he fought a fierce battle against the forces of ΠΕΡΔΙΚΚΑΣ at the Syrian fields, outside of Antiocheia. In the end his veterans easily defeated the forces of the impostor. ΠΕΡΔΙΚΚΑΣ son was spared, for he was too young to be put to blame for his father’s crimes, this choice was questioned by many however. After this ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ turned his attention towards the Arche Seleukeia, where he used his Thorakitai army to great effect during the war and in 185 BC he had re-conquered Babylonia and also conquered Media. The Seleukidai forces were crushed with such ease that those in the eastern part of the Arche that had previously thought of rebellion, were now discouraged to continue with their plans. And so they accepted ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ as their ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ, for now…
ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ were able to return to Pella the next spring and during the following years he made radical military reforms, completely replacing the Phalangitai with Thorakitai as the new rank and file soldiers.
Vast building projects across Makedonia were being built, among those romaioi styled roads, which would help the armies of Makedonia to quickly reach their destination. When the Second Kart-Hadstei War began in 173 BC ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ sent his only son ΝΕΙΚΩΝ, a man destined for greatness, to Africa. ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ also ordered the Klerios family (a petty noble family) to deal with the Sabyn. After having dealt with the Sabyn armies on Makedonike soil the Klerios family travelled south down the Red Sea, towards South Arabia. The Sabyn were confined to their homelands and the surrounding tribes became client kingdoms of the ΑΡΧΕ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΕ, any official peace treaty was never signed however.
ΙΣΟΔΟΡΙΑΝΟΣ past away quietly in his sleep a week after his son’s departure, knowing that for the time being the ΑΡΧΕ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΕ was safe.
2. ΝΕΙΚΩΝ ΝΙΚΑΤΩΡ (Reign 173- ? BC) ΝΕΙΚΩΝ ΝΙΚΑΤΩΡ won many heroic victories against the Kart-Hadast and conquered all their lands. He even conquered all of Iberia and started training Thorakitai from amongst the Libikoi and Keltoi as a sort of auxiliary force, the Thorakitai’s training and equipment were also to be financed by the state after ΝΕΙΚΩΝ ΝΙΚΑΤΩΡ’s refoms. Following the return of the Basileus to the capital the people were ecstatic, for they have waited many years for their hero to return from his bold campaigning in the west. He just like his father had the "man of the people" aura about him and the Charisma needed to influence people around him. By the historians of the Arche he is regarded as the greatest military leader Makedonia have ever had, possibly to be rivalled by his son. ΝΕΙΚΩΝ ΝΙΚΑΤΩΡ also gave Makedonian citizenship to all Hellenes within the ΑΡΧΕ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΕ, and financed major art projects around the ΑΡΧΕ. Hellenic culture flourished under his rule and all of mainland Hellas was included directly into the Makedonian homelands.
3. ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΔΕΣ first son of ΝΕΙΚΩΝ ΝΙΚΑΤΩΡ shows great promise as both a governor and a general and he have received the best training and the best education available.
The extent of the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ as of 152 BC:
https://i760.photobucket.com/albums/...tons/Karta.jpg
Greek names and words:
Thank you all for reading. :bow:
Comments/input? (not too harsh please :sweatdrop:)
Re: The Line of Alexandros and Pyrrhos. A Makedonian AAR
ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!! Great empire =]
Now, ONWARD! Push into Baktra!!!
Re: The Line of Alexandros and Pyrrhos. A Makedonian AAR
Nice overview on your faction progress, Arthy.
I see that you've conquered Carthage, you know i don't like that! :clown:
Re: The Line of Alexandros and Pyrrhos. A Makedonian AAR
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satalexton
ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!! Great empire =]
Now, ONWARD! Push into Baktra!!!
Thanks! :bow:
BTW what is thank you/thanks in ancient greek?
Oh and what is ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA in greek? :book: (Chairete Makedonia sounds a bit odd..:dizzy2:)
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Originally Posted by
Jebivjetar
Nice overview on your faction progress, Arthy.
I see that you've conquered Carthage, you know i don't like that! :clown:
Thank you my friend, I did treat the population with respect though, as a true Romaioktonoi. :knight:
I'll probably have another update up by next week-end or next week. :juggle2:
Re: The Line of Alexandros and Pyrrhos. A Makedonian AAR
I have some bad news... When fiddling with the EB files today I managed to lose all my save-games. :wall: So I'm afraid I have to declare this AAR dead.. Thanks for reading and commenting (Sata and Jeb) and hopefully if I make another AAR it will not end as quickly as this one.
Re: The Line of Alexandros and Pyrrhos. A Makedonian AAR
That is unfortunate. You were quite along in that campaign and had a lot happen. Hope you try again.
Re: The Line of Alexandros and Pyrrhos. A Makedonian AAR
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MarcusAureliusAntoninus
That is unfortunate. You were quite along in that campaign and had a lot happen. Hope you try again.
Thank you for your kind words. :bow:
