Chapter 1 : Uniting Greece (Part V)

Prince of Sparte, Akrotatos has become a good tactician from his past experiences in battle and some time studying in the great Academy of Athenai.


He then, as planned, attacks the Makedonians outside Athernai, severely outnumbered they retreat behind Chalkis without a fight.


He then marches his army to confront the small Makedonian army outside Chalkis, without a fight, they too retreat south of Chalkis. With the withdrawl of the smaller Makedonian army, Akrotatos is free to lay seige on Chalkis, just as he had told the Council.


After a season his battering rams are finished, and he decides to assault the measly wooden palisade. Outnumbering the Makedonians by over 500 men, Akrotatos goes into the battle full of confidence.


Akrotatos begins to set up his army, missile infront, followed by the rams, then behind that lines of phalanx, new recruits in the front, with himself and the veterans in the rear.


He moves the army forward, phalanxs out of reach from the towers on the wall, the rams continue forward to the walls. Well short of the walls the archers hault and fire on a unit of levy hoplites, where a bit closer the peltest hault and also lay harrassing fire.


Akrotatos moves the phalanx's forward as the walls start to fall, and as the rams breach the cities outer defenses over 1/5 of the enemy army has been killed by our missiles.


Akrotatos splits the first line into 3 groups and sends them into the city of Chalkis, with the hoplites that were operating the battering ram.


Captain Admentos of the army reinforcing Makedonia, charges the new recruits who just ran through the gates!


As Captain Admentos' calvary is slaughtered he retreats back towards the city's plaza, where his life comes to a sudden hault and an arrow pierces the upper-left part of his back. Multiple arrows hit his horse and causes it to jerk and send him to the ground and soon after, his horse.



Akrotatos has entered the city as this is happening, and sets up in a phalanx inbetween the buildings. In an attempt to revenge the death of Captain Admentos, Captain Athenodoros charges the Spartan phalanx!


The first wave of calvary is routed soon after attacking the phalanx.


The Captain than soon turns his unit around and begins to throw javalins at the Spartan line. Akrotatos then charges the enemy calvary and withen seconds of the engagement the Captain was killed, leaving the garrison leaderless.


The Makedonian untrained hoplites hesitantly approach the Spartan line.


The Spartans, suffering only 4 deaths by the end of the first engagement send the enemy cowering back to the plaza.


Akrotatos then resets his bodygaurds back into the phalanx and told them to hold their ground. He then sends part of the army up another street to greet the enemy in the plaza.


Wave after wave of peltests, levy hoplites, and other missile units run into Spartan shields, soon to be introduced to the Spartan spear.


The last retreating wave runs into the army sent up the side street, and fighting breaks out near the plaza. Akrotatos rushes his men into the fray, where the only Makedonian unit not involved was the levy phalanx in the plaza. His army destroys the missile units and calvary and then engages the phalanx, while he repositions himself behind the phalanx. He then charges the poor levies from the rear!


Squeezed by the hoplite phalanx, the Makedonians are helpless.


Akrotatos and his bodygaurd kill 300 men that day out of over 800 Makedonians, losing only 4 of their own men. The army sustains less than 100 casualties and Chalkis is liberated!





Makedonian buildings are torn down for material in Chalkis, hoping to kick start the rebuilding process. With a Makedonian presence still in Chalkis, Akrotatos sneaks to Athenai where he is to update the Council on his victories in Chalkis...