Arche Megales Hellados - The Preserver of Peace
This is an AAR that I decided to write while I was playing a KH campaign starting from Syrakousai (I used move_character and let my holdings on greece get taken over by the Maks) while intoxicated. This is my first AAR, and I hope to take ideas from you guys so to make this semi-interactive in a sense. =]
Anyhow, this is the prologue =] enjoy.
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Chapter 0 - Hiero’s Legacy.
It all started 5 decades ago, my grandfather was amongst the many that fled Sparte and Athina when the Macedonians forcefully occupied the Peloponnisos and Attica. Many leagues they traveled and they sought refuge with Hiero of Syrakousai. In the several years of peace that followed, our people accustomed themselves with the way of the Magna Graecia and settled. This peace did not last however, as the Phoenicians have their own machinations on Magna Graecia. They make good merchants and seamen, but are no friends of the Hellenes.
Thrice they attacked us, fruitless at best. Their mistophoroi and elephantes made a great show of themselves, but ultimately prove to be nothing under our spears and javalins. My father was amongst the many that fought and expelled the Phoenicians from Lilibeo. True to their merchantile ways, they settled for peace and continued to trade with us to this day...for now. However, they were just one of the many neighbours that clashed with us.
To our north, the polis of Taras went into dispute with the war-like latins of Roma. An Epirote by the name of Pyrrhos was invited against them. Despite the superiority of Greek arms, their numbers proved to be a match. Yet, it was not our dispute; we got on with our lives. War is not of our nature, the Epirotes want to carve their own arche at the expense of the Latins, such was their true intents.
The gods of Olympus must have plans for us. A decade before my birth, Hiero called our fathers to arms again. Rhegion, a place rich both in trade and mines, drew the greed of the Epirotes and Romans alike. We Hellenes are a people of honor, and the people of Rhegion are our allies. Our fathers thus embarked upon a campaign to preserve Magna Graecia from the clutches of greed.
Hiero was truly a great hegemon. Within a year the Epirotes withdrew from Taras and sought for peace. My father met my mother here after he discharged and here he stayed.
My Father during his young days against the Epirotes.
There were many stories of how Mega Hiero expelled the senate of Latinium to Patavium, but all began with him raising a new and reformed army from the many polis of Magna Graecia when the Latins, perhaps a trial set about by Ares; perhaps simply out of greed, sent their armies upon us.
Some said he could call upon the god to make armies simply vanish to a faraway place(*cough* >_>), other said he was capable of taking on a thousand men with only him and his bodyguards.(*cough* <_<) Whatever is was, what was certain, was that Hiero was the founding father of Arche Mega Graecia, a lustrous land stretching from Massalia to Lilibeo. My father earned himself a nice kleros in the process, tilled by some patricians-turned slaves from Roma, and lived fine life till age took him to Hades.
Just two short years ago, however, Mega Hiero finally succumbed to age, and his hegemon was passed unto his young adopted son, Megistias Rhodios. As his name suggests, Rhodoi blood runs in his veins, and coupled with his young age of 18, many question his abilities. Surely, the remnants of the Latins have been massing a large force from the Illyrioi population, and the Keltoi are surely up to no good. The Phoenians have encroached upon Emporion last year and are eyeing for Tolosa, a Keltoi settlement. If they take it, surely they’ll set their eyes on Massalia.
The Arche Magna Graecia that Hiero had fought so hard to forge is at stake, could the young Rhodoi preserve the peace?
-xxxxxxx 228BC
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The world as of 228BC
-=Ideas Needed=-
- Give our protagonist a name =] ("xxxxxxx" just don't cut it)
- Further Details of our protagonist and his exploits and decisions.
- The future of the Arche
- Any constructive suggestions.
Here's the save http://www.badongo.com/file/9310179 Note I use Alex.exe
Just pretend Megistias as the begining of the family tree for role-playing reasons. Consider everybody else as generals and descendants of those who fled from greece or simply immigrants.
I cannot guarantee the frequency of updating due to my abhuman lifestyle (usual student mess xD) but I shall try my best =]
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