Swapping Chalkis for Thessalonica

[Jolt]

Antioch was formed even after Thessalonica was built and was only finished being built after the game starts, yet it was still a major city. So why wouldn't Thessalonica be?

We need an EB member to come and tell us whether Thessalonica was a major city during 272bc.

I'm not sure if Thessalonike was formed before Antioch. In any case, Thessalonike never played an important role in history in this time, as has Antioch (Being the capital of the Seleucids). Thessalonike was just an autonomous city-state and little more I know through until Roman days.

EDIT: Seeing Thalakos post in the Open Beta Thread, actually Antioch was founded a year before Thessalonike.

[Mithridates VI Eupator]

I think it is right to keep Chalkis. It is an interesting province, gamplay-wise, and it was one of the three important Macedonian strongholds in Hellas. And as the other two, Demetrias and Akrokorinth are in, removing Chalkis would make no sense. Althogh representing Thessalonica with a perma-fort would be rather nice, I think.
If you should remove a province, I think that the province in the baltic called "Auvajgotanoz", or something, representing the island of Gotland, would be a better candidate.
But then again, that's not up to me to decide...

(It's a funny province, though)

[soibean]

I went to the link above and read through the post concerning Thessalonica. You said that the important cities were "Pella, Philippi, Kassandreia, and Amphipolis". Did you mean within that one region or within all of the Macedonian territories?

[Jolt]

I went to the link above and read through the post concerning Thessalonica. You said that the important cities were "Pella, Philippi, Kassandreia, and Amphipolis". Did you mean within that one region or within all of the Macedonian territories?

That one region (Macedonia Homelands). Another example he gave was Demetria, which is in Thessaly (Not Macedonia Homelands historically)

EDIT: This map represents the Macedonian Homelands.