Anabasis Pyrrhou - An Epeirote AAR

[Phalanx300]

It isn't really that big a exploit. Only in the way that the AI doesn't move to a more favorable position.

And it did happen in History, when the Makedonians and the Romans clashed the Makedonians pushed back the Romans in Cynoscefalai I believe. They were fighting from the high ground.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

It isn't really that big a exploit. Only in the way that the AI doesn't move to a more favorable position.

And it did happen in History, when the Makedonians and the Romans clashed the Makedonians pushed back the Romans in Cynoscefalai I believe. They were fighting from the high ground.

And what was the outcome of the Dog's Head??? Romani victrix

[HunGeneral]

Well if we think about it: putting Phalangites on level ground on top of a hill so that the sarissas tip reaches to the point where the enemy gets to the more "level" ground on top of the hill isn't unreallistic - they can balance the weapon and the enemy surely tires before they reach the top.

I know this isn't really the case here but if this becomes the situation then using you Phalagites in a way described above is (in my opinion) accepteable.

[Hax]

Chapter V - On the Roman Campaign

In that year, the 537th after the first Olympiad, as Ptolemaios prepared his army to move northwards towards Taras, did his great-nephew Seambys moved south through the Peleponessos and laid siege to the polis of Sparte herself. Many of the Spartan homioi at that point moved from their hometown and fled towards the poleis of Mikras Asias or far-off Emporion.



The only ones that remained in Sparte were some of the older citizens as well as the poorer citizens. Altogether, they hardly had enough soldiers to properly defend the polis.

Ptolemaios had at that time received messages from the polis of Neapolis, which had long been an ally of the Epirote throne, even before Pyrrhos became Basileos. The Romaioi were once again amassing their forces in Kampania. Ptolemaios perceived this as a threat and wasted no further time in Taras. He quickly amassed his forces once again. Before he left, he sent final word to Ambrakia to start levying forces once again in the city of Epidamnos; this due to the news that the Illyrioi tribes were raiding the north of Epiros.

Around the same time had Archimedes of Syrakousai composed his second map, detailing the extent of the Epirote kingdom.

Ptolemaios finally left Kalabria in spring, as the trees in Megale Hellas started blossoming and the air became fresh with the scent of lavander. Ptolemaios' force marched for three months without encountering any form of resistance, and before the summer sun scorched the Kalabrian shore they had reached the Romani stronghold at Arpoi. There Ptolemaios set up his camp and prepared for a siege of the city.

Messengers from Taras came and went to Ptolemaios during autumn and continuing into the mild winter of Megale Hellas. Most came with the news of new constructions in Hellas, seeing how the mainland of Hellas was now flourishing due to the immense increase of trade due to the alliance between the kings of Seleukeia and the Epirote kingdom and the undisturbed mining in Thraikia since the unification of Hellas and Thraikia.





In the islands of the west the followers of Sarapis and Isis were spreading their faith, and the city of Korinthos was once again merged with the Epirote kingdom as before the Spartan invasion. Taras was preparing for possible attacks and was thus preparing barracks and military complexes for the levies and the town of Rhegion was preparing for the new sewage system by completing the process of sanitanization. Finally, the city of Μαρσαλα or Lilibeo in the speech of the Phoenicians was once again engaging in trade with the Karchedonoi since the peace treaty of Syrakousai signed several years earlier. The re-engagement of trade resulted in the expansion of the natural harbours of Marsala.

Before long however, the Romaioi sent a force to relieve the siege of Arpoi. Battle was coming.



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Woohoo! It's back, I finally managed to get some time free. Thanks for your comments everybody.

Titus Marcellus Scato: I do not regard myself as an expert on phalangite combat, so I had no idea. I might mind it in the future.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Hey, I read your Anabasis, you read mine...

I thought your AAR dead to be honest - great to see that I was mistaken! I like you writing style. Didn't know that the Greeks called Lilibeo Μαρσαλα - I just "graecisized" it in my campaign to Λιλυβαιον.

[Hax]

I don't know whether they called it that, though the Wikipedia entry for Lilybaeum redirects to Marsala.

[johnhughthom]

Woah, back from the dead! Strangely I mentioned this in another AAR a few days ago and now it's back.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

I don't know whether they called it that, though the Wikipedia entry for Lilybaeum redirects to Marsala.

German Wikipedia says Marsala means "Port of Allah" and was introduced by Arabs in the 9th century. But then it's only Wikipedia...