January Screenshot Competition

[SwissBarbar]

"The way is shut...!"



(Actual KH campaign)
When the Armies of the Koinon Hellenon marched to conquer Antiocheia, the seleukid Satrap of Syria led his army to the border to Kilikia and awaited the superior hellenic forces at the strait passage between sea and mountains, on the road that leads from Tarsos to Antiocheia. When the Hellenes arrived, they slaughtered the seleukid ambassador and his unit of light infantery, when he went forward to prevail upon them to retreat.

The hellenes formed up their battle array and shouted to the Seleukids, they should clear the way and retreat to Edessa or die here. The Satrap of Syria did not intend to let his people go into hellenic servitude, and knew that 2 forces have been sent from Seleukeia and Babylon and would arrive in Antiocheia soon. He decided to buy them the time they needed, sounded the charge and shouted to the Hellenes: "The way is shut!".

That day, the Satrap and his army went down fighting, but they held the Hellenes back just long enough, so the 2 supportive armies appeared near Antiocheia when the Hellenes layed siege on that city. Before they were ready to attack the city, the Seleukids reached them, and defeated them in a bloody battle. With that, Antiocheia was save. At the borderline to Kilikia, next to the road, the Seleukids raised a marble statue of their heroic Satrap. In its socle they carved those words, that adress every intruder until today: "The way is shut!"

(OOC: Stole the idea from the Leonidas-Saga ^^ Since there was no "Thermopylae" in my campaign, I just had to...)

[^RaGe^]

I think we have a winner already.

[SwissBarbar]

*G* Glad you enjoy it ^^ thank you

[theoldbelgian]

brilliant background story and i would love to have you win for that but the picture itself isn't that what i would say 'wow it doesn't matter what comes now i vote for that '
but brilliant background story simply brilliant

[desert]

It's kind of funny to imagine oneself as a traveler; all of a sudden you see a large statue near the road, which reads "The way is shut." Shrugging, you turn around and go back down the road.

I actually thought it was a LOTR reference, though...

[SwissBarbar]

hehe, it's a sign to remember future intruders what happened once to those intruders, not to frighten them by a simple statue *G*

I don't play LOTR, so its not a reference to that RPG. Its simply my own KH-Campaign that I roleplay.

I'm looking forward to great pictures of yours. Lets post

[desert]

No, I meant LOTR, as in, the books.