Down From Africa (An AAR Sidestory)

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Very well written, and very much suspense this time I might add. Great!

[Reverend Joe]

Man it's weird to watch the Seleucid empire degenerate over the course of the AAR into a tiny sliver on the coast of Persia.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I like how you are using simple assassination attempt to write your story, very original. Keep up the good work MAA

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Very well written, and very much suspense this time I might add. Great!

I just signed up to congratulate you! IN-CRE-DI-BLE!

I have been following this since the "Antigonid Dynasty" and although I must say i liked your old style just a bit better, your AAR('s) are the most interesting and epic I've ever read. It's an alternative history done right.

Just wanted to say that, and I think I'm speeking for all who are lurking so now and then, so keep up the amazing!

Thank you all. And welcome to the Org, Horatius Flaccus. It's always nice to hear from some lurkers.

Almost every AI turn, Persian assassins do their attack animation. I've been roleplaying and making up stories about all those failed attempts. For a while there, the Persian assassins disappeared and I was afraid that my story about a bodyguard was ruined, but once I took Persepolis they reappeared.

how can you start a civil war and split factions?

I did not actually split a single faction. I just used the Baktria faction as the second half of the civil war. Baktria shares the same factional MICs as Makedonia and it was quite easy to get them to behave like Makedonia. You just have to rename and recolor the faction. There are many threads around talking about doing such. (I editted my minimaps that I posted in this thread so that it looked like the Baktria province was still a separate faction. It was really just part of the same faction that played the other side of the civil war.)

Man it's weird to watch the Seleucid empire degenerate over the course of the AAR into a tiny sliver on the coast of Persia.

I had thought they would hold out against Pahlava a little better, but once Pahlava got on a roll they nearly pushed them into the sea in less than a decade. Then the Indo-Hellenic Kingdom (Baktria) betrayed them. The Indo-Greeks had almost taken that last town when the Persian Empire (Pahlava & Hayasdan) went to war with the Indo-Hellenic Kingdom (Baktria) and both forgot about the Seleukids entirely.

[lenin96]

After seeing this AAR I decided to read the "Antigonids: A Makedonian AAR" and then "The Pyrrhic Dynasty" and now aI'm up to this, it's brilliant! Maybe you should explain why the western Persians have Armenian names by saying that the western part was ruled by Armenians and Armenians made up a lot of the aristocracy in the western half or something similar?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

After seeing this AAR I decided to read the "Antigonids: A Makedonian AAR" and then "The Pyrrhic Dynasty" and now aI'm up to this, it's brilliant! Maybe you should explain why the western Persians have Armenian names by saying that the western part was ruled by Armenians and Armenians made up a lot of the aristocracy in the western half or something similar?

That's a lot to read up on. Thanks for reading.
I'm kind of roleplaying that. The western Persian nobles are Median, and the royal family of Media is a merging between the dethroned Hayasdan king and Median nobles. When playing, I kind of just ignore the names if they don't seem right.

[Maion Maroneios]

Been catching up a few chapters, MAA, and I can say this really keeps surprising me after all those updates. I never get bored reading this AAR!

Maion