Baktria - Basileion Hellenon Asias

[Vasiliyi]

Good update. Keep this going. Ive never seen a Baktrian aar last very long so this should be good.

[miotas]

Good update. Keep this going. Ive never seen a Baktrian aar last very long so this should be good.

I'm finding it very fun so it will keep going for a while yet, I've got a more chapters under my belt but I'm waiting a bit to post them as whats happening now might change things a bit.

possible spoiler if you're following the story

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Possible reforms, as capua has 25000 pop. but is still a large city. fingers crossed

I just done a search and the last Baktrian AAR was over a year ago and lasted 2 posts! These are rare indeed.

[V.T. Marvin]

Very good story, keep it up!

I just done a search and the last Baktrian AAR was over a year ago and lasted 2 posts! These are rare indeed.

You have not searched too well - my Baktrian AAR lasted longer than that and is dead only for a month (and still on the first page - at the very bottom, though)

I wish you more endurance and less real-life time constraints than I have had...

[miotas]

Very good story, keep it up!


You have not searched too well - my Baktrian AAR lasted longer than that and is dead only for a month (and still on the first page - at the very bottom, though)

I wish you more endurance and less real-life time constraints than I have had...

Eeep, I did a search for titles with "Baktria", apparently this didn't include titles with "Baktrian"

And it's now a second page story I'm sorry to say, mine must have pushed it down

Nice AAR btw, too bad it died.

[miotas]

Chapter 4

The battle started with the archers atop the walls killing as many of the enemy as possible before the
Somatophylakes Strategou prepare to engage the enemy.





After many hours the rest of the nobles and I formed up our Somatophylakes Strategou and readied
for the charge.



Basileus, seeing I was eager to prove myself, gave the order for me to charge down some of the
Pahlavan forces best riders.



I took down many enemy horsemen, but being so numerous, we had no chance of winning,



I was about to order a retreat when the Basileus himself rode to my aid.



The Basileus and myself, fighting side-by-side to save the kingdom from these foul nomads, this was
the proudest moment of my life.



Diodotos then rode off to do battle with the enemy general,



The death of their general was enough to break the spirit of the enemy. The rest of the battle was
simply a matter of killing as many enemy as possible before they fled into the bush.



My sword arm will ache in the morning.

[miotas]

Taking good screenshots can be tricky stuff, in this battle I was busy taking lots of good screenshots and didn't even realise my main character had lost over half his men

So lots of screenshots to come will now be missing chunks of the sky because I've now taken to pausing

[miotas]

Hadou Hippeis - Horsemen of Hades


Chapter 5

My second battle in as many years. This time against the Hadou Hippeis, Saka nomads.

The battle started with the archers firing from the walls, they seemed to have a personal grudge
against these foes and took no shame in showing it.



This battle would be quite different to the last however, as the these horsemen had fine armour and
our arrows dealt little damage, this battle would ride solely upon the back of our fine Baktrian steeds.



Basileus gave the order for my brother to charge a group of Saka nobles who ventured too far from
the main army.



The noise of the two lines of heavily armoured horsemen clashing deafened all those nearby. The
small enemy group was soon overwhelmed and turned tail.



I was then ordered to charge some light horsemen on the flanks, the blood surged in my veins as I
charged into the enemy lines.





They did not stand long in the face of such well armoured foes and I started to give chase before
remembering the rest of battle. I reordered my men and prepared to charge the rear of the last
standing Saka nobles.



However they fled at the sight of us and the day was ours.



The battle may have been short, lasting little more than an hour, but the fighting was fierce and
many fine sons of Baktria had taken their last breaths that day.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Taking good screenshots can be tricky stuff, in this battle I was busy taking lots of good screenshots and didn't even realise my main character had lost over half his men

I hate it when that happens. I've had many times when I've had to stop taking pictures in a difficult battle just so I don't loose something.