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[Sylon]

The state of the Epeirote empire, on the death of the Basileus, Ptolemaios Aiakides. He is succeeded by his son, the talented Pyrrichos, whose brilliant starting traits marked him out for kingship early.

A lot has happened since my last update. Expansion into Asia Minor saw the Seleukids, followed by the Hai and Pontikoi declare war on me (In that order). In Iberia, the destruction of the remaining Carthaginians led to to my gaining several colonies on the Mediterranean coast. After some time, I sent a small expedition force of Iberian troops led by an allied general into the interior. He managed to take the city, but was killed in a revolt immediately after. The town would revolt several times more, killing off a second recruited general and destroying the Type 4 government twice, until it rebelled against me and joined the Lusotannen, putting us at war. We had been entirely peaceful up until then, but upon the declaration of war they proceeded to send several stacks against me and nearly drove it out of the continent. It took several years for reinforcements from Sicily to arrive, by which time they had took one of my settlements and was besieging a second with a fullstack. After my armies arrived, however, their troops quickly melted away thanks to the combination of phalangitai and elephants.

In the east, I sent my faction leader to liberate the two Greek cities on the Crimea. It was around then that Hayasdan made the unwise decision of declaring war on me. I sent my faction leader after them, and with his army he single-handedly defeated around four or five fullstacks of Hai troops. Of course, most of them were levies, and I had the advantage of Scythian archers and a fortified position on a mountain.

In Asia minor, my troops quickly pushed the Seleukids out, after which I signed a brief peace treaty with them. The Ptolemaioi declared war at this point, invading through Africa, so I snapped up their city in Anatolia. Pontus declared war soon after, and after fighting off some of their sieges, I returned the favour. The climax of the war was the siege of Amaseia, which saw my levies grind down and destroy their Chalkaspides and Thorakitai after a long time and many losses. After the slow slaughter in the streets, I moved my troops into position and assaulted the town square and their few remaining troops, including their faction leader... And the battle timer ran out. Bam, I get ejected from the city without healing any losses, while they recovered half of theirs, including a 4 chevron Chalkaspide unit. I eventually sacked the town, however.

After that, the Seleukids declared war again, and proceeded to spam me with endless stacks of troops. I foolishly pushed on the Antiocheia, thinking it would cut off their recruitment options... But that simply opened a second front from which the Ptolemaioi invaded me. It is probably worth mentioning at this point that neither of them are at war with each other.

The game then descended into fullstack vs fullstack spam, as I ground more than ten fullstacks in Anatolia, on the walls of Antiocheia, and in the desert around Kyrene. I will not bother to describe them, since it would be exceedingly dull.

On the western front, I declared war on Arverni some time after all of Iberia had become nice and subdued, as they had been openly violating my territory by walking all around my land without military access. Furthermore, they had sent spies in order to incite my Iberian cities. This was interpreted as a sufficient justification for war.

And finally, at some point between these events, I invaded and destroyed the Getai, who had managed to conquer all the way up to Tanais. They actually managed to beat two of my fullstacks, destroying them. The only consolation was that both of them were auxillary armies, made up of native troops and mercenaries. When a proper Hellenic stack attacked them, they were annihilated, as non-phalanx infantry are wont to do when they rush to impale themselves on a row of pikes.



Interestingly enough, I managed to get the trait 'Excelled in Spartan Agoge' for one of my family members this game. It was the first time I saw it, so I was pleasantly surprised.

Also, three more provinces and the Mediterranean is mine and mine only.