RTW/EB-United People(Greek)

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YEAR 177 BC
the known world



Years have passed since my United Greeks have battled the selucids, we have conquered enough territory to link our homeland with the amazing city of Antioch. The Egyptians are to this day fighting them in the far east and southeast of Antioch. We decided there was no need for more bloodshed.

However, the Macedonians are a different story. Recently they have been spotted gathering a large army in a fort maybe a few days march from our city of Epidamons. My spies tell me that is the last of their military in that fort commanded by one of their best generals since Alexander, they left their capital almost unprotected. After a meeting with my generals, we decided to Attack that fort and shortly after take their capital!



Because of their well known and strategically educated general, we didn't assemble just a regular army. These were highly trained Spartans and Noble Greek Cavalry. They were born for this day, the day to wipe out the Macedonians! Their forts walls crumbled, and eventually they just could not defend against the enormously powerful combination of Spartan warriors and Noble Cavalry.



The Macedonian capital fell days after that battle...

With our rivals now Homeless, our empire decided to settle down and focus on the arts, engineering, studying the world, and other things besides conquest and war and bloodshed. We had our peace..

With the savage Dacians just north of us, we did not trust them. My guards caught four of their spies in my cities. We were very aware of them. Shortly after slaughtering their last spy, they attacked a small Greek army and wiped them out. This is war once again.

The Dacians and barbaric people, they have no mercy. They attacked a small town on the northern Greek borders. As soon as I sent an army to help, they gathered huge amounts of savage warriors, some fighting even naked! We met in the northern hills...



We knew nothing of how these people battled. My general couldn't plan well ahead of the battle. The men were in solid formation with the cavalry to the right and to the left of the center. Echoes of animal like screams, and bizarre noises came to our ears. Moments after we see their men marching towards us....



As they came forth my general shouted "There's too many of them to fight at once...we have to somehow separate them" And so he send half of the cavalry to march to the far west and the other half to the far east and get the Dacians attention. The bloodthirsty barbarians just wanted to see blood so a large sum of them started charging towards my horses on the west...and soon after another part of their army separates and chargers towards my horsemen on the other side of the battlefield.

As soon as they started chasing my horses...about 2/3 of my infantry charged forward and smashed into the Dacians, the other third of my infantry split in half and ran to the flanks of the enemies army. My cavalry had been chased far enough from the main force that the stubborn dacians couldn't even see their main force fighting my infantry. The horses went around and charged into the rear of the Dacian main force while they were fighting my brave Greeks on the frontlines. We surrounded them and slaughtered them. After that the divided enemy force quickly routed back to their home in the woods.



We do not know what more to expect from these new enemies, but we do know that we are at war. This is nothing new to us, we have greatly improved our economy and have enough resources to form another conquest...now to the cold north...