The simple fact about relations between Greeks and Macedonians is this:

The Greeks thought of the Macedonians as barbarians, even though they were as advanced as the Greeks; the reason may be that the Macedonians had kings but this is debated. The Macedonians were, in truth, simply Greeks that stayed in the north when the original Greeks moved south into Greece.

On another note, the reason the Greeks never conquered anything is because they were hopelessly disunited. Each little city-state fought each other little city-state and nothing that even resembled a unified effort of any kind was ever achieved. Sometimes, an especially powerful city-state (e.g Thebes, Sparta, Athens) would subjugate neighbouring cities and create a league; this happened more and more as time went on. At the time of the game, the largest and most powerful league in Greece was the Achaean League, which was centered on the north Peloponnese and lasted from around 280 BC to 146 BC, upon which it was conquered by the Romans in the Achaean War. In my opinion, the "Greek Cities" *shudders* should be renamed to the Achaean League.

- Panda