my best battle was in egypt as the greeks. i had long ago set a force under antiochus the great to get a toe hold in the heart of egypt, after a great battle thebes (the only province i had in egypt) was dangerously undergarrisoned. from sparta i sent out a relife force, after two naval defeats the battered navy force now down to one ship landed in lybia. it consisted of 3 armored hoplites, 2 hoplites, 2 cavalry ,1 general, 1 greek pelasts and 2 mercinary pelasts. after defeating a force of numidians the army made camp just east of the pyramids. the egyptians fearing for the city memphis sent out a full stack to destroy my force. 2 generals, 3 cavalry, 5 axemen, 3 archers, 4 nile pikemen, 3 peasants. all in all i was screwed.

they were quick to attack but Ares sent his blessing in the form of a huge rock face. seeing my chance i formed my hoplites in a half ring around the rocks ,3 armored and 1 normal, all in phalanx 1 hoplite with swords inside to fight any who made a gap. behind the hoplites i put all my pelasts. i put all my cavalry very far to the left so they could charge in when needed but would not be attacked. when the battle began the egyptians had to run almost the entire lengh of the feild to get to my men so they were tire when they got there.

2 of there cavalry was the first there, there courage was there undoing as they gored themselves onto the pikes. pike men came next, phalanx style, they were shredded by my armored hoplites. wave after wave of soldiers pored at my warriors, i quickly had to send my cavalry to chase away archers, as my cavalry cut down 2 units of archers there remaining cavalry killed mine. by now my forces were tired and i had suffered many loses but the pike wall held strong. the skirmishers position allowed them to hurl spears over the hoplites heads with no freindly fire but after 10 minutes of suicidal attacks the egyptians had suffered more losses than i had. i one desperate charge the cavalry of egypt with there chariots struck a tiny gap between two phalanxes, there pharoh was killed instantly but the cavalry forced there way through. they were bruttaly cut down as they engaged my hoplites and skirmishers. but still 2 units of axmen rushed in, i commanded my men to drop phalanx and fight with xyphos and kopis. the axe men are routed. i send my hoplites to cut down the routed soldiers.

now the egyptian forces had only 1 full unit of archers, 2 battered units of axemen i near routed general and assorted broken units. i possesed only generals cavalry, 3 battered units of hoplites armored and not, and thats it. several small battles later i was confident in my victory. i haD ONLY 2 FRACTURED UNITS OF ARMORED HOPLITES AND THEY only had 1 archer. for the next 10 minutes my hoplites chased those archers into exhastion. the archers, unarmored and quick, every little while had time to halt and shoot arrows at me. as there arrows dwindled they bagan using flamming arrows and one units of my hoplites was routed. upon seeing this i was startled so i attempted to finish it quick with another charge of hoplites. the flamming arrows rained down like the unbridled wrath of the gods, my last unit routed in a pour of fire. and like that, i lost...i had lost the best battle i ever played.

well anyway in a reckless bought of vengence i brought the whole of greece down upon egypts heads. they were completely sdestroyed within the next ten years.

srry if the story is a little fractured, it was a long time ago.