Quote Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou
One drawback of starting the game in 514: you can't have the canal cut on the Athos peninsula. There's one at Potideia too, that's ancient. But I guess they weren't there in 514. (the Potideia one is classical I think)
Actually, the Persians "cut the canal" as you say, at Athos during their 2nd invasion of Greece to protect their fleet...

about Potidaea, I can't remember...