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CHAPTER I:
The Six Corps(plural)

Operation: Run Home(192-Winter 191)

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192-Spring 191

"With Lusotanna continuing to be pushed back I am afraid it is only a matter of time before our enemies can force a peace treaty or worse yet Protectorate status on these free people..." so began the speech that would spur the Koinon on to sponsor a 2 part plan to keep biQarthadist in a 2 front war. After the vote was taken it was set that the Koinon would begin funding the Lusotannians in their war against biQarth aggression and that a water-bourne assault would begin on the evil empires soft underbelly. Beginning with southern italy, then to sicily, and finally making a landing on the very coasts of Afrika. Two men would lead the army, Podalinos Kresios and Euaimon Halieus.
The force left Sparta in the fall of 192 as time could not be wasted waiting for spring. Unfortunately this hurry caused one of the generals, Euaimon, to become deathly ill; and the ships were forced to sit at sea for 2 extra season as the EB engine makes navies go at the same rate as Generals in them. So after terrible delays, within sight of the italian coast, the force finally landed in the summer of 191. It quickly overcame the garrison in Rhegium and was able to recoup supplies and allow the army some much needed rest .


Also in the summer of 191 the Seleukid's laid siege to Tarsus...again... This time with a full stack army so Xenon was forced to leave a garrison at Antioch and move by ship to Tarsos to beat back the evil AS horde. Xenon's Army is full of veterans, with the most experienced combat unit being Xenon himself with 2 gold chevrons(those mean he kills...everything he sees)
The battle was rather uneventful with a larger number of green phalangites and cavalry support going against the hardened soldiers of Xenon's II Corps.

FORGOT TO PUT THIS EARLIER: i will be breaking my armies down into Corps; I Corps is stationed in Dacia, II Corps is stationed in Tarsos, III Corps is stationed in Mazaka, IV Corps stationed in Chersonesos, V Corps stationed in Alexandreia, and the VI Corps stationed in Sparta but currently on operation in Rhegium

The battle was quickly over and Xenon settled in for a summer in Tarsos.

Recon Report Summer191 :
The biQarthadist army was seen moving out of the city of Sarmis.
Iberia still looks like it has for a while; looks like maybe the Lusotanna's are beginning to hold them back.

Fall 191 sees the Ptol's finding just enough funds to bring a small army to besiege the now lightly garrisoned Antiocheia
Not able to hold himself back, being a warmonger and all, Xenon loads back up on the ships(but not before having to ship out his heavy cavalry to be rearmed as they are both down to <20 men) and lands at Antioch, to relieve his warmongering needs, only to see the cowards run away from the battle and then to be left with not enough movement to catch them. The Ptol also bring an army to Alexandria only to be beaten by the auto pilot
In Rhegium the army still needs rest as even after taking the city it is low on supplies, this expedition cannot afford to dilly dally for too long or the cursed biQarthadist's may figure out what is going on.
The Epirotes have been dragging Hero back and forth around the peninsula and even on boat towards the western coast of the sea. So in the summer of 191 the Koinon Council receives a messenger from Hero requesting permission to secure the peninsula that Chersonesos lays on from further Epirote annoyance. After successfully defending Chersonesos from an Epirote attack ,in fall of 191, Hero receives orders from the Koinon to go ahead with his plan to liberate Pantikapaion, as it is the last Epirote stronghold on the peninsula, and () and offer them a place in the Koinon Hellenon.
There is a motion going through the council asking for another Corps to be paid for and commissioned by the KH for the defense of Epidamnos from Epirote/biQarthadist forces. This city has been under almost constant siege since it was taken and it will no longer be possible for the I Corps to move all the way down to the coast as the biQarthadist army in the north is growing ever stronger. biQarthadist is also beginning to flex some naval muscle as she has snuck ships into the black sea and is currently blockading 5 KH ports. In the council politicing begins, looking to see who will vote for a 3rd navy to be added to the Koinon Naval ranks to first clear the black sea and second blockade the entrance to the Black Sea prohibiting the entrance of any ships deemed suspicious by the Admiral.

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