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    Thanks, but I doubt it would make a good book. Not only is it picture driven but it lacks a main character, antagonist, challenge, climax, or end. If it were just written down it would sound more like a history book of an alternate dimension. I enjoy writting, although with most of my actual stories I've tried to write I just end up getting lost on how to end it after the story's peak point.

    No elves, but along the lines of an alternate reality, I got bored the other day and made this picture of what BI would look like in this alternate dimension, if I were to quit the game right now and start up again in about AD200:

    The Arche Makedonia tries to recover after loosing territory to both the Keltic nation and to the Neo-Persians, meanwhile the age of migration is about to begin in Germany, as well as dealing with a rebelling Italian client-state. Hun-like nation emmerging.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus View Post
    Thanks, but I doubt it would make a good book. Not only is it picture driven but it lacks a main character, antagonist, challenge, climax, or end. If it were just written down it would sound more like a history book of an alternate dimension. I enjoy writting, although with most of my actual stories I've tried to write I just end up getting lost on how to end it after the story's peak point.

    No elves, but along the lines of an alternate reality, I got bored the other day and made this picture of what BI would look like in this alternate dimension, if I were to quit the game right now and start up again in about AD200:

    The Arche Makedonia tries to recover after loosing territory to both the Keltic nation and to the Neo-Persians, meanwhile the age of migration is about to begin in Germany, as well as dealing with a rebelling Italian client-state. Hun-like nation emmerging.
    That's flipping cool. I would like to play that sort of game.

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    Holy meatballs! Seeing a alternate dimension for this AAR Would be mind-blowing!
    It would be interesting to see the fall of the Macedonian empire (but quite sad at the same time)

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    I was thinking if I ever ended this, I'd make the last chapter a story of what happens to the Arche Makedonia and the world over the next few centuries.

    Next chapter \/


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    Chapter 77 : Eastern Affairs

    During the seventh year of Philippos' reign, he had retaken the city of Alexandreia and the Neilos delta. With the great port taken, the Romaioi legion moves down from Ioudaia and make their way into Aigyptos, to finally make there way home. In the sea, however, the navies of Makedonia and Aigyptos engage eachother just off the delta. The superior Makedonike ships win the day:


    With both land and sea secure, Philippos goes about rebuilding Alexandreia while his men prepare to sail up the Neilos. One of the first acts of restoration is the restoration of the tomb of Megas Alexandros and the replacing of his body to its rightful place:


    When Philippos first took the town, since the tomb was damaged, it was momentarily discussed whether the body should be moved elsewhere (Makedonia or even Amonnion), but the subject was quickly dismissed.

    After several seasons, Philippos and his son, Alypios, gather the army and march south to the ancient city of Memphis, capital of the rebel Aigyptos. In Alexandreia, Philippos leaves the family Grenideus, who are relatives to the great general Antisthenes Gortynois, in Alexandreia and give them charge:


    In Arabia, the Kingdom of Sab'yn had profitted much from the Makedonike Civil War, gaining territories along the northern part of boths sides of the desert, though suffering losses to the Medians in the east. With plans for the future, the Kingdom of Sab'yn make peace with Aigyptos and an alliance with the Arche Seleukeia, both are enemies of the Arche Makedonia:


    As for the Arche Seleukeia, she had suffered a terrible change of fate. Over the years that the Arche Makedonia had fought a civil war, the Arche Seleukeia had charged northwards into the plains and wastelands. After years of warfare, the armies of the Seleukids had been streched quite thin. Other than that, being isolated from large populations of Makedones and Hellenes, the quality of soldiers capible of being raised had also been quite low lately. When the Median Empire declared war and openly encouraged rebellion amongst the conquered peoples of the Arche Seleukeia, everything fell apart in the east.

    When the Seleukid armies march south, the northern steppe regions of the Arche Seleukeia seize apon their oppertunity, declare themselves independant, and immediately raise armies. Marching southward, these armies manage to gain vast territories both peacefully and by force. After several years, the armies of the steppe peoples finally meet true resistance and begin to fight the armies of the Arche Seleukeia openly:


    Meanwhile, the Medians move their forces eastward into Seleukid territory, planning on expanding into Persis:


    It is around this same time, that the governor of the semi-autonomous satrapy of Baktria finally openly declares itself independant from the Arche Seleukeia, who is obligated to declare war. Having marched his armies into the Indus valley and conquered the Gandharans, the Basileus of Baktria is, in himself, a more than formitable apponent for the Arche Seleukeia.

    Back in the Arche Makedonia, Philippos has problems of his own from across a wasteland. While still on their way to Alexandreia, the Romaioi are suddenly attacked by an army from the deserts. Since there is peace between the Arche Makedonia and the Kingdom of Sab'yn and no other people could raise an army of such size, the event surprises the Romaioi, who thought they were in safe territory:


    The battle begins with the Romaioi with the lower ground and the army of Saba coming down off a hill toward them:


    The Romaioi march forward to get up the hill and meet the Sabaeans on semi-level ground. In order to ensure they meet the Romaioi on a slope, the Sabaeans rush down as quickly as they can:


    The mass of enemy soldiers is too much for the first line of infantry and Consul Tiberius Aurelius Cotta is forced to send his second line in early:


    While the infantry do their best to hold the line...


    ...the Romaioi cavalry clash with the enemy cavalry:


    After a short battle, the Sabaean cavalry break and flee. The Romaioi cavalry move to get behind the enemy line, but the Sabaeans panic when they realize they are without cavalry support and begin to flee:


    Cotta once again learns a lesson of warfare, even at his advanced age:


    Rather than continue forward to Alexandreia, Consul Tiberius Aurelius Cotta gives chase to the fleeing enemy. Pursuing them across the desert, the Romaioi finally corner the enemy army within the walled city of Petra, a city which was once a city of the Arche Makedonia.

    With war once again threatening Syria and armies of Arabia marching northward, Philippos decides to take the offensive. Sending orders to his brother in Demetreia, Philippos orders the city of Bostra retaken and the klerouchoi settlers of the region liberated. From Demetreia, Sotades sends word to Herodes of Bosphoria to march his men south and accomplish the task:


    After only a few months, an army that was just to the south of Bostra arrives and attack Herodes and his army, in the heat of the summer. Unlike the army that fought against the Romaioi, this army approaches the Makedones slowly and orderly:


    With the home of a local Makedonike klerouchoi soldier right in front of them, serving a symbol of their fight, the line of Makedones absorb the intial charge:


    Separating into two separate groups and attacking on either side of the villa, the Sabaeans throw their whole army at the line:


    While the bulk of the battle occurs in the center, at the left flank, a group of Thorakitai fight a small enemy group, but the enemy quickly breaks. The Thorakitai pursue their enemy but fall into a trap when they are surrounded by a hidden enemy force:


    In order to save the Thorakitai, Herodes personally leads his Galatian cavalry forward:


    The Galatian cavarly has great success and breaks the entire ambushing party. Seeing their flank exposed, the rest of the Sabaean army breaks soon after. Although the first army is broken, scouts report the garrison of the city approaching. Herodes orders his battle line to reform an his cavalry to chase down and kill or capture as many enemies as possible.

    As the infantry reform, a strong wind begins to blow and picks up the dust from the parched grounds:


    Taking advantage of the poor visibilty, Herodes' steppe cavalry rush forward and take out isoloted enemy units:


    The cavalry attack a group, fights them until reinforcements approach, then retreat. After doing this several times, a good deal of the reserve forces of the Sabaean army are wiped out. Meanwhile, the phalangitai infantry continue to move forward. Suddenly, the wind stops all together and the dust clears. The Sabaeans hardly have time to notice the vast infanty force just ahead of them, before Herodes orders the charge:


    Confused by the dust storm and the sudden attack, the Sabaeans panic and break. Although some manage to make it back to the city of Bostra, all give up their arms and disband:


    With this great victory, the regions east of the Jordan are restored to the Arche Makedonia and Syria gains a larger buffer area against attack:


    With the city taken, Herodes prepares to finally return home to Bosphoria, but in Damaskos is a man ready to take his place and continue the war against the Kingdom of Sab'yn. Chrysoloras Delphikos had been raised in Bostra and had fought against Arabian invaders from the south his whole life along side his father. The civil war had given his family a break against this task, but once again Chrysoloras Delphikos takes up the mission of fighting the Kingdom of Sab'yn, however this time he will not simply sit behind the walls of Bostra and wait for the enemy to come to him.

    The known world in156BC, four years after the fall of the Demetrids:

    Next: Chapter 78 : A Journey Up the Neilos
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    plz take gaul. plz, plz take gaul so you've trumped the Romans.

    oh, and my modding forced me to reinstall EB, but my saves are all intact, and so I was able to update my AAR today.

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    I see much grievances on the road ahead for the Sab´yn. But first of course, the remained of Aigyptos must be secured.
    Have you noticed that you hold all but 2 ports in the Med? That´s right, those damns Numidians are denying you those ports. Take ´em!
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