Menelaus' rampage across the Aegean stalled beneath the walls of Aptera in central Crete. The curs who occupied the western half of the island (their name shall be abolished from history... because I forgot to write it down...) had put up no resistance, but their walled capital still almost proved too much for the mad King of Sparta to handle.
An initial assault on the walls was catastrophic, but due to the mystical powers of 'save-scumming', Menelaus managed to starve the defenders enough to make a second assault a success. This formed the climax of my brief stint with A Total War Saga: Troy's full campaign game.
Besieging walled cities is no joke and it was perhaps a taste of what horrors would have awaited me had I actually made it to Troy itself. That would have been a long ways down the road, though. One of the many misconceptions surrounding the Trojan War that CA Sofia is having to battle is that this saga is not a quick one - it spans literal decades. The siege itself took ten years, and I suspect my Menelaus would have needed to spend at least that long preparing his forces and gathering allies to sail across the sea. Crete was only beginning, but I will have to wait until the game's release on August 13th, 2020 to see the end.
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