Hello everyone.
It has been a while since we played the Hellas campaign in the Age of Alexander.
I am not going to lie to you - I wanted to take a break and rest during Christmas and then we got pretty busy with the announcement of the new DLC Imperiums: Rome vs Carthage.
That being said, I want to continue the campaign and hope you are ready to support me 🙂
In the last stream, we made quite good progress in stabilizing our federation but foremost we were able to create a bridgehead on Persian ground.
But let's take it from the beginning.
After expelling the Spartans and taking over the whole Peloponnese, Persian troops tried to disembark on the peninsula several times and create a base for their future advance. We were able to repel them even though our armies were not fully restored after the battle with Spartans.
We founded two new cities in the north of Macedon. Now, that there is peace between us and the Thrakians, these should be quite safe. Macedon is a member of our federation, but their loyalty to us is questionable (low loyalty and morale in some of their cities). That's why we strengthen our position by building city improvements there.
We also improved our overall economic production by moving an existing blacksmith to a better location, building new ones and enhancing them with the "thrifty" improvement. Our position in Italy was strengthened by building a regional capital in Sipontum - former capital of Samnites, which should lower corruption in the area.
Last but certainly not least - we decided that it is time to let our people speak and we transformed our government to a Republic!
Sparta eventually decided that despite their hatred of us, there is little to no chance that they will get their holdings on the Peloponnese back and sued for peace using Scythia as a mediator. They are still in possession of a number of islands and the whole
of Crete so their presence in the region should not be underestimated.
As expected, the biggest problems are with Persians. After several attempts to disembark on our coast and a few skirmishes on land, we counterattacked. We took over some islands in the Aegean Sea but it was quite a struggle. We already made several attempts on Mytilene but the island is still not ours and many of our soldiers died on the beaches.
Persia however is going through internal struggles of its own. Not only it is facing a sort of civil war near Sinam where a new faction called Edom have risen against them, but through an uprising in Bithynion in Asia Minor we have been handed control of one of their cities. It was a very dangerous move but we took our chances and supported the rebels. It used to be a Greek sphere of influence after all. A couple more cities around eventually decided to join our side and that further expanded the territory under our control on the Persian doorstep. We started transporting our armies over the channel to Asia Minor to be ready for any counter action from the Persians. Our spies reported that Persia has an unbelievable 48 military units! Our future in Asia Minor doesn't look very optimistic. We have just a few hoplite units over there. Nevertheless, this could further weaken Persian influence in the region and show them that we are no longer just a small faction but a rising power. We could even finally control the Aegean sea.
One unfortunate event happened in Carthago at the end of the last episode. We ordered our emissary Polyperchon who was stationed in Carthago to return, but he refused and left our services for good and decided to stay in Carthago. We will need to send a new emissary there.
In the next episode, we will try to secure our positions in Bithynia and finally take control over the Aegean Sea. Join us for this glorious moment in Hellas history!
As always, Pavel will be happy to answer your questions during the stream so please join in Tuesday 1st our Twitch channel.
See you there!
Yours,
Kube Games team.
P.S. Here is the last episode in case you missed it.