My slovenly spies show that the Romans have taken Mediolanum. All the Gauls have left are Patavium and Segestica.
In the east, an Amazonian army has laid siege to Myrina.
First Equal Klito the Conqueror comes down to with her army to deal with them.
There sure are a lot of them, and all of my cavalry is in the city. Since the Peasants are in the UI before the cavalry, none of my horsewomen will enter the battle as reinforcements.
So it will be the infantry who win the fight today. I send them forward into the Amazonians to come to grips with them.
Grip them I did.
They cannot stand up to Valkyrja women.
The entire center dissolved.
Victory. Many escaped due to my lack of cavalry to run them down.
In the west, the War of Vengeance has begun. For over a millenia the Greeks have been our enemies. A thousand years ago they destroyed the Libyan Amazons, sacking their capital of Triton in an orgy of blood. Five hundred years ago at Heraclea they inflicted a humiliating defeat upon Amazonia that left thousand of Amazons as captives. Yet these Women would escape and make their way north across the sea to become the Valkyrja. Now we have come full circle, to take our revenge for over a thousand years of blood. The world of men shall fall...
The Greeks start on the low ground, I intend to keep them there.
I start with their General, sending out a unit of Drakones to assist Molpadia in running him to ground.
He is cut down.
In the meantime the rest of my army was forming a line across the hill in front of the Greek army.
Then my cavalry swept around behind them.
Trapped, they were annihilated by my Agema Archers.
No survivors.
Here is a pic with the Fog of War turned off. The Britons and Iberians are slugging it out over what was once Gaul, and the Romans are finally moving against what is left of the Gauls in northern Italy. The Gorgons still dominate North Africa, but a full stack of Carthaginians has landed near Carthage to take it back.
That damnable Rebel fleet has made its way into the Black Sea, and continues to haunt my navy.
I have had over a dozen battles with them. Every one ends like this. At least I am slowly whittling them down.
Hmm, it looks like the Egyptians are going to attack me.
In the east, The Army of Armenia has built a fort in the pass north of Kotais while they wait for their newly raised infantry to come up to join them. The Amazonians came north to attack them, and Marpesia sallied against them.
She starts with their cavalry.
Then surrounds them.
The Amazonians are crushed.
Finally, in the west Molpadia turned and advanced upon Athens, the most hated city of the foul Greeks. She found three Greek armies waiting there. The smart thing to do would have been to attack at night and only face one army at a time. But there is something very satisfying about taking on three enemy armies at once. Besides, what is a War of Vengeance without at least one massive effusion of blood? Molpadia attacks them all.
Here comes the first Greek army. You can see their capital in the distance behind them.
I send my cavalry out ahead to shoot up the approaching Greeks. Molpadia found some Rhodian Slingers on their left and charge in after them. This brought her dangerously near to the second Greek army that was quickly coming onto the field.
Molpadia ran down the Rhodians and continued on to smash the Cretans and Rhodians in the second Greek army.
Oh oh, a unit of Greek Heavy Cavalry is closing in.
A fearsome battle ensues with them.
The Greeks do not break, and now the rest of their army is closing in from both sides.
Molpadia routs! The shame of it! She would fleet directly off the field.
On the other flank, my remaining General Lampedo is running through the Greek Peltasts and Heavy Peltasts there.
By now the infantry were slugging it out head to head.
The Greeks are coming around my flank. But Lampedo is behind them.
She charges them from behind just as they wrap around my left.
There goes the first Greek army.
There were still two Greek armies to go however.
Here they come!
There they go.
My archers are now out of ammunition. From now on it will be the fearful work of swords.
The next two Greek armies hit me at once, especially on my left flank where they are coming in almost behind me.
They have Spartans leading the way there too.
On the far right, Lampedo is rushing from one area to another to prevent the Greeks from turning the flank there.
Back on the left, I throw everything I have against the Spartans, surrounding them.
A unit of Greek Heavy Cavalry charges in at my Drakones there from behind. Thankfully I was able to turn two of them to face them just before they hit.
The Heavy Cavalry is driven off, but the Spartans will not break. They are made of iron.
Finally, with Lampedo herself closing in they give way.
So what do these Greeks think they are going to do, scare us with a ham sandwich?
I have now thrown my entire army (what remains of it), against the Greeks on the left.
There are a lot of scattered infantry battles like this one. Their Rhodians are very tough in melee. Eventually they would be mopped up.
It was time to silence those Onagers.
The Greeks were not finished yet however. They still had one last roll of the dice.
I meet them head on and destroy them.
Heroic Victory, and that one really felt heroic. Over 7,000 dead Greeks and 1,500 dead Amazons.
Nearly 1200 kills for my Horse Archers alone. The Agema Archers averaged about 600 each.
This leaves Attica and the Peloponnese bare of defenders.
