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In the meantime, the Milesians insulted the League for the last time, and Mitrodoros ordered their annexation. The famed young general Lysimachus stormed into Tomis and captured the city.

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After much deliberation and exhaustive diplomacy, relations with Pontus broke down in late 504. The alliance fell apart, and soon after war was declared. The Pontians' navy and army both outnumbered their enemy by a ratio of 3 to 2. Telesphoros Zosimid led 2000 cavalry up the coast to Scythia, in a plan to link up with the Bosporan army and lay siege to Pontic forts in the region. Meanwhile, Lysimachus waited with the remaining 24,000 soldiers in Thracia in anticipation of an invasion across the Propontis.

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36,000 Pontians marched to Bithynia as expected, and 360 triremes secured the Propontis while the League's 260 ships took refuge in the harbor. The Pontians loaded their entire army into the ships.

But then they promptly sailed off for the Aegean and landed the entire army on the shores of Euboea. The League's navy could not defeat the Pontian, and their army was far out of reach. But Pontus was now undefended. Lysimachus seized the opportunity, and with the assistance of the fleet, quickly crossed over into Asia. Bithynia and Euboea quickly fell, and by January of 506, Lysimachus had advanced through Paphlagonia while the Pontic army had captured the mainland from Athens to Sparta.

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After landing the army in Greece, the Pontic navy returned to the Black Sea and prevented the Bosporans from crossing over into Scythia. Fortunately, Scythia was lightly defended and Telesphoros' cavalry dispatched two small forces and laid siege to the area without the Bosporan Greeks. The Bosporans instead marched through the Caucasus and into Iberia, Pontus' small ally. Defeating the Iberian army, they opted to march through the small country instead of capturing it and attacked Pontus from the east, laying siege to Trapezus.

Meanwhile, the Pontians had sent their fleet back to Greece to transport the army back to Pontus and/or invade Thrace. Mitrodoros was desperate. The fleet had to be destroyed, but it outnumbered the League's own forces. And if it could be destroyed, the Pontian army would drown with it.

He ordered Lysimachus to divide his army into two, sending one to Pontus and the other to Amisus under seperate commanders. He then appointed the young military genius Admiral of the fleet.

Lysimachus wasted no time, and engaged the Pontian fleet in the Aegean. It was truly a desperate attack against a stronger foe, but the mind of Lysimachus was on the League's side.

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Accounts vary, but what is known is that Lysimachus threw everything he had at the enemy fleet in a daring nighttime attack. The Pontians were thrown into disarray, and ended up losing more than 260 of their 370 ships, along with 26,000 soldiers. Lysimachus lost not a single ship. The remnants of the enemy fleet fled to Macedonian port and the army's survivors regrouped at Pella.

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Pontus had all but lost the war in one spectacular battle that shocked the regional leaders and radically upset the balance of power in Anatolia. With the Pontian and Iberian militaries all but destroyed, Armenia and Colchis declared war, gobbling up Iberia while Pontus ceded lower Armenia to the Armenians. The war lasted another year while the sieges of Scythia finished and the Pontian remnant's invasion of Thracia was thwarted. Eventually, Pontus ceded Scythia and the former kingdom of Bithynia to the League.

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In the final days of the war, Aleos Proctid was elected Archon...

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...and Egypt invaded and conquered the Aetolian League. For the moment, the Nesiotic League once again found itself in a situation unable to help their brothers in Aetolia.

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In the ensuing chaos of Pontus' defeat, the League and the Bosporans annexed Rhoxolani and Colchis lands, and colonized Tyras, to consolidate and stabilize the northern regions.

The Nesiotic League on July 1, 507
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Wow, the admiral of the Pontian fleet must have been terrible! Great war. The Nesiotic League has established its dominance over both the Aegean and the Black Seas. :cool:
 
No, Lysimachus has 12 martial. I kid you not, you can see it in the screenshot.

:eek: Wow. I didn't notice that before. I've been playing more of my Etrurian game and the highest martial has been 9 for any of my characters. :(
 
12 martial has to be the highest I've ever seen in Rome. Impressive, you could achieve a lot with him as general/admiral. Just mind that his popularity doesn't go too high or he might start a civil war and you're in trouble fighting the most cunning man when it comes to commanding armies or navies.
 
A 12 martial general. What is the highest possible 13 (10 +1 gneral +1 admiral +1 energetic) ?

Now that they have all of central greece in their power, the Ptolemies are looking really strong.

Pray for come sort of civil disporder in the south of Egypt.

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EDIT: holy damn.. he just now asked to become builder, guess what?



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With the League celebrating the victory over Pontus and peace restored at last, Aleos could set his plans in motion for reorganizing the government. The Confederacy as it stood was far too weak to control such a vast overseas empire, and he proclaimed a new Republic! A stronger central government with longer terms could better manage the growing military and bureaucracy.

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But the nation's peace could only last a couple of months. The Egyptian conquest of central Greece threatened the freedom of the League, and was a direct challenge to the Seleucid Empire's supremacy. Furthermore, spies discovered Ptolemy's successor was planning to 'invade Seleucid territory'.

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The Empire, as vast as it was, dared not enter a potentially devastating war against its old rival while the newly-powerful League sat on the sidelines to reap the benefits. And so, in September they agreed to an alliance with the League, and war with Egypt was promptly declared. Aleos cited the invasion of independent Aetolia and the subjugation of Greeks as cause for war, and the Seleucids joined their new ally a month later.

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Once again the League turned to naval superiority to secure victory. The Egyptians had recently returned their army from Greece to Egypt. When war broke out, they loaded 27,000 men onto a fleet and headed for Greece. The famed commander Lysimachus Zoticid intercepted the convoying fleet off the coast of Cyrenaica at the battle of Phycum Promontorium. Repeating his victory in the Aegean barely over a year earlier, three-fourths of the Egyptian fleet and most of the army were utterly destroyed, and the survivors fled back to Alexandria.

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With the loss of their main fleet, and Lysimachus' subsequent blockade of Alexandria, the Egyptians were unable to reinforce Greece. Telesphoros Zosimid led the League's armies into Greece, where jubilant Greeks held parades and feasts in his honor after defeating the tiny Egyptian garrisons.

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In the east, the Seleucids quickly invaded Caria and Lycia, as well as Judea where they defeated the second major Egyptian army. With the second major defeat, they were battered and reeling. This prompted the Nabateans to enter the fray, and they sent a raiding party into the Sinai.

By February, the Egyptians had gathered enough to ships to form a second fleet, which quickly dispatched a small Seleucid force and then engaged Lysimachus off the coast of Rhodes. But for the third time, Lysimachus routed a major fleet without any significant losses.

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By May, the last Egyptian remnants in Greece had been killed.

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But the war was not yet won. The Pharoah refused to cede his claims on Greece, so an invasion of Cyprus was prepared and the island quickly occupied. Even then, driven from Greece, Asia, Cyprus, Judea and the Sinai, and with Nabatean raiders and the Seleucids together besieging Alexandria, the Pharoah refused to accept reasonable peace terms. And so Telesphoros again loaded his army onto Lysimachus' ships, and the invasion of Cyrenaica was begun.

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Barca fell after two and half months and Telesphoros marched towards Cyrene. In the meantime, Alexandria had fallen to the Nabateans. The Egyptians accepted peace with them, ceding the Sinai peninsula and a sum of gold. The Empire had been suffering massive slave revolts and, fearing a civil war, also made peace with Egypt in exchange for a considerable sum of gold.

Thus the full (surviving) weight of Eygpt's forces were directed against the League, and in November of 509, Telesphoros defeated their army as they attacked his camp in Cyrene.

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Marching east, they met again in Marmarica and again Telesphoros drove them from the field.

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Gaining reinforcements, Telesphoros continued his march east and finally reached the walls of Alexandria in September of 510. There he defeated the main Egyptian army a third time.

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Suffering a wound in the battle, he returned to the ships and Lysimachus led the siege for 5 months until the city fell. He then marched on Memphis and quickly took the city.

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With central Egypt occupied by the League, the Pharoah finally admitted defeat. Greece was officially liberated and an indemnity paid to cover the costs of Egypt's occupation.

The Nesiotic League, March 511 AVC
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Comparison of major and regional powers, sorted by research
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Wow. :eek: Those are two incredible generals! With those two at the head of my armies. . . .:D
 
Wow. :eek: Those are two incredible generals! With those two at the head of my armies. . . .:D

Indeed, Lysimachus' insane 12 martial can rout most any army no matter the situation, but he is starting to gain a few too many loyal units. Telesphoros has 9 martial, still great but not a 12, but the real awesome thing about him is his Charisma is 0 so he can lead a huge army and I don't have to worry about loyalties.

I say remove a few Greek states.

Yes, I think Macedonia has lasted long enough, and Olbia is quickly running into debt. As soon as it quits paying tribute it will join the League.

Great war with the Ptolemies, it proved very rewarding. They are far from down and out though. Look at their manpower and income. They will rebuild their fleet without a problem.

Perhaps the Bosporan Kingdom would make a good target.

The Ptolemies are most definitely far from out. They are still 2nd most powerful after the Empire in my opinion. Also with your mod the Seleucids have the Imperium government, which I believe accounts for their lack of civil wars (only 1 very short one so far), so they have been consolidating their power as well (especially as you will see in the next update). Between the two of them, I still have alot to worry about and can still lose a lot of land if I'm not careful.

As for the Bosporans they are a good tributary and ally for the moment. They have decent manpower and an army to bring against Pontus' or the Seleucids' eastern front if need be. First priorities are Macedonia, Olbia, Pontus and forcing Dardania to pay tribute. Assuming I have the means, next on the list are Egypt's Asian provinces, Cyprus, and Cyrenaica, or Seleucid Anatolia.
 
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The alliance with the Seleucids did not last long after that. They invaded Armenia, and Aleos and the Senate were not at all in favor of another war so soon. Aleos himself did not last long after that, either. He died peacefully in his sleep.

Kleandros Zosimid was elected to his second term.

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2 years into his administration, the Seleucid Empire had conquered half of Armenia and forced the kingdom and its ally, Atropatene, to pay tribute. Egypt was also rebuilding its forces and the Senate and people of Greece were wary of possible aggression by the autocratic empires. The League needed to increase its own power once again. The Macedonian king was delivered an ultimatum to pay tribute to the Senate, and he refused. War followed soon after.

But Macedonia had an ally. Pontus declared war on the League, and the Bosporans declared war on Pontus and Macedonia in turn. Kleandros decided to a policy of "Macedonia first" and drew up plans to invade on two fronts and defeat the kingdom quickly. They looked like this:

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The Macedonians were sandwiched and gave up easily. The last defenders fell only 2 months after war was declared, and a peace treaty was hastily signed bringing the lands into the League. In order to bring the Macedonians into the League as quickly and easily as possible, all the Macedonian nobility were pardoned and given full citizenship.

Which was important for now Kleandros faced the far more serious threat of Pontus. An army had besieged the cities in Bithynia, and they controlled the coast. Any attempt at landing an army there would have been dangerous. Instead Telesphoros landed at Pontus with 36,000 men at his command. He quickly seized control of the capital and moved on Trapezus and Amisus. Lysimachus in another brilliant naval battle easily sank the entire enemy fleet. The Pontians eventually managed to subdue Bithynia, and the two armies finally met in Paphlagonia.

The Pontian commander was Sthenelaus Lagids, a descendant of Ptolemy and a general even the great Lysimachus respected. Telesphoros was no match for him, and despite having superior numbers, he was forced to withdraw back to Amisus.

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While Sthenelaus marched to free Pontus, Nikomedes Omirid led a second army to liberate Bithynia. At the same time that he received word of victory from Bithynia, Kleandros was notified that rebels had seized control of Cyprus from the Egyptians and declared an independent state. The Egyptian military, having barely started to rebuild from their previous war with the League, was unable to reclaim the island.

Kleandros convinced the Senate of the need to immediately liberate Cyprus, and Nikomedes' army was rerouted to the Mediterranean.

Back in Asia, Telesphoros marched back into Paphlagonia and captured the region. But Sthenelaus meanwhile had reclaimed the rest of the kingdom. Both countries were exhausted. A stalemate had been reached. Diplomats were exchanged, and Pontus agreed to cede the province of Paphlagonia to the League. One month later, the last fortress on Cyprus fell to Nikomedes and the island was added to the League as well.

The Nesiotic League January 517 AVC
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Comparison of major powers
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Well done, but how did you annex Macedonia when they had two provinces? Is that a feature of the Epigoni mod?
 
Well done, but how did you annex Macedonia when they had two provinces? Is that a feature of the Epigoni mod?

Thats a feature of the 2.3x beta patches, which the Epigoni mod is compatible with.

how do you get this pic

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nice aar btw will follow it from work (to busy learning the game at home)

It's just F12 for the map, F11 for a regular screenshot. I did some quick work in paint to add the names and make it look a little prettier.