AAR Egypt AVC 485-499
As the year 485 AVC dawned, the Egyptian empire was experiencing continued growth, peace, and prosperity. In the previous ten years, the Egyptian King had managed to stay out of any major conflicts, while defeating and annexing the Greek islands of Rhodes and Crete, and the Greek city of Sparta. The possibilities were endless. Should they expand westward (toward Carthage), North (towards Macedonia), East (towards their ally the Seleucid Empire), or rally the remaining super-powers to face the ever expanding Romans?
After pondering the maps, meeting with diplomats from all the major powers, and conferring with his closest advisors, the mighty King agreed on a plan to honor their alliance with the Seleucid Empire and divide up the Macedonian territory, since Macedonia was suffering a leadership vaccuum (the prior Macedonia player could not make the session and left his country in the hands of the AI). The Egyptian King knew that if they didn't act quickly, the Romans certainly would. (They would later be proven right, as Rome later demolished the leaderless Macedonians.) However, Egypt lacked a cause for war with the Macedonias, and rather than cause more instability at home, they sent their best asassins to Macedonia to stir up trouble. To their surprise, they not only succeed once in eliminating a 10 martial ranking general, but also in eliminating a 9 rated general as well, all without being detected. Once they were finally caught on a third try, Macedonia knew better than to harm the guilty party.
With the war with Macedonia on the back burner, Egpyt answered the call of her junior ally Armenia who was battling pesky Pontus. However, this must have caused some major sort of disturbance and upheval amongst the Egyptian government, that Civil War erupted and sides were taken.
Once the dust settled, to the Egyptian King's horror, over 50,000 of Egypt's most experienced and well lead troops, including all elephant regiments, joined the rebellion. The great King was left with only 15,000 troops, and fortunately the entire navy of 30 plus ships.
The rebels quickly overtook the entire Egyptian mainland, while the King's army retreated to Sparta, its eastern meditteranean islands of Rhodes and Crete, and the shores of Asia minor. After much patience, a large army was raised and dropped in western Egypt. The King's army won victory after victory, however, they would lose a key battle where their battered and bruised troops were simply overwhelmed by the rebels use of elephants. How ironic that the King's own investment in the most lethal form of combat regiment would lead to his downfall. With all his armies broken and suffering tremendous casualties, the armies boarded their ships and set sail for the Greek Islands to take on fresh recruits.
Currently, the King's army is outnumbered, out manned, suffering terribly in competent generals, and simply cannot gain a foothold on the Egyptian mainland. They are forced to defend the territories in which they have remaining. It is stretching their new found economy to the limit.
So the question is, how long can they remain fighting this losing battle? Will any of their supposed allies come to their aid? Or will Egypt simply be swallowed up by an opportunistic ruler from a distant land? Only the future can tell. But one thing is for sure. The great true Egyptian people will fight without complaint until their last drop of blood is spilt. Hopefully, this page in history will survive so future generations can learn of what it means to fight with honor.
