let's play rome total war

[duby]

well, there are spartans, anyway.

real men kiss other men and give women handshakes

damn cant rember the name of the movie this is from >.<

[postrook]

Scorn Defeat Part 1

in winter of 279 bc construction finished on an archery range in Larissa and a barracks in Corinth, so we could begin creating troops there according to plan.



the attack on Athens begins. Arcesilaus of Himera lays siege to the city and orders the construction of sapping tunnels to undermine the city's great stone walls.



Meanwhile, Gyras has managed to starve the barbarian defenders of Sardica out of hiding, and they sally forth.



one unit runs directly into a phalanx and is quickly cut down.







another group of thracian mercenaries approaches the wall of spears, while a third group tries to run around its right flank. The general orders his own band of thracian mercenaries to attack to prevent this.

peltasts on both sides take up positions behind the infantry and begin throwing javelins at one another.







until a phalanx advances and reaches the barbarian peltasts positions, anyway.



with fighting still going on on the right flank, Gyras decides to take matters into his own hands.



Sardica is occupied more or less peacefully after that, and taxes are kept low so as to attract more colonists from Macedonia.