Age of Alexander Dev Stream X - Retaking Italy
Hello everyone.
It's been quite a long time since we played the Hellas campaign in the Age of Alexander, time to jump in again, what do you think? We will stream the tenth episode on Wednesday 20th at 9PM CEST (12PM PDT - 8PM BST) so set a reminder and join us:)
Many things changed in the last episode. If you didn't see it, you can watch it here:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Here is a recap of the main events:
At the beginning of the last episode we set a few objectives. We wanted to take over Corsica, which was mostly controlled by Persia at the time, we also wanted to expand into the Balkans from our domains in Italy and take some of the independent cities on the way, but foremost in our plans was to try and take control of Crete away from the Spartans, this was where all our attempts resulted in a total and utter failure.
The operation on Corsica went quite well. We landed two legions, the Persians did not have enough troops posted there and their remaining forces fortified themselves in the city of Kanelate in the north of the island. Kanelate was protected by city walls and it required several attempts to defeat the defenders and we took a considerable number of casualties. The city and most of the island are now in our hands.
The Crete theatre looked a bit worse. The war over the island has been raging for several years and the resistance of Spartan defenders was really tough. They even managed to take back some of the territory we had previously conquered and pushed our forces into a small region on the coast around Itanos. Luckily for us, we had fortified the city with a palisade and we had brought in reinforcements to replace the exhausted units. We landed troops on the opposite side of the island in an attempt to attack the Spartans from two sides. This strategy paid off when we took the city of Gortyn. Nevertheless, the war against Sparta is not yet over. They still possess the island of Naxos with their capital, a goal for the next episode.
Tergeste, a city near our border in Italy was also conquered, so all three of our objectives were met!
The last "hot border" was the Persian battlefront where our progress has slowed down. We were able to conquer the inland cities of Tyana, Peion and Amaseia and Side on the Mediterranean coast, but the Persians pushed us back and reconquered Side and nearby territories. Both sides are tired and the armies are damaged and weak. On the other hand, we have some reinforcements on the way but it is hard to say if they would be able to make any progress. In any case, we need them to rotate the tired units in order to keep the border stable and safe.
Aside from expansion, we concentrated our efforts on improving our economy. We started building paved roads across the empire that make transportation of goods and units much faster. New resource refineries in blacksmiths made production in the affected mines more efficient. Last but not least, we settled on Rhodos and built a new town called Gulussa there.
As for our foreign relations, the most cordial relationship is with Carthage. Thanks to the emissary Brygos who is stationed in Carthago and who lobbies our cause, it seems that Carthage will not meddle in our affairs on the opposite side of the Mediterranean Sea leaving the way for further expansion open.
So far it all sounds great, right? But here come the surprising events.
Scythia sent a federation proposal that we accepted (their own superstate controls Thrakia and Bosporan Kingdom). This had several important consequences:
The first was an increase in expenditure as we started to restructure the Scythian economy in an attempt to make it more efficient. Repositioning temples and blacksmiths, building better connections, improving cities, all in all it cost us quite a lot. On the other hand, the condition of their own federation was quite good enough to be considered a developed state.
By accepting the federation proposal, a new battlefront on the east coast of Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea) has opened. Probably one of the reasons why they wanted to create a federation with us was the fact that we shared the same arch enemy, Persia. They had been embroiled in a war with them for some time. Our initial optimism was however quite premature, we made some critical mistakes that caused us considerable losses in this area. We underestimated the strength of the Persian forces in the region and in a couple of turns we lost most of our units on this battlefront turning this territory into a weak spot of our border defense.
Through Thrakia who is a member of our great federation, we controlled pretty much 100% of the Illyrian border which should make it quite easy to conquer them. Control of the Illyrian territory would win us more victory points bringing the final victory into sight. At least that was the plan.
Unfortunately, it did not go as planned. Thrakia decided to leave the federation, luckily they did not want to go against us and they signed a brothers-in-arms pact with us.
Now comes the biggest let down of the last episode. When we joined a federation with the Roman Republic, the loyalty in some of the northern Italian cities was quite low. Entering into the new federation with Scythia resulted in an open revolt and a declaration of independence in the region. The new state is called Sabella and they control most of the northern Italian cities. The rest of the Roman Republic however stands still firmly by our side. Luckily, none of our military units joined the rebels which makes Sabella quite a weak opponent if we can pacify the civil war quickly. Bringing Italy back into our hands is a goal for the next episode.
The restructuring of the Scythian economy and the rebuild of the damaged cities in Italy and Anatolia drained our stone resources entirely. Some parts of the empire badly need repairs but our stone reserves are gone. We can only hope that this will not lead to unrest or even a civil war.
Let's play together on Wednesday 20th on our Twitch channel and find out. As always, Pavel will be happy to answer your questions during the stream so please join in on our Twitch channel.
See you there!
Yours,
Kube Games team.
P.S. Here is the episode in case you missed it.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
It's been quite a long time since we played the Hellas campaign in the Age of Alexander, time to jump in again, what do you think? We will stream the tenth episode on Wednesday 20th at 9PM CEST (12PM PDT - 8PM BST) so set a reminder and join us:)
Many things changed in the last episode. If you didn't see it, you can watch it here:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Here is a recap of the main events:
At the beginning of the last episode we set a few objectives. We wanted to take over Corsica, which was mostly controlled by Persia at the time, we also wanted to expand into the Balkans from our domains in Italy and take some of the independent cities on the way, but foremost in our plans was to try and take control of Crete away from the Spartans, this was where all our attempts resulted in a total and utter failure.
The operation on Corsica went quite well. We landed two legions, the Persians did not have enough troops posted there and their remaining forces fortified themselves in the city of Kanelate in the north of the island. Kanelate was protected by city walls and it required several attempts to defeat the defenders and we took a considerable number of casualties. The city and most of the island are now in our hands.
The Crete theatre looked a bit worse. The war over the island has been raging for several years and the resistance of Spartan defenders was really tough. They even managed to take back some of the territory we had previously conquered and pushed our forces into a small region on the coast around Itanos. Luckily for us, we had fortified the city with a palisade and we had brought in reinforcements to replace the exhausted units. We landed troops on the opposite side of the island in an attempt to attack the Spartans from two sides. This strategy paid off when we took the city of Gortyn. Nevertheless, the war against Sparta is not yet over. They still possess the island of Naxos with their capital, a goal for the next episode.
Tergeste, a city near our border in Italy was also conquered, so all three of our objectives were met!
The last "hot border" was the Persian battlefront where our progress has slowed down. We were able to conquer the inland cities of Tyana, Peion and Amaseia and Side on the Mediterranean coast, but the Persians pushed us back and reconquered Side and nearby territories. Both sides are tired and the armies are damaged and weak. On the other hand, we have some reinforcements on the way but it is hard to say if they would be able to make any progress. In any case, we need them to rotate the tired units in order to keep the border stable and safe.
Aside from expansion, we concentrated our efforts on improving our economy. We started building paved roads across the empire that make transportation of goods and units much faster. New resource refineries in blacksmiths made production in the affected mines more efficient. Last but not least, we settled on Rhodos and built a new town called Gulussa there.
As for our foreign relations, the most cordial relationship is with Carthage. Thanks to the emissary Brygos who is stationed in Carthago and who lobbies our cause, it seems that Carthage will not meddle in our affairs on the opposite side of the Mediterranean Sea leaving the way for further expansion open.
So far it all sounds great, right? But here come the surprising events.
Scythia sent a federation proposal that we accepted (their own superstate controls Thrakia and Bosporan Kingdom). This had several important consequences:
The first was an increase in expenditure as we started to restructure the Scythian economy in an attempt to make it more efficient. Repositioning temples and blacksmiths, building better connections, improving cities, all in all it cost us quite a lot. On the other hand, the condition of their own federation was quite good enough to be considered a developed state.
By accepting the federation proposal, a new battlefront on the east coast of Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea) has opened. Probably one of the reasons why they wanted to create a federation with us was the fact that we shared the same arch enemy, Persia. They had been embroiled in a war with them for some time. Our initial optimism was however quite premature, we made some critical mistakes that caused us considerable losses in this area. We underestimated the strength of the Persian forces in the region and in a couple of turns we lost most of our units on this battlefront turning this territory into a weak spot of our border defense.
Through Thrakia who is a member of our great federation, we controlled pretty much 100% of the Illyrian border which should make it quite easy to conquer them. Control of the Illyrian territory would win us more victory points bringing the final victory into sight. At least that was the plan.
Unfortunately, it did not go as planned. Thrakia decided to leave the federation, luckily they did not want to go against us and they signed a brothers-in-arms pact with us.
Now comes the biggest let down of the last episode. When we joined a federation with the Roman Republic, the loyalty in some of the northern Italian cities was quite low. Entering into the new federation with Scythia resulted in an open revolt and a declaration of independence in the region. The new state is called Sabella and they control most of the northern Italian cities. The rest of the Roman Republic however stands still firmly by our side. Luckily, none of our military units joined the rebels which makes Sabella quite a weak opponent if we can pacify the civil war quickly. Bringing Italy back into our hands is a goal for the next episode.
The restructuring of the Scythian economy and the rebuild of the damaged cities in Italy and Anatolia drained our stone resources entirely. Some parts of the empire badly need repairs but our stone reserves are gone. We can only hope that this will not lead to unrest or even a civil war.
Let's play together on Wednesday 20th on our Twitch channel and find out. As always, Pavel will be happy to answer your questions during the stream so please join in on our Twitch channel.
See you there!
Yours,
Kube Games team.
P.S. Here is the episode in case you missed it.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]