BYZANTIUM
RECOVERY AND RECONQUEST
The Glorious days of the Macedonian Emperors are over. Since then the Empire has fallen into disrepair and chaos. The once mighty Roman armies are now little more than a poorly armed mob and the borders, which in living memory stretched from Italy in the West to the Euphrates in the East, are now shrunken and there are enemies at the very gates of Constantinople.
Asia Minor, once the greatest recruiting ground for us, is all but lost to the Turks and what's worse is that it was lost without a fight. The last hope for the us seemed to die on a battlefield outside Manzikert ten years ago when Romanus IV Diogenes was defeated and captured. Since the light of the Empire and, with it, Roman prestige has succumbed to darkness.
But in the darkness there is a glimmer of light. One man has made himself master of Constantinople and is set to revive the Empire and bring order and strength to the world once again. His name is Alexius Comnenus.
Will he and his dynasty breath life to the Empire once more and make the name Comneni echo through eternity as the saviour of the Romans?
Or will he fall like so many of his predecessors and allow the Empire to plunge into darkness?
Whatever the outcome, his and his successors' task will not be easy.