Faction: Epeiros
Turn: 339 Year: 188 B.C
Version: 2.3
Cheats: No cheats other than force diplomacy sometimes, when it made sense for me.
Current diplomacy status: War with Getai. Pergamon as Vassal, and ally to Ptolemaic empire and Bosphorus kingdom.
Army: 3 Stacks, one in Thrace, one in Macedonia, and one (faction leader, Basileus Prax, in Crimea).
Allied Cities: Athens, Sparta, Byzantium, city in Cyrenaica, Syracuse, Rhodes, Pergamon. (and maybe forgot some).
Small AAR of the campaign:
Pyrrhus quickly proceeded with war against Antigonus Gonatas, defeating him in a pitched battle, while his son Alexandros took Demetrias. Pyrrhus soon fell in another small skirmish however, and Alexandros was made king.
He then made peace with the Koinon Hellenon, liberated Athens from its Macedonian garrison (they had taken it), and left Antigonus' sons with only Corinth.
They proceeded to ask for war, and once again invaded Athens, and so Alexandros of Epeiros intervened and destroyed them again, this time placing his own garrison in Athens. Meanwhile, a roman army had landed on Illyria, which was taken care of in a pitched battle, and routed.
In the next decade, once again Macedon attempted to expand from Corinth, this time besieging Sparta, and Alexandros assisted the greeks once more, and took control of Corinth and the last refuge of the sons of Antigonus Gonatas.
However, with that done, Sparta, who had Crete and was ally of Rhodes, invaded the ptolemaic empire, and soon had taken all of their possesions in the coast, including Alexandria. After much deliberations, the king of Epeiros decided to intervene: He led an army and besieged sparta, while the grandson of Pyrrhus, Pyrrichos landed on egypt, and had several battles against the spartans, finally defeating them after a couple of years, and his army went so far as Cyrenaica: all cities but the one in that region were given back to the ptolemaic empire, and a firm alliance was made between their dynasty and the dynasty of Pyrrhus the Eagle. With the end of the campaign in egypt, most of the forces there while returning to greece, had a detour and captured Creta, while Rhodes fell to the city of Pergamon, who was in a rapid expansion in Anatolia.
The siege of Sparta ended after several seasons, and they were defeated, though the king Alexandros died.
Pyrrichos wasnt Basileus yet, but he quickly rose through the ranks and became the best general, overshadowing Pyrrhus himself with his achievements. Syracuse was captured by Carthage, and Rome had captured Messina, the two nations fighting over the isle. Syracusians came forth to Ambrakia asking for aid, and Pyrrichos led an army there, landing near the city, and proceeding to defeat a roman army that was in the region that was two times his own forces. After a few years of campaign, all of sicily was taken, and Epeiros with a massive shipbuilding campaign had also naval superiority. Peace was then made with the romans and the carthaginians, them accepting epeirote rule over sicily.
Next, Pergamon invaded Crete, and war was begun between them and Epeiros. In the first war, Pyrrichos liberated Rhodes and made peace. But in the next, again starting with pergamese aggression, he invaded Anatolia with two armies, and proceeded to liberate all the regions they had taken from the ptolemaic empire, placing his own garrisons there. Shortly after pergamon requested for peace, and was left with three cities.
Peace in the epeirote kingdom was short lived however, as another member of the Epeirote dynasty was made Basileus instead of Pyrrichos. Pyrrichos then led his army from Anatolia and invaded Greece. The two armies that remained went over to his enemies, and they met near Demetrias. As their forces were two times the size of Pyrrichos, the result went to the nick of it: Pyrrichos managed to kill much more of the enemy, but his line was soon broken, and he made a desperate attempt which proved succesful: an attack towards the enemy generals, they both were killed, and though Pyrrichos left the field to his battered enemies, he was proclaimed Basileus, and the Epeirote kingdom united once again.
The romans took advantage though, and decided to invade Sicily. In reply, Pyrrichos decided to invade Italy in support of magna grecia. But grim news had arrived, as Pyrrichos died at sea as he was leading an army to sicily. He had defeated the spartans, the romans, the carthaginians, the pergamese, and the macedonians, and his kin as well.
Two full armies were mustered to invade Italy, while one was left in asia minor, to watch over those pergamese dogs, and check hayasdan aggression.
The invasion of Italy started well, garrisoning the greek colonies, and proceeding to siege capua. However, the siege was lifted as it was taking long, and the Basileus decided to move towards Rome. A pitched battle was met in the road between the capital and Capua. Both sides had over 4000, but the romans managed to manouver and surround one of the two epeirote forces.
The battle started reasonably well, but without Pyrrichos and low on rations, morale was very low. Soon the two epeirote armies routed and were defeated in the worst defeat of the dynasty of Pyrrhus. Soon all epeirote forces retreated from italy, leaving the greek garrisons to their fate, while Pergamon decided to start another war in Anatolia.
Pergamon was thus defeated for a third time, this time by Basileus Prax, but now their city itself was taken, and their king was left with one city to the north, and made official vassal to Epeiros.
Lastly, warbands of the getai started invading anatolia through the helespont: they were checked by a joint army of pergamese and epeirote soldiers. Though their transgressions continued, and Prax decided to put an end to it, and secure the northern borders of his kingdom: He mustered an army and sailed forth to Crimea, in assistance of the Bosphorus kingdom, whom had requested aid against the getai invaders, while other two forces were left in macedonia and thrace to invade the getic settlements from the south.
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Originally Posted by Neyak
You stacked mid-Italy with three full flags in those three cities even though there is little external threat there. Those full flags accruing you 20k+ in army upkeep per turn, and you only netting 100 per turn 
I guess it must be the taste of the current Roman consuls to focus on a very large standing army under a heavily militarized republic.
its more to try and get the thread going really... that said, it doesn't appear that people are particularly interested anyway, but hey... one can hope haha
