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Plataea (479 BC) Scenario#: 103 Date: 479-BC Location: Plataea, Greece The Persian emperor Xerses I led a massive invasion of Greece to avenge the defeat of his father’s forces at Marathon. After annihilating the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, Xerxes captured and burned Athens. Macedon, Thessaly and Boeotia submitted to… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms
Plataea (479 BC) Scenario#: 515 Date: 479-BC Location: Plataea, Greece The Carthaginians learned from earlier defeats in Sicily that they had to field reliable, trained heavy infantry of their own. They formed the Sacred Band, a force of about 2500 excellently trained Carthaginians, as good or better than anything the … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II
Plataea (479 BC) Scenario#: 606 Date: 479-BC Location: Plataea, Greece The Persian emperor Xerxes I led a massive invasion of Greece to avenge the defeat of his father’s forces at Marathon. After annihilating the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, Xerxes captured and burned Athens. Macedon, Thessaly and Boeotia submitted to… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Mycale (479 BC) Scenario#: 607 Date: 479-BC Location: ionia, Greece In the spring of 479 BC, various Ionian cities began a revolt against their Persian rulers, and soon were forced to turn to the Greek mainland for help. A meeting was called in Athens, and a Greek fleet of 110 … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Brindisi Raid (48 BC) Scenario#: 313 Date: 48-BC Location: Brindisi, Italy While Julius Caesar was campaigning in Spain, Gnaeus Pompey was building a new army in Greece. After returning to Italy, Caesar made a risky January crossing of the Adriatic with a portion of his army, resolving to defeat his rival … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Dyrrhachium (48 BC) Scenario#: 314 Date: 48-BC Location: Durres, Albania Julius Caesar crossed the Adriatic with seven depleted legions in order to confront Gnaeus Pompey’s main army and bring the civil war to an end. Antony, with the remaining five legions, was delayed (see Brindisi Raid). Caesar followed Pompey to … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Pharsalus (48 BC) Scenario#: 315 Date: 48-BC Location: Farsala, Greece After Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar pulled back to regroup his army. Gnaeus Pompey failed to follow up his victory and pursued slowly. After a winter of maneuvering through Thessaly, Pompey encamped at the foot of the mountains near Pharsalus and was … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Himera (480 BC) Scenario#: 102 Date: 480-BC Location: Himera, Sicily Phoenicia and Greece both colonized the western Mediterranean. Carthage unified the Punic cities into an empire, while Syracuse rose to become the leading Greek city under its first Tyrant, Gelon. With Theron of Akragas, Gelon took control of Himera… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms
Thermopylae - Middle Gate (480 BC) Scenario#: 604 Date: 480-BC Location: Thermopylae, Greece King Xerxes desired to punish the Athenians for his father’s defeat at Marathon and their support for Ionian revolts. He planned a second invasion of Greece in 480 BC and amassed a huge army to extend the Persian Empire into … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Thermopylae - Grand Overview (480 BC) Scenario#: 605 Date: 480-BC Location: Thermopylae, Greece King Xerxes desired to punish the Athenians for his father’s defeat at Marathon and their support for Ionian revolts. He planned a second invasion of Greece in 480 BC and amassed a huge to extend the Persian Empire … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Ilerda (49 BC) Scenario#: 309 Date: 49-BC Location: Lleida, Spain After driving Gnaeus Pompey from Italy, Julius Caesar moved against Pompey’s forces in Spain. Caesar had sent Gaius Fabius ahead to secure the passes over the Pyrenees and at the Sicoris River. Fabius succeeded, and his opponent, Pompey’s lieutenant… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Utica P1 Delaying Action (49 BC) Scenario#: 310 Date: 49-BC Location: Utica, Tunisia The First Triumverate of Crassus, Pompey and Julius Caesar collapsed soon after Crassus was defeated and killed by the Parthians at Carrhae in 53 BC. With Crassus gone, the rivalry between Pompey and Caesar steadily grew until civil war erupted … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Utica P2 The Valley (49 BC) Scenario#: 311 Date: 49-BC Location: Utica, Tunisia Caesar had sent his general, Gaius Curio, to attack Pompey’s lieutenant, Attius Varus, in Africa. Varus was in camp below the walls of Utica. When a relief army sent by King Juba of Numidia arrived to reinforce Varus, Curio had … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Bagradas River (49 BC) Scenario#: 312 Date: 49-BC Location: Bagradas River, Tunisia King Juba of Numidia continued to support the Pompeians, even after Varus’ defeat at Utica. Curio led his Caesarian army after Varus, catching up with him at the Bagradas River. Curio attacked and routed the demoralized Pompeian army, and Varus … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Marathon (490 BC) Scenario#: 101 Date: 490-BC Location: Marathon, Greece King Darius I of Persia sent an expedition against Athens in reprisal for the burning of Sardes in 498 BC during the failed Ionian Revolt. The Persian fleet under the joint command of Datis and Artaphernes landed near Marathon bay, … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms
Marathon (490 BC) Scenario#: 516 Date: 490-BC Location: Marathon, Greece The Persian emperor Xerxes I led a massive invasion of Greece to avenge the defeat of his father’s forces at Marathon. After annihilating the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, Xerxes burned Athens, then Macedon, Thessaly, and Boeotia submitted. However,… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II
Sepeia (494 BC) Scenario#: 603 Date: 494-BC Location: Argolis, Greece Cleomenes I of Sparta, inspired by the words of the oracle at Delphi that he would take Argos, marched into Argive territory. It was here that the Argive army took up a defensive position. The Argive generals wanted to be … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Gergovia (52 BC) Scenario#: 308 Date: 52-BC Location: Gergovia, France Julius Caesar had conquered Gaul in just six years of campaigning (58-53 BC). However, in 52 BC most of the tribes of Gaul rose in a general revolt. Vercingetorix, a chieftain of the Averni, became overall commander of the rebel … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Carrhae (53 BC) Scenario#: 402 Date: 53-BC Location: Carrhae, Turkey Along with Pompey and Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus formed the secret “Triumvirate” which all but controlled Rome. Reputedly the richest man in Rome, Crassus lacked any great military achievement to compare with Caesar’s conquest of Gaul and… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
River Stour (54 BC) Scenario#: 218 Date: 54-BC Location: Kent, England In 54 BC, Caesar launched a second invasion of Britain which was better planned and far more formidable than the first one. The invasion force consisted of five legions, auxiliaries, and 2000 cavalry, transported on 800 vessels. The Britons, awed … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Foraging Party (54 BC) Scenario#: 219 Date: 54-BC Location: Wheathampstead, England When Caesar resumed his march inland, the Britons united under their newly appointed leader, Cassivellaunus. He ordered his troops to avoid pitched battles with the legions. Instead, they were to just harry the flanks of the legions and to attrit … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Thyreatis (545 BC) Scenario#: 602 Date: 545-BC Location: Thyrea, Greece Sparta and Argos were quarreling over Thyreatis, a territory which was occupied by Sparta, but belonged to Argos. The Argives marched out to recover their land, but instead of engaging in battle, the two armies agreed that rather than commit … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Invasion of Britain (55 BC) Scenario#: 217 Date: 55-BC Location: Pegwell Bay, England With most of Gaul under his control, Caesar saw a need to pacify the nearby British coast, lest this island serve as a sanctuary and base for anti-Roman Gauls. Caesar sailed to Britain late in the campaign season with only … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Sotium (56 BC) Scenario#: 216 Date: 56-BC Location: Gulf of Morbihan, France Following two years of successful campaigning, Caesar believed he had pacified southern and western Gaul and left for Illyria. Sensing an opportunity, the Veneti and neighboring tribes on the Atlantic coast rebelled. These coastal tribes had their… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
River Sabis (57 BC) Scenario#: 215 Date: 57-BC Location: Saulzoir, France Gaius Julius Caesar formed a political alliance with Gnaeus Pompey and Licinius Crassus that became known as the “First Triumvirate.” Caesar obtained the governorship of Gaul as a proconsul, and immediately set about expanding his province from the… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Bibracte (58 BC) Scenario#: 306 Date: 58-BC Location: Saone-et-loire, France Gaius Julius Caesar, an ambitious Roman noble, had entered into a political alliance with Gnaeus Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus, which became known as the “First Triumvirate.” Caesar used these connections to obtain an appointment as proconsul… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Plain of Alsace (58 BC) Scenario#: 307 Date: 58-BC Location: Alsace, France Ariovistus was the chief of the Germanic Suebi tribe. He led his tribesmen across the Rhine into Gaul at the invitation of some warring Gallic tribes. Once in Gaul, Ariovistus called on his German allies, the Harudes, Marcomanni, Triboci, Vangiones,… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Hysiae (669 BC) Scenario#: 601 Date: 669-BC Location: Argolis, Greece King Darius I of Persia sent an expedition against Athens in reprisal for the burning of Sardes in 498 BC during the failed Ionian Revolt. The Persian fleet under the joint command of Datis and Artaphernes landed near Marathon bay, … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Tigranocerta (69 BC) Scenario#: 401 Date: 69-BC Location: Diyarbakır, Turkey Mithridates VI of Pontus challenged Rome for control of Asia Minor and Greece while the Romans were distracted in the Italian War. Although Rome defeated Mithridates in the First and Second Mithridatic Wars, he was allowed to maintain his kingdom … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
Bruttium (71 BC) Scenario#: 212 Date: 71-BC Location: Strongoli, Italy Spartacus retreated through Lucania into Bruttium and toward the sea. He encamped at Rhegium where he attempted to gain passage to Sicily with the help of some Cilician pirate ships. Spartacus judged he could open a new front against Rome … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Camalatrum (71 BC) Scenario#: 213 Date: 71-BC Location: Basilicata, Italy After Spartacus escaped the Roman siege in Bruttium, the Gallic section of his slave army moved separately under the command of Cannicus and Castus. Marcus Licinius Crassus was now in a race, not only with the enemy, but also with … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Silarus (71 BC) Scenario#: 214 Date: 71-BC Location: Silarus, Italy Spartacus found his army trapped between the armies of Marcus Licinius Crassus to his front and Gnaeus Pompey, approaching from the rear. Crassus had started construction of his camp when a skirmish between the two armies escalated into a full … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Mt Garganus (72 BC) Scenario#: 209 Date: 72-BC Location: Mt. Garganus, Italy Spartacus was an able strategist, and he knew that his rag-tag army could not expect to defy Rome indefinitely. Spartacus planned to escape from Roman territory over the Alps, and headed north through Apulia. He divided his ever-growing army and … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Picenum (72 BC) Scenario#: 210 Date: 72-BC Location: Marche, Italy Following the defeat of his lieutenant Crixus, Spartacus continued north for the Alps, passing through Picenum. Two Roman armies moved against him. From the south, the consul Lucius Gellius Publicola pursued with his army, fresh from his victory at… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Mummius Defeat (72 BC) Scenario#: 211 Date: 72-BC Location: Abruzzo, Italy In the autumn of 72 BC, Marcus Licinius Crassus was chosen by the Senate to lead the war against Spartacus’ slave army. Crassus, a leading politician, was also rumored to be the richest man in Rome. How all this would … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Mt Vesuvius (73 BC) Scenario#: 208 Date: 73-BC Location: Mt. Vesuvius, Italy The greatest slave revolt against Rome was led by a gladiator named Spartacus. He was a Thracian slave, trained as a gladiator by his owner, Lentulus Batiatus, at a gladiatorial school near Capua. Spartacus escaped from the school with 78 … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Valentia (75 BC) Scenario#: 304 Date: 75-BC Location: Valentia, Spain In the campaigns fought in Spain following the battle of Lauron, Quintus Sertorius proved to be a superior general to Gnaeus Pompey. However, Pompey recognized that even if he couldn’t defeat Sertorius, he could defeat his lieutenants. Pompey had… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Sucro (75 BC) Scenario#: 305 Date: 75-BC Location: Valentia, Spain Gnaeus Pompey had regained his confidence after his victory at Valentia, and now moved quickly to engage Quintus Sertorius before Quintus Caecilius Metellus could arrive with his reinforcing army and share in the honor of victory. Sertorius was… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Lauron (76 BC) Scenario#: 303 Date: 76-BC Location: Valencia, Spain Quintus Sertorius defeated a series of Roman generals and nearly all of Spain joined his rebellion. He solidified his support through a just administration of the provinces and gained the loyalty of most of the Spanish tribes. Sertorius came to … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Baetis River (80 BC) Scenario#: 302 Date: 80-BC Location: Gibraltar, Gibraltar Quintus Sertorius was a Roman noble who gained a reputation as a skillful military commander in the wars with the Cimbri and Teutones, and then in the Social War. Sertorius supported Marius’ “populares” and opposed Sullas’ “optimates” during the… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Colline Gate (82 BC) Scenario#: 301 Date: 82-BC Location: Rome, Italy Lucius Cornelius Sulla became the leader of the “optimates” faction in the civil war with the “populares” led by Gaius Marius. Sulla seized Rome in 88 BC and reorganized the government to his liking. However, when Sulla marched east to … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Catalaunian Fields (Roman Left) Scenario#: 2 Date: 0451-06-20 Location: Champagne-Ardenne, France Attila had a pretext for invading Gaul. Honoria, the older sister of the Western Roman Emperor, appealed directly to Attila to escape an arranged marriage. Attila eagerly accepted the ‘proposal’ and demanded a dowry of half the Western Empire. The … Commands & Colors: Medieval — C&C Medieval
Callinicum (Phase 1) Scenario#: 8 Date: 0531-04-19 Location: Callinicum, Syria In the spring of 531 AD, the Persian army, now commanded by the able general Azarethes, again invaded the Byzantine territory of Syria. Belisarius was caught off guard by the new direction of the invasion, yet he quickly marched a … Commands & Colors: Medieval — C&C Medieval
Arita Castle 1517 - Phase 1 Takeda Vanguard Scenario#: 2 Date: October, 1517 Location: Aki Province, Japan When the head of the Mori Clan died suddenly, Takeda Motoshige saw the opportunity to advance into Mori territory and capture Arita Castle. Provoked into action, Motonari, just a young man of 20 years, mobilized the Mori clan and set … Samurai Battles
Arita Castle 1517 - Phase 2 Matauchi River Scenario#: 3 Date: October, 1517 Location: Aki Province, Japan Takeda Mutushige, learning of the fate of Motonao, marched to the Matauchi River and found Motonari and his allies on the opposite bank. Although outnumbered, Motonari decided to attack and sent half his men across the river while a small … Samurai Battles
Koriyama Castle 1540 - River Enokawu Scenario#: 4 Date: June, 1540 Location: Yoshida, Aki Province, Japan Early in 1540, Akihisa, leader of the Amako, proposed a full-scale invasion against the Mori. Before attacking the capital city of Mori, as an advance force, he sent the troops of Amako Kunihisa, of the Shinguto clan, via the Bingo … Samurai Battles
Koriyama Castle 1540 - September Scenario#: 5 Date: September, 1540 Location: Yoshida, Aki Province, Japan In early September, Motonari sent a small group of Ashigaru across the Tajii to provoke the Amako into attacking. When the Amako troops came out to drive them back, the Ashigaru fled back across the river to the safety of … Samurai Battles
Koriyama Castle 1540 - October Scenario#: 6 Date: October, 1540 Location: Yoshida, Aki Province, Japan ln October, although rebuffed on a number of occasions, Akíhisa renewed the offensive, burning the remaining buildings outside the castle. Mori Motonari still believed he could prevail and decided to risk a general engagement, but before he marched… Samurai Battles
Koriyama Castle 1541 - January Scenario#: 7 Date: January, 1540 Location: Yoshida, Aki Province, Japan In late December, Sue Harukata arrived with the Ouchi relief force, Motonari decided to strike again and ordered Harukata to guard his rear with the Ouchi, while he moved to attack the Amako allied camp at Miyazaki Nagao. But Harukata … Samurai Battles
First Battle of Azukizaka 1542 Scenario#: 8 Date: August, 1542 Location: Azukizaka, Mikawa Province, Japan The Oda and Imagawa were great rivals, but fighting between these two families was rare, for the two were separated by the domains of the Matsudaira family. In 1542, however, Oda Nobuhide and Imagawa Yashimoto, seeking to extend their influence … Samurai Battles