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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
Medway (43 AD) Scenario#: 407 Date: 43-AD Location: Kent, England In 43 AD, Aulus Plautius led an expedition of four legions to Britain. His army advanced with only minor skirmishing as far as Rutupiae on the coast of Kent. Late in the season, Roman scouts finally found the enemy camped … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
Megalopolis (331 BC) Scenario#: 626 Date: 331-BC Location: Megalopolis, Greece Sparta had stood on the sidelines while Athens and Thebes battled Macedon at Chaeronea. As the Macedonian army plunged ever deeper into Asia, King Agis III sensed an opportunity to regain the hegemony of Greece for Sparta. Agis began secret … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Metaurus (207 BC) Scenario#: 12 Date: 207-BC Location: Fano, Italy In 207 BC Rome has a big problem—Hasdrubal and his army from Spain are in northern Italy, advancing to combine with Hannibal and possibly win the war. The Carthaginians have a problem too. The Romans know Hasdrubal is coming, but … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Milvian Bridge (312 AD) Scenario#: 423 Date: 312-AD Location: Rome, Italy While emperor Diocletian’s “Tetrarchy” system of shared power maintained calm for 20 years, eventually rivalries took over again. In 306 Maxentius proclaimed himself emperor, setting off another confused civil war. He gained great power when F.V… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
Mona Insulis (60 AD) Scenario#: C3i17 Date: 60-AD Location: Monastir, Wales The island of Anglesey (Ynys Mon to the Welsh and Mona Insulis to the Romans), rich in grain and copper mines, became a refuge for several tribes opposed to the Roman occupation of Britain. The druids there gave moral and … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #24
Mons Graupius (84 AD) Scenario#: 410 Date: 84-AD Location: Mons Graupius, Scotland After years of campaigns in northern Britain, Gnaeus Julius Agricola subdued all the tribes except the fierce Caledonians. Agricola maneuvered to bring the Caledonians to open battle. Determined to restore the security of his Highland home, the… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
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
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
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
Munda (45 BC) Scenario#: 319 Date: 45-BC Location: Andalusia, Spain Following Julius Caesar’s victory at Thapsus, the remnants of the Pompeian army under Titus Labienus fled to Spain. Here, the garrison legions had revolted in favor of Gnaeus Pompey, the eldest son of Pompey the Great. Pompey gathered a large … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Munychia (404 BC) Scenario#: 616 Date: 404-BC Location: Piraeus, Greece Thrasybulus and the Athenian exiles marched from Phyle to the port city of Piraeus. The next day, oligarchic forces under the command of Critias, one of the Thirty Tyrants, marched out to meet them. Thrasybulus had taken a defensive position … 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
Naissus (268 AD) Scenario#: 418 Date: 268-AD Location: Naissus, Serbia The Goths, a Germanic people, were migrating southward and crossed the Roman frontier in the province of Pannonia. The emperor Gallienus, fresh from his victory over another Germanic tribe, the Alemani, managed to check the Goth’s advance early in… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
Nemea (394 BC) Scenario#: 619 Date: 394-BC Location: Nemea, Greece After the Theban victory at the battle of Haliartus, Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos joined together in an anti-Spartan alliance. Aristodemus was sent north to challenge the alliance and the two armies met near the dry riverbed of Nemea. The … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Nisibis (217 AD) Scenario#: 413 Date: 217-AD Location: Nusaybin, Turkey For centuries, Rome and Parthia contended for dominance in the Middle East. Nisibis 217 AD was a three-day battle with the Romans led by their new emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus against the Great King of Parthia, Artabanus IV. On the … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
Olpae (426 BC) Scenario#: 609 Date: 426-BC Location: Argos, Greece During the Second, or Great, Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) the Athenians recognized their inferiority to Sparta in land warfare, and chose to fight with proxy forces and at sea. Nevertheless, there were many small battles, and the clash at Olpae … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Orongis (212 BC) Scenario#: C3i04 Date: 212-BC Location: Orongis, Spain Mago Barca began the Second Punic War as a subordinate commander under his brother Hannibal. In 215 he was given command of his own army, and sent to Spain to reinforce his other brother, Hasdrubal. Mago fought a series of … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #19
Panormus (250 BC) Scenario#: C3i03 Date: 250-BC Location: Palermo, Sicily Following the disaster at Bagradas only a few hundred of Regulus’ men ever made it back to Rome. But they were enough to spread the horrible stories of being trampled by elephants, and cut down by cavalry. Despite his defeat … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #18
Paraitacene (317 BC) Scenario#: 113 Date: 317-BC Location: Isfahan, Iran By 318 BC the Successors had formed two competing alliances: the ‘Royalists’ who claimed to fight to maintain the empire for Alexander’s infant sons, and a rival coalition that sought to claim their own independent kingdoms. The opposing Successor… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms
Paraitacene (317 BC) Scenario#: 511 Date: 317-BC Location: Isfahan, Iran After the battle of Asculum, Pyrrhus left Italy for a three-year campaign in Sicily. Although he defeated the Carthaginians in every battle, he could not drive them off the island. Pyrrhus decided to return to Italy. Years of attrition and … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II
Paraitacene (317 BC) Scenario#: C3i22 Date: 317-BC Location: Eisfahan, Persia By 318 BC the Successors had formed two competing alliances: the ‘Royalists’ who claimed to fight to maintain the empire for Alexander’s infant sons, and a rival coalition that sought to claim their own independent kingdoms. The opposing Successor… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #26
Pavia (271 AD) Scenario#: 421 Date: 271-AD Location: Pavia, Italy After the victory at Fano, Emperor Aurelian sent his troops in pursuit of the defeated Alemanni horde, which was racing back to its homeland. Aurelian had the mountain passes blocked and then proceeded to destroy almost the entire Alemanni army. … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
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
Philippi I (42 BC) Scenario#: 403 Date: 42-BC Location: Filippoi, Greece Caesar’s assassination plunged the Roman world into chaos and civil war. On one side was the Second Triumvirate of Mark Anthony, Aemilius Lepidus, and Octavian, Caesar’s nephew, which aimed to avenge Caesar’s murder. Opposing them were the assassins… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
Philippi II (42 BC) Scenario#: 404 Date: 42-BC Location: Filippoi, Greece After the first battle of Philippi, a fleet bringing supplies to Anthony and Octavian’s army was destroyed and supplies for the Triumvirate legions began running out. Brutus was content to watch the army of Antony and Octavian starve. However, the … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
Phyle (404 BC) Scenario#: 615 Date: 404-BC Location: Phyle, Greece Following Athens’ defeat in the Peloponnesian War, the victorious Spartans imposed an oligarchic government on the city which became known as the Thirty Tyrants. Late in 404, Thrasybulus, leading a force of Anthenian exiles, gathered at Phyle near… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
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
Piraeus (403 BC) Scenario#: 617 Date: 403-BC Location: Piraeus, Greece After the Thirty were deposed, the new government, although more moderate, was not ready to compromise with the Athenian exiles, who now held the Athenian port of Piraeus. The new government sent emissaries to Sparta, and Sparta sent Pausanias at … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
Placentia (271 AD) Scenario#: 419 Date: 271-AD Location: Piacenza, Italy Aurelian became emperor in 270, and is remembered as one of the “soldier-emperors” who restored the empire after its near collapse. During his five-year reign, Aurelian re-united the empire after two-thirds of the provinces had broken away from… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome
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
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
Po River (203 BC) Scenario#: C3i06 Date: 203-BC Location: Po Valley, Italy Following Scipio’s victory at Ilipa in 206 Mago once again sailed to the Balearic Isles to recruit mercenaries. Then, rather than fall back to Africa, as everyone expected, Mago launched the third Barcid invasion of Italy. With new levies from … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #19
Pydna (168 BC) Scenario#: 124 Date: 168-BC Location: Pydna, Greece The Roman victory at Cynoscephalae (197) had humbled, but not eliminated, the Macedonian army. As the reality of Roman world domination became clear, most of Greece rallied to support Perseus, the son of Philip V. The Third Macedonian War broke … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms
Raphia (217 BC) Scenario#: 119 Date: 217-BC Location: Raphia, Gaza Strip The Wars of the Successors led to the establishment of three Hellenistic Kingdoms: the Antigonids (Macedon), the Ptolemies (Egypt) and the Seleucids (from Asia Minor to India). The Seleucid Empire began to fragment, losing Judea and most of its… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms
Raphia (217 BC) Scenario#: 503 Date: 217-BC Location: Raphia, Gaza Strip The Wars of the Successors led to the establishment of three Hellenistic Kingdoms: the Antigonids (Macedon), the Ptolemies (Egypt), and the Seleucids (from Asia Minor to India). The Seleucid Empire began to fragment, losing Judea and most of its… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II
River Centrites (401 BC) Scenario#: 618 Date: 401-BC Location: Baghdad, Iraq After the battle of Cunaxa, the Ten Thousand chose Cheirisophus and Xenophon as leaders. Xenophon led an organized retreat through Carducia and Armenia toward the Black Sea, constantly harassed first by Persian armies and then by local tribes. Using… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
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
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
Ruspina (46 BC) Scenario#: 317 Date: 46-BC Location: Monastir, Tunisia Following his victory over Pharnaces at Zela, Julius Caesar returned to Rome where a crisis was brewing – the surviving veterans had grown very war-weary and were refusing orders to deploy overseas yet again. Caesar’s personal appeal sparked a… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars
Scirthaea (103 BC) Scenario#: 205 Date: 103-BC Location: Caltabellotta, Sicily The fiercest Slave revolt outbreak, before Spartacus, was known as the Second Sicilian Slave War (104-100 BC). Publius Licinius Nerva, governor of Sicily, in accordance with a Senatorial order that no citizen of an allied state could be kept as … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
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
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
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
Sphacteria (425 BC) Scenario#: 610 Date: 425-BC Location: Spacteria, Greece After the Battle of Pylos, a force of Spartan soldiers was isolated on the island of Sphacteria. Demosthenes, commanding the force at Pylos, initially planned to starve the Spartans out, but it became clear over time that the Spartans would … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans
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
Tanagra (457 BC) Scenario#: 608 Date: 457-BC Location: Tanagra, Greece The First Peloponnesian War (460-445 BC) broke out due to Megara’s defection from the Spartan alliance, and Spartan envy and fear over the growth of the Athenian Empire. Nicomedes marched an army into Boeotia in 457 BC to intervene in … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #6: The Spartans