Where to expand? Which factions to attack, which others to become allied to? What is our main goal?Īs the Seleucids, you have to be very careful early on. While land trade is an option, sea trade is hardly significant early on as you own few cities with a harbor.Īfter having observed our situation, making a general plan for your campaign would be the logical next step.
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While the province Babylonia is very fertile, due to the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, most other regions you own are rather dry and barren as they are full of deserts and mountain ranges. However, south of your kingdom lies the biggest challenge, the mighty Ptolemic (Egyptian) Empire. They are not such a threat to you as their settlements are scattered all over the Mediterranean Sea. In the far west of your empire, one of your cities (Sardis) will border Greek territory. Further to the west, north of you, there are the Armenians and the people of Pontus, two small but potentially dangerous kingdoms. To the north-east of your small empire you will find the Parthians, a fierce, barbarian horse people. Your regions range from Asia Minor (modern Turkey) to the mountainous regions of Persia. When you start your campaign, you will have 6 cities, one diplomat and one spy. It seems you have taken up the challenge to lead the Seleucids to victory.
Map of the Seleucid Empire at its greatest extent. May the Seleucid Empire live on and become more powerful than ever, crushing all of its enemies and recreating the long-lost kingdom of Alexander! Will the Seleucids be able to live up to their great ancestor, will they be able to honor Alexander? On the coast of the Black Sea, the kingdom of Pontus has risen and in the northern mountains of the Caucasus, Armenia is waiting for a sign of weakness. The Egyptians, also a successor state, are more powerful than ever. Over the next decades, he and his successors were amongst the most powerful rulers in the known world.īut are they able to face the dangers of the future? A new threat is rising in the east, the Parthian steppe people are deploying armies are near the Seleucid borders. the vast lands of Persia, Babylonia and Syria for himself. One of Alexander's most worthy and capable generals, a man called Seleucus, took the center of the former Persian empire. Soon, his generals divided the lands amongst themselves and bloody wars for supremacy began. However, at the early age of 33 years the famous man died and left his young empire for other people to fight over. On the ruins of that kingdom, he founded his own. In the fourth century BC, the Macedonian king Alexander, often called "Megas" (Greek for "the Great"), managed to beat and destroy the Achaemenid Persian Empire which ranged from the deserts of Africa to the rivers of India. Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Empire.
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