This past Saturday was a beautiful October day sunny with highs in the mid 70's Some brief correspondence revealed that John was available for a 'socially distanced' and masked outdoor game on the Patio. Alexander’s death was so sudden that when reports of his death reached Greece, they were not immediately believed.

I think 'secretly' is a bit of a stretch. All lesser nations should tremble at the name, but now Macedon is a shadow of what was and, perhaps, the seed of what could be. As the Roman and Macedonian armies neared each other, skirmishes broke out between scouts near the town of Pherae. Youthfulness appears widely in Polybius as something whose failings and weakness can be disadvantageous for a leader, in spite of more positive examples of young men such as Aratus of Sicyon and Scipio Aemilianus. Throughout the history of the Civilization franchise, whenever you see Alexander as a leader, you'd better expect he will lead his people into an endless war. Another, more plausible, story claims that Alexander passed his signet ring to Perdiccas… According to Diodorus, an ancient Greek historian, Alexander’s companions asked him on his deathbed to whom he bequeathed his kingdom.

Shortly after the game starts, Macedon will be given an ultimatum by the Antigonid Kingdom to surrender Korinthos (418), their last fortress in The First Macedonian War was a diversion during the Punic Wars.It was brought on by the alliance of Philip V of Macedonia and Hannibal of Carthage (following Philip's naval expedition against Illyria in 216 and then again, in 214 followed by land-based conquests). Philip V of Macedon - brief sketch in Wikipedia's web with hyperlinks to detailed articles on the first Macedonian war & the battle of Cynoscephalae. The birthplace of Alexander the Great! The war also proved the superiority of the Roman legion over the Greek phalanx formation. actually ca mentioned that the only faction to rival rome in military power is macedon in one of their pre release propaganda #11.

Today we are going to look at the faction of Macedon. In this book, which was formed from The Hare Prize Essay for 1939 and first published in 1940, Walbank presents a detailed discussion of the reign of Philip V of Macedon. With such a game needing to be set up and taken down quickly, To the Strongest! In 179 BC, Philip V of Macedon died. By 323 BCE, when he was 32 or so, Rome was engaged in a death struggle with the Samnites, which would go on for at least another thirty years.

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