text: There are ten Campaigns available from Ancient History ranging in length from one to nine battles and rated Easy, Medium or Hard Difficulty. Each Campaign has the same format, you are a Commander of 1000 Warriors who you command in battle and in every fight your objective is to kill as many Enemies as possible while losing as few Warriors Killed as possible. Warriors you lose Killed are subtracted from your Warriors total and if this ever reaches 0 then you are killed, ending the campaign.
  
  For every Enemy you kill you earn 1 Score Point and for every Warrior you lose Killed you lose 1 Score Point, your objective is to get the highest Score possible which is revealed at the end of the story if you leave a comment. If you are killed (your number of Warriors reaches 0) then you will be given the option to return to this page or finish the story and leave a comment, likewise if you complete a campaign you will be given the chance to return to the main page and try another campaign or finish the story. Your Score is carried over whether your Campaign ends in successful completion or death and completing all the campaigns will give you the highest score.
  
  So, in chronological order, here are the available Campaigns:
  
  > 2: The Athens-Sparta War (432-418BC) - HARD DIFFICULTY
  The year is 432BC and Greece stands on the brink of civil war. After nearly fifty years of peace following the repulse of the Persian Invasions the city-states of Greece have formed themselves into two alliances: the Delian League, led by Athens, and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta. Tensions are rising between these two sides and it only takes one small spark to ignite the most destructive civil war Greece has ever known...
  
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  The year is 432BC and Greece stands on the brink of civil war. After nearly fifty years of peace following the repulse of the Persian Invasions the city-states of Greece have formed themselves into two alliances: the Delian League, led by Athens, and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta. Tensions are rising between these two sides as the little city of Potidaea, nominally a member of the Delian League, rebels against Athens with the help of its neighbor Corinth, a member of the Peloponnesian League.
  
  You are the King of Plataea, a loyal ally of Athens, and when Athens begins fitting out an expedition to punish Potidaea you volunteer your small army of 1,000 Warriors to be part of the 3,000 strong force Athens has put together led by a General called Archestrautus. When you land you find the near Potidaea you find that city's army assembled under its leader Aristeus, among its 2,000 strong ranks a number of Corinthian soldiers on the right flank. You can either join the attack on the Corinthians on the right, Aristeus and his bodyguard in the center or the Potidaean soldiers on the left.
  
  > attack the Corinthians on the right
  You lead your Warriors in a charge against the Corinthian ranks but these soldiers from the larger city are well-trained and well-equipped and stop your charge cold. Fighting spear point to spear point your men hold back reluctant to press the attack but the battle soon ends with the Potidaean army slowly withdrawing backwards in good order. Archestrautus burns the lands around their city and content that he has done his work well he leads the expedition back to Athens.
  
  You have Killed 40 Enemies.
  You have Lost 60 Men.
  
  > Victory
  The little skirmish at Potidaea rapidly leads to a full-scale war between Athens and Sparta and their allies and Athens chooses to fight the war by launching naval expeditions to raid and destroy enemy cities. Six years after Potidaea plans to send Demosthenes, their most experienced General, with ten thousand men to destroy a Spartan force half that size led by their General Eurylochus who have seized a fort inside Athenian lands.
  
  Demosthenes has a bold strategy, forming his line next to a wood he intends to make his force look deliberately weak to trick the Spartans into attacking and so hides most of his army in a wood next to his right flank. Demosthenes himself takes position on the right flank leaving the other allied forces to make up his left flank. He tells you he would prefer if you put your men on his left flank but allows you to deploy your men where you prefer.
  
  > join most of the army hiding in the wood
  You join most of the army in the wood and watch as the Spartans advance on Demosthenes' army. The Spartans fall right into your ally's trap and Eurylochus leads the attack on Demosthenes line. The Spartans are taken completely by surprise as you and your men burst out of the woods behind them and immediately flee for their lives, you and your men are able to overtake and kill some of them, suffering very few casualties yourself. Having killed Eurylochus, defeated the Spartans and recaptured Olpae Demosthenes leads the expedition back to Athens.
  
  You have Killed 150 Enemies.
  You have Lost 20 Men.
  
  > Victory
  You were impressed by Demosthenes' strategy at Olpae and the following year when he requests you to join another expedition, this one 11,000 strong, you are glad to accept. Following an Athenian naval victory a few hundred Spartans have been left stranded on the island of Sphacteria, they are unwilling to surrender but Demosthenes plans to force them to surrender. His strategy is to use archers to bombard the Spartans, march foot soldiers behind to protect the archers and keep the rest of his army offshore as a threat.
  
  > join the Archers
  You join the archers and bombard the Spartans but the Spartans, firing from high ground and from behind the cover of rocks, give as good as they get and your men actually suffer more casualties than the handful you manage to inflict on the Spartans. It makes no difference because after a short time the Spartans recognize the hopelessness of their position and are forced to surrender to Demosthenes. Another expedition has ended in triumph.
  
  You have Killed 20 Enemies.
  You have Lost 30 Men.
  
  > Victory
  Following the string of Athenian victories you are happy to have your Warriors join another Athenian expedition, this one to capture the city of Delium from Thebes, which has entered the war on Sparta's side. This expedition is not led by Demosthenes but by a General called Hippocrates and consists of 15,000 men but for good reason, the Theban army of Pagondas is even slightly largely. Regardless you are feeling confident as your men sail towards Delium.
  
  The Thebans are deployed in an unusual position on a ridge before Delium: their right flank has been heavily reinforced into effectively a column while the rest of their line is thin. Hippocrates examines their position before deciding to attack in one standard line but with his best troops on his right flank in the hope he can break the Theban left before they break his own left: he gives you and your veterans permission to deploy where you choose.
  
  > join the right flank of the Athenian line
  The right flank led by you and Hippocrates initially advances well, driving back the weaker Theban left flank, unfortunately both the Theban column swiftly breaks through the Athenian left flank, forcing the center to collapse as well. Cavalry reinforcements attack Hippocrates men, killing the commander. You and your men are in the second rank of the line between Hippocrates and are able to make a successful withdrawal, killing any cavalry foolish enough to charge your ranks. Unfortunately this Athenian expedition has ended in defeat and you lead the expedition's survivors back to Athens.
  
  You have Killed 60 Enemies.
  You have Lost 40 Men.
  
  > Defeat
  After the unexpected defeat at Delium the enemies of Athens take heart and resume attacking cities loyal to them. You and your men join a garrison of 2,000 soldiers led by the Athenian General Cleon in the city of Amphipolis but Cleon panics when a larger Spartan army led by Brasidas approaches. Cleon decides to organize a retreat back to Athens at once and gives you a choice of where to place your men: in the vanguard, center or rearguard with Cleon.
  
  > join the Vanguard
  The retreat is a disaster.
  The Spartan army emerges unexpectedly from a forest the Athenian column is passing and charge the column before you even have a chance to turn and form ranks. Your Warriors, being at the head of the column, do better than most and are able to flee largely intact, though a number of your men are cut down and killed. Cleon and many of his men are killed and you are lucky to escape back to Athens with the remnants of the army.
  
  You have Killed 20 Enemies.
  You have Lost 150 Men.
  
  > Defeat
  If the repulse at Delium shook the confidence of Athens the disaster at Amphipolis has positively destroyed it, correspondingly the morale of the Spartans and their allies is at an all-time high. King Agis of Sparta leads an army of 9,000 men on the Athenian stronghold of Mantinea, a slightly smaller army led by an inexperienced General called Laches moves to block him. You join Laches' army but everywhere you see the Athenian soldiers are demoralized, seemingly expecting defeat in the coming battle. Laches makes no arrangements except to say he will fight with his best troops on the right flank.
  
  > join the Athenian right flank
  You join Laches on the right flank and when the Spartans charge your men meet them bravely and despite their reduced ranks and demoralized spirits they fight bravely. The Athenian left and center soon collapse and after Laches is killed the right flank gives way as well. You keep your men in order and lead your men on a careful retreat, your men have fought bravely but again Athens has lost the fight. You feel it might be time to seek terms.
  
  You have Killed 60 Enemies.
  You have Lost 70 Men.
  
  > Defeat
  You have fought bravely for the Athenians in six battles but after fourteen years you decide enough is enough and surrender to the Thebans before you and your Warriors are completely destroyed. Your surrender to the Thebans means you lose kingship of the city of Plataea, which your ancestors have ruled for a century, but the Thebans accept you as a General in their army. You have seen enough of fighting and you and your remaining men retire from the War.
  
  The fighting rages on, largely by sea, for the next fourteen years. The Athenians launch an expedition to Sicily led by Demosthenes to defeat Sparta's ally Syracuse but instead the entire expedition was trapped and captured and Demosthenes was executed. Finally, with its military resources exhausted, Athens admitted defeat in 404BC and Sparta became the dominant military power in Greece. The long war has weakened all the Greek city-states however and almost all are but shells of what they once were.
  
  As you turn to old age and watch your son grow from a boy into a soldier you begin to notice tensions growing between the victorious allies Sparta and Thebes...
  
  You have completed this Campaign!