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:
  
  > 10: The First Rome-Carthage War (265-251BC) - HARD DIFFICULTY
  The year is 265BC and rising tensions between Carthage and Rome have finally led to conflict over Sicily. The disciplined and organized Roman army is superior to the brave but more disordered Carthaginian army but the Carthaginian navy is far superior to their Roman counterparts: this is a crossroads in history. Only one of the nations will be triumphant and begin its rise to glory while the other begins its slow slide to obscurity... are you ready to fight for Rome?
  
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  Rome has decided to go to war with Carthage over control of Sicily and you and your men join an expedition led by General Appius Cordex to Sicily to fight the army of the Carthaginian General Hanno. Cordex's plan is to use skirmishers to weaken the Carthaginians before using the Roman infantry and cavalry to attack their Carthaginian counterparts. As a trusted Roman officer you can deploy your men as you see fit.
  
  > join the Skirmishers
  You join the skirmishers who throw javelins and fire arrows to cut down many in the Carthaginian ranks before battle is even joined, the Carthaginians have very few skirmishers of their own which means your men suffer very few casualties as they cut down the Carthaginians throughout the battle. By the time the fighting ends in a Carthaginian retreat your men have played a decisive role in winning the victory.
  
  You have Killed 1000 Enemies.
  You have Lost 70 Men.
  
  > Victory
  Following the victory at Messana the Roman Army is reinforced, General Lucius Megellus placed at its head and it advances to besiege the Carthaginian city of Agrigentum. A very large Carthaginian army, some 50,000 strong, led by General Hanno marches to attack you. Megellus plans to send the Roman cavalry in a flanking march to attack the Carthaginians in the rear while also ordering his skirmishers to use fire arrows to try and panic the elephants in the Carthaginian ranks while the Roman infantry attacks the Carthaginian infantry.
  
  > join the Cavalry attacking the Carthaginians in the rear
  Your men join the cavalry in their flanking march to attack the Carthaginians in the rear. Before you can get into position you are detected and attacked by the Carthaginian cavalry but after a fierce skirmish they fall back and to your amazement the entire Carthaginian army withdraws too, their elephants panicked and fearful of being surrounded. You have won the battle and Agrigentum surrenders soon afterwards.
  
  You have Killed 40 Enemies.
  You have Lost 50 Men.
  
  > Victory
  Following a string of Roman victories in Sicily in 255BC Rome comes up with its most ambitious plan yet: following in the footsteps of the Sicilian King Agathocles fifty-five years before they decide to send an army led by Marcus Regulus to land in North Africa and attack the city of Carthage by land. You and your men join his large army which advances on Carthage opposed by a Carthaginian army led by the experienced mercenary Greek General Xanthippus.
  
  Regulus plans to put his best infantry, his veterans, on his left flank to break the Carthaginian right flank while his cavalry attack on his right flank to break the Carthaginian left flank which is held by numerically superior cavalry. Most of the Roman infantry will attack in the center where Xanthippus's infantry line is protected by a line of elephants. You must choose which part of the attack your men join.
  
  > join the veterans on the left flank
  You join the veterans attacking the left flank and initially make good progress against the Carthaginian infantry but somehow, shockingly, disaster overwhelms the rest of the battlefield. The Roman cavalry are massacred by hordes of enemy cavalry while an elephant charge disorders the Roman infantry, who are attacked simultaneously from the front and flank by the enemy cavalry and infantry. Recognizing the battle is lost you order your men to retreat but suffer heavy casualties as both Carthaginian infantry and cavalry attack you. By the time you return to your ships nearly half your men are dead.
  
  You have Killed 80 Enemies.
  You have Lost 400 Men.
  
  > Defeat
  The stunning defeat and massacre at the Battle of Tunis immediately convinces Rome that an invasion of the Carthaginian homeland is impossible and all subsequent military operations should be confined to the conquest of Sicily, which is practically complete by now. You and your men return to Sicily where you join the main Roman Army led by General Lucius Metellus, which is stationed in the city of Panormus.
  
  Seeking to follow up on their success at Tunis the Carthaginians send an army led by General Hasdrubal to capture Panormus. To defend the city Metellus plans to use his skirmishers first to weaken the Carthaginians before attacking with his main infantry while his heavily reinforced cavalry focus on breaking the Carthaginian left flank. You and your remaining men must choose where to fight.
  
  > join the Skirmishers
  You join the skirmishers before the city who rain down javelins and fire arrows on the advancing Carthaginian army, succeeding in panicking and stampeding their elephants before turning your arrows on the main Carthaginian infantry. As, once more, the enemy have few skirmishers your men suffer little in return and the Roman cavalry and infantry charge takes the Carthaginians by surprise and drives them into a retreat from the walls of Panormus.
  
  You have Killed 280 Enemies.
  You have Lost 20 Men.
  
  > Victory
  The victory at the Battle of Panormus decides the war in favor of the Romans: with Sicily firmly under Roman control the war at sea rages for another ten years before Carthage finally accepts the inevitable and comes to terms. The Roman victory over Carthage assures their supremacy as the dominant military power in the Mediterranean but the bloody slaughter at Tunis shows that Carthaginians, if properly led, can be a deadly foe. Rome will have many more struggles ahead in its quest for domination of the known world...
  
  You have completed this Campaign!
  
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