Summon your courage and assume leadership of one of 18 factions to stand up to Alexander’s war machine. Can you alone or with the help of others turn the Macedonian tide, or will you too succumb? Perhaps you’ll let your ego take over and as Alexander try to earn the title “The Great” by crushing other nations under your heel?
Maintaining balance between security and prosperity will prove more essential than ever. The game mirrors historical reality by allowing you to demobilize your military units, letting the soldiers go back to their ordinary lives. More citizens will boost the economy while relieving the burden on your treasury by no longer needing to support a large standing army. But you’ll still be able to call them back into service when required. Of course, if they’re left without regular training for too long, they’ll lose their skills, eventually becoming useless as you’ll no longer be able to mobilize them into ready-to-fight units.
Whichever nation you lead, the hard decisions of everyday life will be upon you soon enough. You can hardly survive without a strong standing army of trained, battle-hardened warriors, but can the state economy support a huge military budget?
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