....So we get less heroes and remember the heroes we do have to a lesser extent by relying on oral tradition?
Less hero culture, less knowledge of our history. Not good enough in my opinion. We didn't say that the mass graves of WW1 were good enough, we commemorated the generals and created tombs to remember the soldiers for their heroics at home.
How do we remember them less? Eusebios is the basis of the Eretrian equivalent of the Rocky series.
This is not the modern world, these men are fathers, brothers, friends to huge chunks of what is still a pretty small city, and their deeds and the tales of them take the place of much of modern media.
That's leaving aside that they'll be remembered anyway on the triumphal monuments we build to commemorate Eretrian victories and events.
Just feels like Hybris to me. Building miniature temples (and don't kid yourselves, that is how it is going to turn out, because our heroes graves will obviously have to be grander than the grave of the richest aristoi) for our heroes is disrespecting the gods. Though the virtuous heroes of Eretria are mighty indeed, they are only mortal and should be treated and remembered as such.
It is probably also going to be a drain on our money that we can ill afford right now. We've seen that our city is still lacking in many ways compared to the more established cities of Magna Graecia, not to mention the homeland.
And on top of that, i think this is another way we depart from usual greek norms and traditions. We are already in the uncanny valley of greekness, i don't want to add too much more to it, especially now that we are more and more involved with the going ons in the Greek world instead of having to focus all of our efforts on not getting murdered by Barbaroi.
How do we remember them less? Eusebios is the basis of the Eretrian equivalent of the Rocky series.
This is not the modern world, these men are fathers, brothers, friends to huge chunks of what is still a pretty small city, and their deeds and the tales of them take the place of much of modern media.
That's leaving aside that they'll be remembered anyway on the triumphal monuments we build to commemorate Eretrian victories and events.
What monuments? We're having the vote on creating memorial monuments right now. Yes memory will work, but memories and oral traditions blur and plays get lost as time moves on. In half a century after their death the truth and lessons we can learn from them will be obscured.
You're right. This isn't the modern world, and memories don't last and records don't keep as they do now.
It is probably also going to be a drain on our money that we can ill afford right now. We've seen that our city is still lacking in many ways compared to the more established cities of Magna Graecia, not to mention the homeland.
And on top of that, i think this is another way we depart from usual greek norms and traditions. We are already in the uncanny valley of greekness, i don't want to add too much more to it, especially now that we are more and more involved with the going ons in the Greek world instead of having to focus all of our efforts on not getting murdered by Barbaroi.
What monuments? We're having the vote on creating memorial monuments right now. Yes memory will work, but memories and oral traditions blur and plays get lost as time moves on. In half a century after their death the truth and lessons we can learn from them will be obscured.
You're right. This isn't the modern world, and memories don't last and records don't keep as they do now.
Read back a bit - we erect monumental steles and such as standard to commemorate such events as the victory at Rhegion. The Hero's Cemetery is an entirely different thing on top of that.
Read back a bit - we erect monumental steles and such as standard to commemorate such events as the victory at Rhegion. The Hero's Cemetery is an entirely different thing on top of that.
And the Steles are such a minor thing a lot of people forgot about them. This would be more prominent and would help capture the imagination and inspire people far more.
Besides, you can never have enough monuments, architecture is a beautiful thing, especially classical architecture.
And the Steles are such a minor thing a lot of people forgot about them. This would be more prominent and would help capture the imagination and inspire people far more.
No, but I do think the Greeks lost to Rome and fell for the Roman idea for a reason. And that we can't be purist Hellenite if we want to survive.
Look at our cavalry speciality, our Barbaroi relations, our methods of governance. We are not purely Greek. We are becoming something new. Something that will one day consume Southern Italy.
Eretrian isn't Greek. Eretria is something new, something more.
Cavalry speciality is not unknown among Greeks. The Tarentines, Thessalians, and Makedonians are all known for being good in cavalry. Gelo and Hiero built their empire from the saddles of their horses.
The Eretrians themselves, Old Eretria, was also famed for its cavalry, such that the Persians deployed theirs in Euboea ahead of the infantry, only to discover that the reputation had faded since the heyday of Eretrian power.
[X] Yes, he is a trusted and friendly face among the Metapontines. No other general is so supportive of Eretria, even if it for self-serving purposes.
[X] All have a place in Eretria, and we must not worship the dead. There cannot be any discrimination in the graves of the dead beyond the wealth of the individual.
[X] Kallias should be sent to the Sicilian Greek Cities to forge an alliance with them against Syrakousai, convincing them to enter the war in Sicily.
[X] Yes, he is a trusted and friendly face among the Metapontines. No other general is so supportive of Eretria, even if it for self-serving purposes.
[X] All have a place in Eretria, and we must not worship the dead. There cannot be any discrimination in the graves of the dead beyond the wealth of the individual.
[X] Kallias should be sent to the Sicilian Greek Cities to forge an alliance with them against Syrakousai, convincing them to enter the war in Sicily.
[X] Yes, he is a trusted and friendly face among the Metapontines. No other general is so supportive of Eretria, even if it for self-serving purposes.
[X] All have a place in Eretria, and we must not worship the dead. There cannot be any discrimination in the graves of the dead beyond the wealth of the individual.
[X] Kallias should be sent to the Sicilian Greek Cities to forge an alliance with them against Syrakousai, convincing them to enter the war in Sicily.
[X] Yes, he is a trusted and friendly face among the Metapontines. No other general is so supportive of Eretria, even if it for self-serving purposes.
[X] Heroes great and small have played a role in Eretria. We must not forget them by letting their graves be forgotten, and encourage future heroes to rise up.
[X] Kallias should be sent to the Sicilian Greek Cities to forge an alliance with them against Syrakousai, convincing them to enter the war in Sicily.
[X] Yes, he is a trusted and friendly face among the Metapontines. No other general is so supportive of Eretria, even if it for self-serving purposes.
[X] All have a place in Eretria, and we must not worship the dead. There cannot be any discrimination in the graves of the dead beyond the wealth of the individual.
[X] Kallias should be sent to the Sicilian Greek Cities to forge an alliance with them against Syrakousai, convincing them to enter the war in Sicily.
[X] Heroes great and small have played a role in Eretria. We must not forget them by letting their graves be forgotten, and encourage future heroes to rise up.
[X] All have a place in Eretria, and we must not worship the dead. There cannot be any discrimination in the graves of the dead beyond the wealth of the individual.
[X] Kallias should be sent to Lykai to investigate rumors of a Korinthian Conspiracy against Eretria Eskhata potentially involving the Tarentines, Liburni, and Dauni.
[X] User-Motion: Send Timaeus to aid Leontios, his former buisness partner, with investigating a Korinthian Conspiracy against Eretria Eskhata potentially involving the Tarentines, Liburni, and Dauni.
[X] User-Motion: Send Timaeus to aid Leontios, his former buisness partner, with investigating a Korinthian Conspiracy against Eretria Eskhata potentially involving the Tarentines, Liburni, and Dauni.
[X] Heroes great and small have played a role in Eretria. We must not forget them by letting their graves be forgotten, and encourage future heroes to rise up.
[X] All have a place in Eretria, and we must not worship the dead. There cannot be any discrimination in the graves of the dead beyond the wealth of the individual.
[X] Kallias should be sent to Lykai to investigate rumors of a Korinthian Conspiracy against Eretria Eskhata potentially involving the Tarentines, Liburni, and Dauni.
[X] User-Motion: Send Timaeus to aid Leontios, his former buisness partner, with investigating a Korinthian Conspiracy against Eretria Eskhata potentially involving the Tarentines, Liburni, and Dauni.
[X] User-Motion: Send Timaeus to aid Leontios, his former buisness partner, with investigating a Korinthian Conspiracy against Eretria Eskhata potentially involving the Tarentines, Liburni, and Dauni.
A/N: Before we begin I'd like to note some changes I've made to the map and mechanics. Regarding the mechanics, I have replaced "highest levy" with manpower reserve. Manpower reserve is a function of 15% of your population (the absolute maximum you can field) along with how much of your total raisable levy (a more reasonable sub 10% number) is not on the field. In this case, it's 20% of the total raisable levy combined with the 5% of reserve manpower. When you get casualties they are piled onto the reserve manpower. When the war is over, unless your casualties exceed your manpower, the casualties will disappear automatically. If they do..well. You don't want to be in that situation. You will stop getting reinforcements (as in EU4) and literally start running out of men.
You may also have noticed that the Peuketii tribute suddenly shot up from 6 to 10 talents. This is because I am finally counting the tribal Peuketii outside of the cities, mostly because I realized that existing numbers at Peuketii would not be able to achieve a maximum levy of 1,000 as I listed. So I added the missing population. The Peuketii are limited, however, from pulling more into a war because of their limited organizational capacity, so the 10% numbers Greek cities achieve is difficult for them.
Further, you may notice that the Epulian League and Peuketii levies are going up every turn. This is not an adjustment- it is natural population growth, because I increase their numbers incrementally every turn.
Finally, I've made some map changes. Some of them are IC, others are OOC. The change in the Phoenician Sicilian borders are OOC- at this point in time the Phoenicians had a more limited coastal presence around Motya, Drepanon was Elymian, and Mazar(a) was Selinuntian. I've also shifted around some towns in Sicily based on better archeological evidence, and added some. None of this is particularly important to you, though, so don't worry too much. The stuff that is important will go at the end of the update. Now, without further ado!
[X] Yes, he is a trusted and friendly face among the Metapontines. No other general is so supportive of Eretria, even if it for self-serving purposes.
Number of voters: 40
[X] Heroes great and small have played a role in Eretria. We must not forget them by letting their graves be forgotten, and encourage future heroes to rise up.
Number of voters: 30
[X] Kallias should be sent to the Sicilian Greek Cities to forge an alliance with them against Syrakousai, convincing them to enter the war in Sicily.
Number of voters: 30
War has its home in Italia and it is Ares' summer home. Dozens of tribes and cities vie for supremacy and power over a vast, rich land. But few are better at war than the Greeks, not because of any martial skill, but because of their battle arrays, their wit and guile, their organization and their arete. Indeed, the Greeks are great because of their competitive ethos that binds every man to the polis and pursues its betterment. So said Hypsenor, playwright and friend to Antipater, in the victory speech of the proposal to inter those considered heroes separately from other citizens. There had been long argument and many citizens had spoke well on it. There had even been the use of satire, effective as it was, to undercut the point of Obander on not building such a mass of graves. In the end the decision was made, and then the army went back on campaign.
Lykos had his future secured by Herodion, who spoke privately to the Metapontine proboulos about the essentiality of a friendly face to the alliance. The proboulos would later insist that Herodion personally threatened him, but he had nothing of the sort, even if intimidation had not been beyond him. Some feared that they had cost the alliance for the sake of short-term gain, but it would remain to be seen if this bad feeling would transform into a cessation of friendship. For the moment, Lykos was back in the reins of strategos, and had a new confidence to his step, perhaps owing to the renewed love he had with the Metapontine people after attributing much of the Battle of Rhegion to his own genius. A deep frustration to many Eretrians, to be sure, but something that was grudgingly accepted. Better a sycophant, they said, than a snake who would undercut the city and cost the lives of its citizens.
And lives would be cost in the coming days. The Lokrians and Krotonians took the allied Ionians by surprise by mustering before the Eretrians had arrived in the spring of 310 OL from home and defeating Rhegion and Metapontion in a pitched battle, even though it was at great cost to themselves. Although weakened, the Dorian Italiote cities were forces to be reckoned with, the two strongest cities of Italia aside from Taras, and they would not go easily into the night. However, they had failed to perform a killing blow on Rhegion and Metapontion, and both cities had been able to withdraw their forces from battle and await Eretria's arrival. Immediately, Krotone and Lokri attempted to attack Eretria on the road, but Herodion took his forces off it and along the hills, scouted forward by the Peuketii. They formed a common mass with Rhegion and Metapontion, and the combined army marched on Terina and Temesa, seeking to endanger the cities of both Krotone and Lokri Epixephyrii.
Lokri and Krotone could not have this, but attempted to disguise their arrival in a form of trickery, by attacking Metapontion from the sea and sending outriders northeast to make the allies assume they were marching on the city. The restive hoplites of Metapontion wanted to go home to defend their farms, but Herodion warned it was a trap. Still, the pressure was such, and the fear of separating from the Metapontines such, that the allies were forced to march towards Metapontion, wasting precious time to discover that the Krotonians and Lokrians were not there. Many Eretrians were growing tired of the Metapontine incompetence, as they called it, though few much remarked on the Eretrian hoplite failure in battle only a year prior, submerged as it was beneath the cavalry's victory. The news from Sicily remained bad, but at least static; Phaleron had failed to break the walls of Leontini and was entrenched for a long siege.
It was at this point that Herodion made the decision that they must move quickly to force a pitched battle with the Krotonians. So he identified a sacred grove of Krotone, and burnt it. The Metapontines were horrified, Mikythos of Rhegion intrigued. Pydamon justified the decision through a number of logics, most of them having to do with the loss of faith by the Gods in Krotone. Outraged, and with many of the priestesses guarding the grove imprisoned and held hostage along with Krotonian hostages that Herodion threatened to execute if they did not meet him on the field of battle, the Krotonians had been insulted into war. They met near the neutral city of Kaulonia, whose citizens watched the battle with trepidation and awe. Lokri joined them once again, and once again the battle proceeded with hard hoplite fighting. This time, however, there would be less hope for Krotone and Lokri. They had been weakened, Eretria had been hardened, and skirmishers were ranging to destroy their supply and redoubts. The battle was joined and Metapontion's forces, weary and tired, buckled. This time, however, the Ekdromoi broke the right flank of Krotone and began an indiscriminate slaughter outright, and Herodion's cavalry curled around the edges of the Krotonian lines, nearly closing the Lokrians and Krotonians in. However, the Krotonian strategos gathered the best men he could and fought his way out of the encirclement in a brutal melee, to the point where Herodion called the Eretrians back to allow the Lokrians and Krotonians to flee because he feared that a fight to the death would result in too many casualties he could not afford to lose.
The butcher's bill of the battle was high, and Eretrian casualties were higher than before. Although more experienced and hardened, the Eretrians now found the Krotonians and Lokrians, fearing a run down by Eretrian cavalry, far more vicious and vigorous, holding their lines more tightly and bravely than before for lack of an escape. The casualties to Metapontion were again high, such that many wondered why they had allowed Lykos to be strategos at all, even if the cost had not been his fault but simply because the Krotonians and Lokrians had targeted them as the weakest part. Again, Rhegion's hold of the right flank was heroic and strong, speaking well to the skills of the slave regent Mikythos, who had a guile and wit about him that Eretrians appreciated and suspected in equal measure.
Krotone and Lokri Epixephyrii retreated into their cities once more. It had become clear, moreover, that they could not afford another year of battles. All suspected that although they spoke brashly about their successful retreat and their messengers refused to accept peace, once the harvest season came both would sue for it. It was agreed among the allies that this was best for them, and so Eretria went home once more. Meanwhile, a certain Kallias had made his way to Sicily.
The cities of Sicily are rich and prosperous, but fractured. When Kallias arrived in Gela he found a city still piecing itself back together. Many citizens had come home from Syrakousai after years of deportations to the city by Gelo and Hiero. The city of Kamarina had been refounded by them and placed under their control to ensure their influence over that abandoned section of Sicily. Further west, Akragas had been under the rule of a tyrant for years and was recovering from the heavy weight of his corruption and infrastructure projects. All were democracies, but none were stable. What democracy meant was different in different cities. In Gela it trended towards a fuller democracy, but Akragas retained a number of notables who controlled the reins of power over the ekklesia. Not all were happy with that. Still, the cities were still in the process of development, and all were forming their governments differently. In the fullness of time, with hope, their dreams would be realized.
Kallias arrived at Gela first where he was treated as suspicion. They had dismissed several messengers from the Sikeliote League asking for help. They had also dismissed messages from Syrakousai. They wanted no part in this blood war between Ionians and Dorians. They were Dorian themselves, after all, but neither did they love the legacy of Gelo and Hiero. Kallias appealed to them instead on strategic terms. Although in his time in Eretria he spoke often of the common bonds of Ionians, he knew such a rhetoric would not work in Gela. Instead he spoke on matters of strategy. Syrakousai was the emblem of everything Gela detested, but it was also still strong. It was besieging Leontini and had an army numbering 15,000. Without Gelan support the coalition may fail, and with its failure would come a disastrous tale of revenge on all those who had wronged Syrakousai. Would Gela, the birthplace of Gelo, really be unscathed in such a rampage? It was not likely. Further, he deployed Sikel allies, in the form of the warlord Ducetius and his soldiers, against the Ionians, potentially empowering the interior natives to rise.
The Gelans listened carefully, and then told Kallias they would think on it. He thanked them for their prudence and ability to hear him out, and then proceeded onto Akragas. Here he was met with the same complaints and answered them the same way. The Agrigentines thanked him for his time, and then he was off to Selinous. There he was met with far more skepticism. Selinous was fabulously wealthy, with the proceeds of the west and the east flowing through its markets. but Kallias argued it had known the danger of Syrakousai and its mercenaries before, during the war of Carthage, and how greedily Hiero had eyed Selinous as a jewel to his crown. To destroy Syrakousai's power would be to undermine a potential competitor, and free Selinous' strategic vision to look to the west and the potential danger from Carthage, once the instability there had been resolved. The Selinuntians thanked him for his time, and he proceed back to Gela, where he received the support of that city, and the Agrigentines, and the Selinuntians.
For Kallias had not been idle. He was a diplomat in an age where such a term was unknown. He knew precisely what he was doing, and what he said in public was not all he did, even if it was the job of most diplomats in this time. Kallias instead worked hard behind the scenes. He had a talent for people, and identifying important people. In Gela, he found the popular and the charismatic, and convinced him to his cause through guile and suggestions of their own success. In Akragas, Kallias, who had long known nobility and aristocratic fashion despite being born a hoplite, blended into the symposia of the elites and took part in many parties and discussions, making himself known and fascinating the Agrigentines. In Selinous, he worked with the merchants and the traders, the mercurial aristocrats, those who had been born into wealth but knew how to use it. In each he appealed to self-interest and the value of intervention. In the end he was singularly successful, perhaps not just because of his unique ability but because few had expected Syrakousai to be so successful, and all feared a resurgence of its tyranny over the island.
And so Phaleron was forced to break his siege of Leontini off, for some 12,000 men from the cities of Selinous, Gela, and Akragas were potentially threatening his rear. On the backfoot, he nevertheless attempted to punish Gela by attacking the city's fields, something he was successful in, before the campaign season ended and his men were forced to roost near Syrakousai.
In the coming year, however, the tables would turn. There were some 12,000 men from the southern cities in the field now, some 6,000 from the northern cities, and almost 9,000 from their Italiote allies. Against them were 15,000 Syrakousai hardened mercenaries. All that was left was taking the battle across the straits and towards Syrakousai. Before that, however, events much closer to home would interrupt this rosy picture.
The rumors were already spinning out of control by the time they arrived at Eretria. King Jharatus of Gnatia was dead. His son was aligned to Daxtus. The Tarentines had become furious at the Messapii for an outrage. The outrage had involved men in baskets smuggled into the city and potentially attempting to open the gates. Or else kill some of the oligarchs. The city appointed a strategos, Polyboros, who had been feared for his time on the battlefield. War was declared on the Messapii. The Messapii had already lost a battle. Maybe two battles. Korinthos had over twenty ships in the Tarentine harbour and no one knew for what reason. Daxtus had been forced to reach to Hyria and the Tarentines were besieging Manduria. The proxenos of Metapontion sent back messages every few days, but they were hurried and confused. No one was sure what was happening.
However, when it came to Gnatia, it all became clearer when the younger son of King Jharatus arrived in Eretria, bloodied and with a few of his followers. He was called Ostaron, and he explained that his elder brother Arsenon had ejected him from the city as soon as his father died of old age. He explained that the elder brother was an irritable man who hated Eretria, in contrast to his father who had always been its fateful friend. He was unpopular with the people, but his claim was legitimate. However, Ostaron begged that Eretria intervene and save the city from his brother, because he feared that if Arsenon was allowed to consolidate his power there would be much slaughter, and Daxtus would be given a foothold only a few miles to the southeast of Eretria. He explained that Gnatia had always been a fair friend of Eretria, and still was, but a tyrant was ruling it. Eretria must help his forces, only a small complement would be enough, and then they would be able to attack Gnatia.
Then there was the proposition of the Peuketii. The fighting in Messapii lands, as it became clearer, was clearly going in Taras' favor. Everything was coming into place for them, and Daxtus was losing the support of some of the chiefs. Now was the time to seize the northern section of Messapii land. A broad swathe larger then Eretria's current holdings, the area to the northwest of Caelia had been Peuketii in former years but now was destitute and barren. Harpos explained that the Peuketii had fought long and hard for Eretria. They had been exceedingly loyal. Now was the time for them to be paid back. They were aware that Eretria did not want the land, but there were many old Peuketii ruins in the area, and as the population rebounded from years of war it needed living space to compensate for the loss of their former lands on the coast. Eretria should also, Harpos suggested, put Gnatia under their protection after it placed Ostaron on the throne. Of course, many were suspicious. Some even wondered if they should overthrow Arsenon at all. After all, Arsenon, despite refusing envoys, had not made himself outwardly anti-Eretrian. Still, his lack of communication and disinterest in reopening the alliance was enough for Drako. He suggested that they place Ostaron on the throne and make the city a formal tributary. Caution had to be thrown to the wind. The Peuketii had to be given the bone of the northwest of Messapii land, and it would push the Messapii border back, securing Eretria's flank even more. Most importantly, this would not be a formal breach of the peace with Daxtus because the land was hardly used anyways. He may see it as aggression, but few would care.
Others were more concerned with the idea of marching so blithely into this vast area of upland and taking it for the Peuketii. It would almost double their land area- much of it was not arable, to be sure- but it still rankled many, for potentially breaking an oath to the Gods so soon after they had concluded that the Gods had taken Antipater from them. However, the option was certainly attractive. With Taras and the Messapii fighting, with Gnatia in a state of flux, with the Korinthians clearly involved but not in a way that directly threatened Eretria, it seemed time for the city to claim its destiny by seizing this land. In time all of the barbaroi would be subjugated, after all. It was time to speed up the process. For the sake of nike and for the sake of the Peuketii, the city must move.
The old king of Gnatia, a long-time friend of Eretria, has died. His elder son has expelled the younger son and is known to be irritible and arbitrary, and he does not much like Eretria. The younger son has proposed that the city place him on the throne, whilst Harpos and Drako suggest that the city make it a tributary ally outright and seize the northern, empty Messapii lands for the sake of the Peuketii. How should the city respond to the Gnatian crisis?
[] Allow the alliance with Gnatia to lapse under Arsenon and accept his rule. We must not get entangled in this web while war still looms in Sicily and Italia.
[] Place Ostaron back on his throne, restoring the alliance with Gnatia.
[] Place Ostaron on the throne in exchange for him accepting tributary status.
[] Place Ostaron on the throne in exchange for him accepting tributary status and seize the whole of the Messapii northwest, placing it in the hands of the loyal Peuketii for safekeeping [Harpos will feel that he has been adequately rewarded for his efforts].
Upwards of 800 casualties for Lokri Epixephyrii and Krotone
News From Around Italy and Sicily
The city of Pyxus has been founded to the southwest of Lucani lands, near Skidros and Hyele, by Rhegion. Despite being at war, Mikythos sees Pyxus and its fishing grounds as an important way for Rhegion to export its influence around the Tyrrhenian sea. Many Ionians from Sicily have been resettled here, in part to encourage them not to return to Sicily for whatever reason (potentially because Rhegion sees the Sikeliotes as a long-term rival and do not want them to get too strong from the return of Ionian emigrants).
Decades of Hellene settlement have been made real by the completion of the fortress of Motyon in south Sicily by Akragas. Motyon extends much further into native lands than previous fortresses and represents how far inland the Greeks have been proceeding.
Kamarina has been refounded by the Gelans. Although originally an Ionian city, the Gelans have refounded it as Dorian and allowed refugees to come home, representing that they do not actually much care about the divide and would prefer simply to create a new redoubt to their south for the sake of their advantage.
The Sikel warlord Ducetius is causing great havoc among the Himerans and Sikeliotes with his lightning warfare and raids across their frontier. Supported by Syrakousai, he is a wily and able leader, and may soon become someone to look out for. Any Eretrian knows that Daxtus and Arpus started with far less, and now they controlled the whole of their tribes.
The Liburni are now ranging with ships in Frentani and Picentine lands, with much of the coast south of the northern Etruscans subject to their feared pentekontor raids. Trireme groups are less in evidence.
The Etruscan city of Fidenae has been retaken from the Romans. An outpost of the Etruscans on the east bank of the Tiber, the Romans had temporarily seized it but never made good on their capture, and the city has been taken back.
Tension between Athens and Sparta is rising. The proxenos of Eretria in Kerkyra suggests that Sparta may go to war with Athens within a year or two, before the city has a chance to finish its long walls that have been the cause of so much consternation between the two.
Herodion has once again won the seat of proboulos more or less unchallenged. Some other candidates went against him, but soon withdrew their candidacy. Drako promises that he will run during the next term, and indeed it is likely to be a heated one, for many are worried that Herodion's continued holding of the seat due to his meteoric respect and ability is turning into something deleterious to Eretrian democracy.
Population & Military
Eretria Eskhata - 311 OL
Population: 36,316 (3.25% growth per turn) Triremes: 10 Total Raisable Levy: 3,450 men Hoplites: 1,925 Men Sacred Ekdromoi: 500 Men Cavalry: 375 Men Kleos Exoria: 50 Men Psilloi: 600 Men Manpower Reserve: 2,155 (361 Casualties)
Eretrian Army (Camping near Rhegion for 311 Campaign)
Strategos: Herodion Total Forces: 2,760 Greeks, 500 Peuketii Hoplites: 1,540 Men Sacred Ekdromoi 400 Men Cavalry: 300 Men Kelos Exoria: 40 Men Psilloi: 480 Men Peuketii Skirmishers: 300 Men Peuketii Light Cavalry: 200 Men
Under Construction
Stone Wall [Tier III, Fortification]
--Sea Wall [Tier III, Fortification Extension]
--Wide Walls [Tier III Fortification Extension]
Will finish at end of 312 OL
Expenses: 137.0 Talents Navy Upkeep: 33.0 Talents Army Upkeep: 53.4 Talents (Army deployed for four months) Trade: 16 Talents Construction: 0 Talents Theater Subsidy: 10 Talents Sacred Treasury Contribution: 24.5 Talents Misc: 0 Talents
Sacred Treasury: 531.3 Talents (24.5 from annual tithe) Treasury at End Turn: 311.2 Talents
Trade
Imports
1 unit of Metals from Kymai (-10 talents per turn due to tax)
1 unit of Metals from Canosa (-6 talents per turn due to tax)
Exports
2 units of Smoked Anchovies to Taras (+20 talents a turn)
1 unit of Lumber to Greece (+10 talents a turn)
1 unit of Grain to Athens (+7 talents a turn)
Modifiers
Weights and Measures: 10% Trade Bonus Agora: 25% Trade Bonus
Dependencies
Epulian League Relations
Pylona: 135
Barletos: 150
Garnae: 120
Sipontion: 115 Total Tribute: 3.5 Talents Maximum Levy: 697 Men
Peuketii Relations
King Harpos of the Peuketii: Good Relations
Total Tribute: 10.8 Talents Maximum Levy: 1,063 Men
Alliances & Diplomacy
Gnatia: Full Alliance with the Messapii city of Gnatia, offered to Eretria after they were saved by Eusebios of the Fifty Masts from a pirate fleet. Maximum Levy: 350 Men
Kerkyra: In a defensive pact with Eretria after forcing Eretria to abandon its alliance with Taras. Maximum Levy: 2,000 Men, 70 Ships
Metapontion: In a mutual full alliance with Eretria Eskhata against the Dorian cities of Sicily and Italy Maximum Levy: 2,500 Men, 20 Ships
Messapii Confederacy: Under Oath of Peace with Eretria sworn on the Goddess Artemis.
Wars:
The Great Sicilian War (Eretria Eskhata, Metapontion, Rhegion, Himera, Sikeliote League, Gela, Akragas, Selinous versus Syrakousai, Krotone, Lokri Epixephyrii)
Also, MG does have a discord if you want to use it. It's absolutely non-essential, of course, but if you want to chat or ask me things in the background, you can use it. I also use it to flesh out ideas and field questions I can then clarify in thread.
