Sounds good. Reverse the numbers and you have a deal. Yeah, that is great, but which empire? The Imperial Guard begins cavalry training. 2,000 men are allocated to this from the infantry ranks. 40 Penance-class warships are finished, armed, and crewed. Loading with gold begins. 80 Penance-class warships are placed under construction.
You know, the blockade has pretty much dissipated with the Carthaginian navy going back to Carthage. And the way Athens is designed (with the port connected to the city), they could theoretically hold out forever by importing food. There would certainly be a plague, but it would be from the cramped living conditions of Athenian refugees and such, not the corpses. Even then though, their military should be relatively unfettered by those problems. Athens itself could hold out for an indefinite length of time unless their port is cut or an assault on the walls is successful.
Yeah, they tried that before when warring with Sparta. Didn't end so well and poor Socrates suffered for it.
After 6 month of bombarding Athens with siege equipment, and dead bodies Sparta decided to assault the city. Leonidas asks the Carthaginian general Maharbaal how should we go about doing it? ( I added you to battle conversation @Anwrise888
Tyre advise the Athenians either try to make a break for it with their navy, or burn the ships. Or better, ram burning ships into the blockade.
The Scythian navy has been building up for around a year and a half now, plus some ships bought from the Netherlands. I'd say we have about 55 boats now. 45 built and 10 bought. The navy will be pulled from Crimea and instead based in the other coastal province because it's closer to the homeland and shit. In retrospect the Crimean outpost is pretty much useless. But it's still mine.
Historically the peloponesian league had almost no siege equipment. What took Athens was the black death. I haven't met anybody supplying Athens with food. Tyre and Levantine's declared neutrality and stop supplying. Who would supply Athens with food? We do have siege equipment. Not only that but it has been 6 months.
Yeah. I know. He mentioned disease in his post, but skated over it like it was nothing. Its something. LOL. Your post is like: Who would supply Athens food? Who would do such a terrible thing?!
The State of the Scythian Military: Army: 6,000 Slave Soldiers left over from the Barbarian War (yes, I didn't forget them) 12,000 Horse Archers 12,000 Melee Horsemen 3,000 Heavy Horsemen Total - 33,000 Soldiers Navy: 45 Scythian Triremes 10 Frisian Longboats Total - 55 Ships Also, as a note since Moscow isn't a threat (I mean they aren't doing anything) I'm just going to station my entire military and navy at that one province on the coast given that's the only possible way someone could threaten the Scythian Kingdom. Edit: I'd assume Athens would be able to get food from private merchants. They're desperate and I'm sure traders would be eager to make a fortune on what otherwise would only garner a small margin gain.
South of Benghazi, the friendly local King talks with my governor through his Greek-speaking courtier. His people have a small city built from local stone, simple yet able to stand up to blistering desert winds. He is interested only in trade, which seems unusual for a local man of this wild land. The reason for this soon becomes clear when a number of tribesman walk in, carrying large ceramic pots. These pots contain salt, in amounts that would make the richest of Dalmatian nobles queasy with excitement. The local Kings tells me of the mines in this area, only recently discovered, and asks us whether we would like to trade. The governor, being a shrewd man, offers weapons to the King, and fine bronze ornaments. The locals have never seen such craftsmanship and offer me several pots of salt for them. Struggling to contain his elation at such a ridiculous bargain for the Dalmatians, the governor promises he will come back to the city with more treasures soon, and to pick up some more salt from the mines. (OOC: Again, this is all accurate, there are salt mines around Benghazi)
Did you just come up with that, or did you state that they were under training/construction at some point?
I guess I can't be absent for 7 hours. I guess I am no longer Rome, but Babylon expands for the Mediterrean.
If you mean the ships, I specifically said so. If you mean the army then it depends. The slaves I did specifically say, as well as around 7,000 of the horse archers. For the rest though I tried to be reasonable when I made up the numbers, if there's anything that's a bit extreme I'm open to suggestions. Scythia is a relatively large Kingdom though.
Actually it was because the Athenians lost a ton of shit trying to take Sicily and the Persians gave the Spartans enough ships to take the Athenians by surprise and destroy the Athenian fleet. Without their mighty navy Sparta cut off the food imports and Athens was forced to surrender. The plague was bad, but the only major thing it did was kill the Athenian Politician who had developed their strategy and was the most staunch supporter of it. Without him the Athenians made their attempt on Sicily and failed for various reasons, etc. etc. until the Athenians lost their naval advantage and lost the war. Anyway, there is no blockade. The Carthaginian navy left so we can assume the Athenian navy stepped in to take control of the area and reopen food imports. With that the Athenian defenses should be relatively strong. Though no doubt the battering from the siege machines did a number on the Athenian walls.
