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A sharp breeze surges across the Aegean. The dockyards of Athens thrum with activity, the air filled with the acrid smell of pitch, slathered across the hulls of a hundred waiting warships. In the mess halls of Sparta, wolf-eyed warriors slurp bitter black broth, their arms still aching from the day’s exercises. On the shores of the Hellespont, the Great King of Persia watches as a vast host assembles before him, drawn from a hundred different lands. The battle for Greece is about to begin.
Battle for Greece is the titular grand campaign in Chronicles: Battle for Greece. It covers several era-defining events between the Hellenic world and the Persian empire, starting with the accession of Darius I to the throne of Achaemenid Persia, the Ionian revolt which set the stage for further conflict, and the beginning of large-scale invasions of Greece by Persia (which includes the legendary tales of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles), and then moves on to the formation of Greek alliances, which devolves into the Peloponnesian War, as the Persians play a political game of chess to pit the Greek city-states against each other, finally resulting in the Spartan conquest of the ancient city of Athens.
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