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Stefan Härtel
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Eddie's best friend
Jul 1999
time: 06:12
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Alexander the Great's death occured on June 10th 323 BC in Babylon. His son wos born later, so he did not leave a successor.
The aristocrats and the army finally made a decision: The nominal king should be Arrhidaios, Alexander's mentally ill half-brother, as Philippus III, as well as his own son, the infant Alexander IV.
In reality, the empire was governed by Perdikkas, Antipatros and Krateros.
The satraps of the empire still had great influence: Antigonos Monophtalmos (the one-eyed) in Asia Minor, Ptolemaios in Egypt, and Lysimachos in Thracia.
In 321, Seleukos (later "Nikator") became satrap of Babylon, thus beginning a great career.
It is a very complicated story, and if one wants to make a scenario out of it, he'll have to decide the start (323? 322?) and the end (311? 281?)
I might make that some day, but until then, I've got a lot planned.
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Allard HS
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A scen about the time directly after Alexander's death can be fascinating, and is indeed one of the strengths of civ2 to create. The campaigns of Alexander himself is much harder to make fun in civ than this.
I recommend reading the Alexander trilogy by Mary Renault, for anyone who wants to know more about the person Alexander himself, and wants to spend a night reading instead of sleeping. The trilogy is "Fire from Heaven" (not sure about the name, might be mistaken; haven't read this one personally), "The Persian Boy" and "Funeral Games".
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Harlan Thompson started a scenario called "After Alexander" that incorporated your ideas and that of the Rome scenario in the original Civ2. The map is posted . . . somewhere, I think it used to be on Allard's old site
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My old site is still online at geocities, though it's terribly looking and the frontpage links to Apolyton. The maps section is still as it was about 2 years ago, including all the maps Harlan made then.
The link: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/1233/maps.htm
I'm pretty sure the maps by Harlan are also at other places, maybe at the Cradle of Civ (http://civ.cx), cause he recently made some of his map "extra-big".
As for my last words... Hoti to kratisto!
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Stefan Härtel
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Eddie's best friend
Jul 1999
time: 06:12
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Well, I am still not sure about that diadoch- thingy.
Right now, I'm in the middle of a Macedonian reading phase: I've read "The Macedonian" by Nicholas Guild (about Philippos II, Alexander's father), now I'm reading "Alexander" by Gisbert Haefs, which picks up pretty much exactly where the first one left off and completes with the story of Philippos (Alexander himself is 15 months old right now), then I'll read the sequel "Alexander in Asien" by the same author.
Maybe I'll make a new Alexander scenario (this time from a more Persian point of view), but really, look at my projects:
-Darius the Great version 2.2
-Shaibani: The rise of the Uzbeks
-Parsumash and Parsa
-Franco Prussian War
-Geography Dan's suggestion
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Follow the masses!
30,000 lemmings can't be wrong!
Our survival is based on continouus changing.
-Mao Tse-Tung
God might have created us as equals, but democracy and science pretty
much screwed that whole idea..
-Onepaul
Visit my Homepage at: http://members.xoom.com/SHaertel/Index.html
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21-05-2000 10:31
and I always wanted to buy one about China... expect to see that one (in a while, of course).
Maybe i'm too much history-pointed, huh?
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