Short story of the Neo-Babylonian empire

[Surt]

Year 18 of Bartabas the lackluster (T81)

As always small Persian armies raid the lands.
The armies are still years away.

Year 19 of Bartabas the lackluster (T82)

Bartabas orders sanitation build in fear of plagues.

Year 20 of Bartabas the lackluster (T83)

Bartabas frees some slaves.
Southern army is nearly wiped out by lack of supply. (1)

Year 21 of Bartabas the lackluster (T84)

Persia sieges Babylon with my 3rd army inside. Bartabas uses his knowledge of siegeing to counter it.

Year 22 of Bartabas the lackluster (T85)

Babylon falls again.
The last remaining army will take on the Persians at Babylon.

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Year 23 of Bartabas the lackluster (T86)

Babylon is free again, but the Persians slipped away.

Year 24 of Bartabas the lackluster (T87)

Building more cavalry to replenish losses.

Year 25 of Bartabas the lackluster (T88)

Big battle with the Persians, Persian general is better but the Babylonian troops are surprisingly better.
Persians retreat to Babylon but the army is pursuing.
The coffers are empty. (2)

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Notes:
(1) Never move more than 1 move away from a supply in case the enemy surrenders. This sucks supplies should come to units moving back to home, let the nearest friendly province pay for the upkeep.
(2) but at least we are over 2.0 in military expertise.

[Surt]

Year 1 of the rule of Mighty king Taxiles II (T89) (1)

Bartabas the lackluster is finally dead after 25 years of misrule.
Taxiles refuse to sells some metal, some bad people would buy it. And its better in negotiating peace.

Year 2 of the rule of Mighty king Taxiles II (T90)

The weakened Persian army runs away, the Babylonian follows as fast as possible.

Year 3 of the rule of Mighty king Taxiles II (T91)

The northern army move in on a massive Persian army.

Year 4 of the rule of Mighty king Taxiles II (T92)

Showdown at Mygdonia

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Looking bad for the Persians!
First round Babylon is defender (2-0), next round Persia (1-2) resulting in a near annihilation of the Persian army.


Notes:
(1) Diplomat and Bad military

[Surt]

Year 1 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T93) (organiser)

It is sad that Taxiles II died so suddenly but lets get organised now!
The army is ordered to attack the largest group of intruders.
A 2nd army is siegeing some Persian occupied region

Year 2 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T94)

The great Babylonian army undoes the Persian armies.
The great army moves north for the next attack.
A part of it stays and will join a minor army to clean up incursions.
New forces joins the north eastern army to clean up there.

Year 3 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T95)

The remaining occupied regions are cleared.
Peace is suggested to Persia for the 2 regions inside Babylonian provinces.

Year 4 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T96)

The north, east and south armies are ordered to attack into Persia.

Year 5 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T97)

Two Persian regions are occupied.

Year 6 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T98)

Persians refuse the offer, they get a new peace offer for the same but now also for Cilicia lost so long ago and Elam.
A further region is occupied.
Persian occupy Hemesa (Syria).

Year 7 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T99)

Persia accepts the peace immediately ...
Armies are send west.
Metal is sold as it looks like we wont pay off others anymore.

Year 8 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T100)

Armies continue west, not all roads are provincial yet.

Year 9 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T101)

The first army arrives, but needs to rest as its movement was miscalculated and so didn't get supply at a critical point during seatransport.
A fleet is build on the upper sea.

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[Surt]

Year 10 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T102)

Syllaeos opens the trade center at Tyre.

"Hell is when Babylonians do archery, Cilicians trade, Orientalis organise and Phoenicians makes Frankincense,
"Heaven is when the Babylonians organise things, the Phoenecians trade, the Cilicians do archery and the Orientalis makes Frankincense"
- Syllaeos

More metal is sold to unscrupulous traders. (1)

Year 11 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T103)

Syllaeos tells the Egyptians that they have our legacy and we want it back.

Year 12 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T104)

Syllaeos organises some religious festivals.
The Elamites rise up against their sworn ruler, an army is immediately hired to take care of it as the others are too far away.
Syllaeos organises some trials to stop further uprising.
The 3 western armies fan out to occupy as much possible in an organised way.

Year 13 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T105)

The main Egyptian army is in the desert of Arabia.
The 3 armies continues to gobble up regions.
The new eastern army consolidates before attacking the Elamites.
The economy balances on disaster.

Year 14 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T106)

Nothing new on the western front.
The eastern front tries to defeat the Elamites.

Year 15 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T107)

The strongest of the 3 western armies marches east to confront the Egyptian army, the 2 other continue the clean up.

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Notes:
(1) Metal and Manpower will be sold nearly everytime they come up from now on.

[Surt]

Year 16 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T108)

Mighty king Syllaeos organise reinforcements for the western desert force.
Bandits have invaded middle Egypt.
The Egyptian main army reverse marched to defeat a minimum Edom army.
Wise Syllaeos organised many cultural activities in the province of Syria. (1)

Year 17 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T109)

Bandits takes one more region in Egypt, the middle army will take them on.
The central army will try to take on the Egyptian army.
The small eastern army will garrison Babylon for now.
The fleet will cover the reinforcements going to the western desert army which is moving on Cyrenaica

Year 18 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T110)

The western desert force is tasked with reducing the Egyptian western regions.
The middle army will clean up southern Egypt.
The central army will continue to hunt the Egyptian army as it ran away again.
The eastern army move one region west to prepare for liberating the only Egyptian occupied region.
Having thus organised things wise King Syllaeos rests.


Year 19 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T111)

The central army is able to catch the Egyptian army at Nabatea.
The initial exchange seem equally divided with slight advantage to Babylon.

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But the quality as well as Zober son of Zober, managed to manoeuvred himself as being the defender ensured the success.
The eastern army move to free the regions held by the Egyptians, the Edomite free their own region.
The central army moves on the 3 regions held in Arabia Deserta.
A peace offer is send with all of previous legacy returned as well as Aegyptus to connect the two parts of the Babylonia holding.

Year 20 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T112)

The western desert force has has to countermarch as a small spearhead force rumoured to be led by some Rommelus takes Arsinoe behind their front. (2)
The lower sea fleet having moved to the Aelanticus Sinus near Egypt intercept the fleeing Egyptian army, sinking it all.

Year 21 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T113)

Egypt returns the statue of Sîn to Babylon as part of the peace agreement.
The western desert force tried to evacuate from Libya with as few losses as possible, the upper sea fleet will try to assist there.
The middle army will try to capture as many barbarian held regions as it can to max out the held Egyptian provinces/regions.
The central and eastern armies marches on Saba to secure the kingdoms back for the next conflict with Persia. The armies should be ready in 3 years.
A new fleet is build in the lower sea as the other patrols off Egypt.
A few reinforcements for the eastern army is also organised.
The war with Nubia is resolved as they become a client state of Saba.
Wise king Syllaeos organise an reorganisation of citizen rights.
King Syllaeos organise more cultural activities throughout the lands. (3)

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No significant states have been developed in the western reaches, Carthage seems the only candidate for western supremacy, Italy is a mess and the rest of the known tribes bicker constantly with no gain.

Notes:
(1) on province overview press culture then stop, move the money to culture.
(2)
(3) time to get the last progress token, been so close all of Syllaeos rule.

[Surt]

Year 22 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T114)

The world praise the rule of wise king Syllaeos (1)
The armies progress as previously organised.
Rich Syllaeos sets up relays for tired merchants.

Year 23 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T115)

Aegyptus Superios is organised as the 2nd province in Egypt.
Syllaeos considers taking Ammonia, but only one or two region is truly valuable.

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Myrrh and wild beasts is that enough to take 4 totally worthless desert provinces?
So only Ammon itself will be taken as we already have wild beasts in Thys.
The western forces have lost a lot of skirmisher and have to rest for a while and be reinforced.

Year 24 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T116)

The wise king Syllaeos orders sanitation build for the newly conquered regions.
The just king Syllaeos returns the two Nabatean provinces to Edom.
Mighty king Syllaeos sends the spear to Saba, the time for revenge is at hand.

Year 25 of the rule of Mighty king Syllaeos (T117)

Persia of course finds this is the right time to attack.
So the middle army will move on Saba.
The western force will move north and become the northern army.
The central army will move on Persia.
The eastern army will take on Saba at start.
The nation is reformed to an empire.
Rich emperor Syllaeos orders a paved road build in Phoenicia.

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Notes:
(1) finally progressing again.

[Surt]

Year 1 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T118) (1)

Apparently Syllaeos drow his chariot into the river when he got his new crown down over his eyes.
An Persian army crosses the boarder and ravages the lands.

Year 2 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T119)

The wise Emperor Arthetaurus frees some slaves to reduce the unrest in the emprie.
The Babylonian empire is the most dynamic empire in the world now and only Egypt and Persia has a better legacy, for a short time.
The Egyptian army is reinforced and redirected to the Persian front so only one army will fight the Sabans.
The wise emperor Arthetaurus orders a library build in Caesarea (2)

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The Persian army at Chaldea makes people in Babylon nervous, the nearest army is ordered to move closer to the city.

Year 3 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T120)

Surprising large Saban army surprises the Saba army.

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Largest defeat since the first Persian war.

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Saba surprisingly realise the revenge will be swift and offers to pay 600 gold in indemnitets as a peace offer, we accept.


Notes:
(1) Frugal and bad military will we never get a good leader, at least he is not totally counterproductive.
(2) how do you rename the cities? as this is a roman name

[Surt]

Year 4 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T121)

The main Persian army is making a beeline toward the capital as is the usual Persian strategy, our army will hunt it.
A large sea battle in the upper sea near Cilicia is barely won.

Year 5 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T122)

The emperor orders sanitation build for the lower classes.
The Persian army turns north followed by the Babylonia.

Year 6 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T123)

The northern army is ordered to go for Lydia.
The economy is ravaged, drastic measures are taken, Syria and Palmyrena are ordered to provide more gold.
A second sea battle in the upper sea near Cilicia is also barely won.
A few ships are build to bolster the upper sea fleet.
The Persian army that was marching north is lost out of sight.
The Babylonia main army moves along the boarder to catch raiders.

Year 7 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T124)

The emperor orders a Naumachia build in the capital.
The lost Persian army is moving in on Lydia where the army is ordered to storm the city before the Persians arrive.
Two Persian armies also operate inside Babylon and at least one is forming up in southern Persia.
A great observatory is build in much battled Mygdonia, some advisory think it risky so close to the Persian boarder.

Year 8 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T125)

After taking Lydia, the army is attacked by a few Persians.

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And duly retreats and then plan to evacuate.
A great academy is build in Babylon. (1)
A persian army is besieging the capital, but a Babylonian army is close behind.


Year 9 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T126)

The Persian army siegeing the capital moves north and get defeated by the southward moving army, retreats and get annihilated.
A new palace is ordered build in Tyre.
The army sieging the Persian region of Cittacene is defeated and retreats, its general dead, the army will recover at Babylon.

The Shah a Shah controls a few regions.

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Notes:
(1) Babylon is already at -18.52 decadency ...

[Surt]

Year 10 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T127)

The empire is now more stable.
Chaldea is once more under siege, The Babylonia army in Babylonia calls for all its reinforcements to gather at Babylonia.
The emperor decide that Comangene will be the target of this war.

Year 11 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T128)

Along with selling metal, manpower, the emperor orders more material to be bought for building.
An peace offer for the Comangene province is send to Persia.

Year 12 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T129)

An unescorted army tries to sail past the sentry fleet on the upper sea. The sentry fleet is sailing back and forth to catch blockade runners.

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Captured seamen says "You can not get us all".
18 regiments are sunk of 63.
A second engagement sinks 19 more for a light warship.
A large land battle is fought at Diacira, leaving 8 Persian regiments dead, with many wounded on both sides.
The citisen of Mygdonia sortied to kill a single regiment, but it was a trap, and a bigger Persian army wiped them out and too the city.
A explorer suggest an expedition to Equatoria or Singa to find new riches, sadly the lands are control by Nubia the Saban client state.

Year 13 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T130)

The emperor builds a Great Sanctuary in the capital.
Bandits roam in southern Arabia.
A plague befalls Cillicia.
4 Persian armies roam around in the land and 2 further sits on the boarder, but Babylonia armies are hunting them.

Year 14 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T131)

The emperor promote new health regulations
A lot of land changes hands but not much progress for each country.

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Year 15 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T132)

Persia accept our reasonable demands. Brave Melitene among them.
Armies are ordered to march on Egypt.
The emperor orders a feast to the gods as thanks for the victory over Persia.

Year 16 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T133)

Melitene promptly rises up in rebellion, the nearest army is redirected here.

Year 17 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T134)

The emperor releases a lot of law, the peasants must work harder, sell metal, sell slaves, develop infrastructure, reform citizen rights. (1)
Egypt is presented with a list of demands for return of more artefacts to Babylon, failure to do so means war.
A racing track is build in Tyre and the Capital to calm the people. (2)
A Castrum Cataphractae is build in Babylon. (3)
The rebel army is defeated in two battles and Melitene is put under siege, a storm of the city is ordered. Apparently there was no more movement to allow an assault this year.

Year 18 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T135)

The message to Egypt was apparently lost in a sand storm so we send it again this time just with a message that our armies will cross the boarders next year.
Melitene is stormed and the traitors executed, the army marches southwest.

Year 18 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T135)

A Naumachia is being build in Samaria, to the great enjoyment of the people, it will be done in 5 years if no bad Egyptians comes by.
The emperor is sad that no Cataphracts can be build in Babylon and the Heavy cavalry is still not experienced enough from the get go.

Year 19 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T136)

Two naval battles are fought off the Egyptian coast, that kind of victory will now be call after Sossius the admiral, a Sossian victory, the fleet beaches itself to make repairs. Replacement ships are ordered.

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Notes:
(1) This might cause us to go negative gold, which would be unfortunate. Only sell slaves here to finance the rest.
(2) The size of the empire and the mass of people can no longer be controlled by normal means.
(3) I think this has no effect on Babylon like the Elephant one.

[Surt]

Year 20 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T137)

Five battles won and 4 regions occupied as three Babylonian armies moves like lightning through Egypt.
The forth army will shortly join in.
The great emperor Arthetaurus orders a Royal Court build in Tyre so the justice might be delivered to the people. "The peoples loyalty my strength" (1)

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A prison is build in Iudea to hold all the new convicted miscreants. (1)
A group of raiders is observed in Ogdamus, they sill be dealt with if needed.

Year 21 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T138)

Another four battles and regions is won by the mighty Arthetaurus.
A battle on the Nile sees many of the navy's ships sunk, the fleet will retire to Tyre to get more reinforcements.
An Egyptian army makes a raid into southern Arabia.
An major harbour is ordered build in Idumeae to help in shipping out troops for a future expedition to the countries of the Reed sea.

Year 22 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T139)

"Babylon the glorious empire, ruled by the illustrius emperor Arthetaurus" - unknown historian.
Another 5 skirmishes, assaults and minor battles yields another 5 regions.
Now 4 armies are engage against the Egyptians, in 2 more years time the Egyptians should be reduced to negotiate a peace.
An Egyptian fleet is captured in a port in the Reed sea.
The army of Arabia starts hunting the Egyptian army that is running around raiding.
The southern pacification army moves up along the Reed sea to capture the last region of Egypt there.
The western desert force moves west along the upper sea.
And lastly the main army moves along the Nile delta.
The fleet tries another sweep past the Nile delta.

Year 23 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T140)

Egypt sends a peace offering, that is declined.
The economy is hurting so some regions are ordered to produce trinkets for turists and others build some economic buildings. Metal is sold, hopefully no bad people will buy it.
A preserved food store is build in Thebais to supply any army moving through or in one of the 7 neighbour regions.
An Egyptian counter attack in the central delta region frees a region, the army of the Reed sea, having just taken the last region there is ordered to marsh on them.
The raiders also take a region from both Egypt and Babylon, that will be revenged later.
The priests are payed to pray for the health of the emperor who has been suffering lately.


Year 24 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T141)

A plague breaks out in southern Arabia, no doubt the filthy Egyptians bought it along with their invasion.
Another Egyptian flotilla is captured in Cyrenaica.
Half the western force is split off to not get destroyed in an eventual Egyptian surrender.
We suggest the Egyptians hand over 1440 objects they have stolen from Babylon and 5 regions for peace.
In no way this offer is send because the peace with Persian is soon ending.

Year 25 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T142)

The raiding Egyptian plague spreaders are faced down and made as if it never existed.
And another 25th year ruler, celebrations are ordered.
Another Egyptian army is raiding into souther Egypt, an army is dispatched to fix that annoyance.
The last army in Egypt is ordered to clear up the problems with raider, taking the Ammon province.
The split off of the western desert force is ordered to assist in the subjugation of Ammon, lands near a village called El-Allamein.

The Egyptian situation.

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Notes:
(1) The 5% faction wide loyalty is very nice, even beats the -2 decadence. This is why you should build 6 of the same type of building so you get offered these really important buildings. Otherwise prison, mill, large mill etc. are the good loyalty buildings.

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Year 26 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T143)

Egypt accept our reasonable demands, making Babylon the most revered nation.
The armies are send to the Persia boarder to prepare for the Persia aggression.
One army stays in Egypt to subdue Ammon and keep the peace of the emperor.
Raiders are destroyed in Ammon province.
Bandits rise up in Cilicia, the local militia is ordred to deal with the problem.
Some archers are recruited.

Year 27 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T144)

Bandits roam the region of Hibe.
A massive deficit in the treasury is noted, army stops hiring and metal is sold to cover the deficit.

Year 28 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T145)

Once again the western desert force is decimated or rather halfed, and all survivors are nearly dead.

Year 29 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T146)

In a surprise move Saba attacks Babylon, the Persian was is postponed ...
A stable master is build in Thebais to upgrade our cavalry quality. (1)
Three armies are redirected to Saba, the western desert force is reinforcing and might be send too.

Year 30 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T147)

Aeas is ordered to upgrade its harbour to enable crossing the Reed sea faster.

Year 31 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T148)

A great mill is constructed in Tigris.
Ammon province is declared.
One Saban region is captured and two are sieged.

Year 32 of the rule of Mighty Emperor Arthetaurus (T149)

A golden age for Babylon.
3 regions of Saba are occupied, but no major battles yet, the advance on Saba itself should be decisive.
The emperor is in doubt if he should wipe Saba out, client state them or get their legacy.

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Notes:
(1) Stable master is good in the regional capital, less upkeep, with a foodstore, less upkeep and upgrade cavalry quality.

[Surt]

So what should the emperor do here if he want to win before time?

[Gray Fox]

How about some data? Legacy, CDR, Persia's stats, your favorite color, some of this would be necessary to know before I could offer a response.

[Surt]

How about some data? Legacy, CDR, Persia's stats, your favorite color, some of this would be necessary to know before I could offer a response.

We lead in legacy with around 10000 the the next two Persia and Egypt have around 8000, number 3-4 in CDR, Persia will get beaten from now on in every war, Babylonian orange. Basically the game is won now I just need to finished it in the fastest way.

There are the following options

* conquer Saba, estimated gain 0.5 legacy per province (10), in 65 turn or around 325 legacy, more decadency which might not be a problem. Don't have to worry about them again.
* client Saba, gives zero legacy and a little gold. No more trouble.
* get all their 1500 legacy and have another war of annihilation in 20 turns, cost around 10 turns for the armies to move there, take it and reposition.

[Gray Fox]

Finish off Saba for the Legacy. Use diplomacy to gut Egypt and Persia with transactions for their objectives. Good luck!

[Surt]

Year one of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Bythias (T150) (1)

"Finally the old fool Arthetaurus died, his stupid pacification of Ammon is on the last act,
the worthless lands will only bring grief.
The Saban armies are defeated out of hand and the cities stormed with little resistance.
An army lands in Nubia to hasten the destruction of Saba by attacking its client state."

- Bythias I, Emperor of Babylon.

Year 2 of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Bythias (T151)

The Nubian army is ordered to not strafe from the coast as an Saban surrender would wipe it out if it does.
The capital Saba surrenders despite being garrisoned by the citizen and also a large army.
The two southern most armies play pingpong with the last Saban army which retreats between them.
An uprising of Arabs in north Saba will be dealt with later.
A peace for all their stuff and a coastal province is sent to Saba.

Year 1 of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Zenodores (T152) (2)

Bythias woke up dead this morning.
The 3rd army moves to occupy the last region of Saba, so that only the two cities of the south are under siege.
A great engineering school is build in Lakhmides west of Babylon.
Still waiting for the Saban responce, maybe Bythias insulted them?
The Academy of Tyre is being build.

Year 2 of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Zenodores (T153)

The Arabs of Arga declares a new nation Arabia, unfortunately we will have to crush them like the barbarians they are.
Himjar, the 2nd to last Saban city is ordered to be stormed, well march in through the already toppled walls.
Bandits sneak our of the mountains of Cilicia again, hopefully the local militia can crush them.
More bandits rides out of the desert to Egypt, the local army must deal with them.
The Nubian expeditions moves back to Sinai

Year 3 of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Zenodores (T154)

The Egyptian "bandits" were apparently Egyptian scouts.
The perfidious Egyptians makes an sneak attack.
The army in Egypt will immidiately counter attack.
The army that just took the next to last city in Saba will go to Egypt immediately.
The army who fought the arabians will continue north and attack the last regions Egypt hold on the east Reed Sea.
The Nubian army needs time to restore fighting ability and some reinforcements.
The Sabans are asked to hand over all their temple statues for peace.

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Notes:
(1) Bad diplomat.
(2) Pacifier, Good administrator, Bad military, age 46.

[Surt]

Year 4 of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Zenodores (T155)

A small Egyptian army lay siege to Aegyptus. The army that will take on them is still resting and reinforcing.
A second Egyptian army is gathering at the western boarder, no army is send against them yet.
The upper sea fleet patrols along the cost of Cyrenaica.
There are bandits in Cilicia again, the locals are ordered to take care of it for now, but a longer term solution is needed.

Year 5 of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Zenodores (T156)

The 2nd Egyptian army has taken Asbytia.
Saba finally surrenders, we will be back! (1)
An Egyptian fleet has slipped by our patrol and is raiding Sinus Phillisticus, the merchants implores his majesty to take care of it. The upper sea fleet will hunt it.
Some more ships are layed down to make a second upper sea fleet.
The Lower sea fleet sails to the coast of Saba to try to supply the Saban army.
Three Egyptian armies sieges the middle Egyptian land.
I. Army in Saba army has to go east to avoid getting destroyed by supply problems.
II. Army marches on Aegyptus via Troglydytes.
III. Army is being called up in Babylon, so that we have an patrol army in the east.
IV. Army marches to clean up the south Egyptian lands.
V. Army moves in the general direction of west Egypt after having taken the last lands of Egypt in Arabia.
VI. Army marches on Cyrenaica.
A Summer palace is ordered in Delta, the Emperor wants to take his take his bath on a sandy shore.

Year 6 of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Zenodores (T157)

Cilician fleet will patrol around Cyprus.
Upper sea fleet
I. Army moves to Elam to deter Persia.
IV. Army will finish south Egypt then march on the lost region in Ammon.
V. Army is redirected to middle Egypt to take their lands there.

Year 7 of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Zenodores (T158)

Under the wise rule of Emperor Zenodores a golden age of Babylonian culture.
To celebrate the golden age some deserving slaves are freed, tho no Persians as they are not deserving.
Some food stores and supply depots are created at border areas to supply the armies marching through.
The White Bridge is build in Gallilea to shorten the Emperors travel betwen the palace and library, the merchants are happy too.
A pleasure district is build in Babylon, some muttering from the Hebrew quaters about the hore of Babylon is heard.
Road of all kinds are build in the new lands.
Watch towers and training grounds are build all over to increase the military ability (2)

Lower sea fleet resumes its station off the coast of Uruk, to keep the Persians honest.
I. Army moves to the depot in Tigris.
III. Army is ordered to take care of the bandit problem in Cilicia once and for all.

Year 8 of the rule of the Mighty Emperor Zenodores (T159)

The Cyprus fleet is nearly wiped out but gets a Sossius victory, some replacements are build. No competent admiral is found to command it.

Chaldea and Thebais builds a siege workshop as a start of the military school planned there.
A coastal fortress is build in Characene to prepare for a military school there.
Tanis builds a stable in the hope someday we get a military school there.

II. Army moves to clean up the coast of smaller armies and regions left behind as VI. army passed by.
III. Army is reinforced by some Camels to be able to catch the bandits.
IV. Army is ordered to attack the Egyptian army rampaging through Ammon and go directly for it.
An Egyptian army slips between our armies and attack Delta hoping to stop the building of the Emperors summer palace? V. Army is ordered to pursuit them.

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Notes:
(1) Costing us 2 objectives for 1500 legacy, we will be back later.
(2) I also need more provinces with military schools to get better generals.
(3) Gaol for the Egyptian campaign is go recover a lot of legacy and objective regions, region in Libya as base for the next attack.

[Surt]

So what is your advice to the Emperor for the end game builds given

* new underdeveloped regions will not contribute much to legacy as their culture will first have to be build up.
* some regions are now growing into very large cities 30+ pop
* the empires size demand some loyalty buildings earlier.

[Gray Fox]

You posted that "Persia will get beaten from now on in every war". Since you have humbled Egypt nicely, then do the same to Persia. Good luck!