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- A scenario by Microprose,
revised by Allard H.S. Höfelt.
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- In the 50 years since the
conquests of Alexander the Great, the civilized world has become
virtually a Greek world. Alexander's premature death in 323 B.C.
provoked a series of wars among his generals for the control
of an empire that stretched from Southern Italy to India. Eventually
it was subdivided into three relatively stable kingdoms ruled
by the descendents of three of his generals, Seleucus' kingdom
in Asia, Ptolemy's kingdom in Africa, and Antigonus' kingdom
in Europe. They coexist harmoniously with the great mercantile
power, Carthage, based in northwestern Africa. The only serious
threats to peace springs from periodic invasions of the warlike
Celts of central Europe.
Recently, however, a small republic with the unassuming name
of Rome has emerged from several centuries of regional warfare
as the dominant power of the Italian peninsula. The stage is
now set for a stunning series of campaigns in which Rome, historically,
conquered, in turn, the western Greeks, Carthage, the Celts,
and, finally, the three Greek empires to become master of the
Western world.
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