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Unfortunately, you have overcompensated. The Persians conquered/vassalized Macedonia, Thessaly, Phocis, Boeotia and Attica of the Greek mainland and some of the Cyclades and most of the eastern and northern Aegean, but they never went south of Megara or conquered Crete and the Ionian Islands as...

So was Italy under the Fascist Party after the First World War?

Not long at all. At most, until Cyrus dies and a philhellene policy is abandoned by hus successor. Perhaps even before that, with Lysander's death. The Spartans would need to radically change their society to be able to rule Greece, but with the support of Cyrus they might have stability and...

Looks like we'll need to give the UAE a colour in recognition of their new mighty empire. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/uae-forces-occupy-sea-airports-yemen-socotra-180504181423573.html

Does she prefer "curvy"?

So not The Man in the High Castle and Fatherland?

Thanks, I appreciate it. As for my Draka TL, I've put off working on it for now. I've another reboot planned, since I went into the original reboot half-cocked. Momentum has dried up and I've been unproductive, unmotivated and unfocussed. This subject has restarted my creative juices and drive...

He was a close friend and ally of Lysander and a noted philhellene. That won him many friends among the Greeks; Xenophon was a jingoistic xenophobe who disliked Persians in general with his noted exceptions being Cyrus the Great and Cyrus the Younger. That the younger Cyrus shared an exclusive...

Chapter I: Woe to Medes and to Thebes The Problem with Winning: Politics and Faction in Hegemonic Sparta after the Attic Wars Lysander is greeted with acclaim and celebration after the destruction of the Athenian Fleet The start of the 93rd Olympiad saw the end of decades of destructive...

Really impressive stuff. Looking forward to the end result. You should post on the map thread, get some exposure. They like ambitious, interesting projects, even if they're WIP.

For some reason I'm reminded of the Warhammer Fantasy map.

This is the culmination of my fascination with the Ancient Greeks in general and Sparta in particular. Having dabbled with the idea of Sparta-as-Rome and a lasting empire in the past, it didn't much get off the ground due to my own ignorance of the subject and youthful immaturity. But the...

Preface: "Who are the Spartans?" So asked Cyrus the Great when he received a small embassy from a small city after he conquered the Lydian Empire. They spoke to him with terse threats to leave the Ionian cities of Asia well alone, lest he face the wrath of those who sent them: the Spartans. The...

I feel bad that this never got off the ground, it seems to have received some positive feedback. I haven't been in a good productive place in years though, so don't hold your breath for one. It's probably fourth or fifth on a list of projects that I'd want to finish off. Might just do it all...

I'm utterly loving all of this, though I can't for the life of me figure out what the light brown and dark brown represent on terraformed planets.