If you take out the Corinthians and the Tiryns (the red guys to the south) then you have two provinces, but are then almost completely hemmed in. Red is your enemy to the south and the yellow is one of the neutrals.

Green are your allies, hemming you in left and right. I say precarious, although “confusing” also applies. You start in a fairly precarious position, and the game help is not helpful (which I’ll discuss that a bit more later). However, I am not convinced this evaluation is correct. Why him? Well, the game says this is the “easy” start, so it made sense to start with him. In my first 3 playthroughs, I was Agamemnon. I’m starting with this, because it is in my opinion the single worst thing about the game. I get my resource engine going and start to have fun, and then notice that Hector must have been training everyone else, because I then get enemy armies marching past 3 or 4 other cities, belonging to people they are at war with, and homing in on an undefended settlement, and then I notice this happens as soon as I move my main stack out of my homeland.Īnd so, we come to the first Achilles Heel, or ἁμαρτία (hamartia, meaning weakness, flaw) if you will.

This time, Hector stays very far away, and armed with considerably more wisdom, I pay more attention to what my agents do, specifically my Envoys, who reduce the upkeep of my armies, which is an incredibly powerful ability that the game “help” never explains, despite its tedious loquacity (I had to turn all help messages off because I was getting swamped with useless messages.) Thankfully, I’ve been keeping up on my sacrifices to Soteria, and so I escape miraculously unharmed, and Zeus intervenes to let me have another go (The new game button is godly!) Despite these similarities, Hector went entirely off-script, and invaded from half the map away, with suspicious accuracy and timing.

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