by CJR | Aug 11, 2017 | Premium Podcasts
Old Gonad himself, now 80 years old, broke his retirement and moved north into Asia Minor. So the big battle happened at Ipsus in Phrygia in Turkey. Each side had roughly 80,000 men. Ipsus was one of the largest battles of the Hellenistic period. There were four...
by CJR | Jul 28, 2017 | Premium Podcasts
Demetrius is in Athens, pissing people off, left right and center. But hey, he thinks he's a god, so whaddya going to do? Then, when he's about to invade Macedon, Cassander sues for peace, which Demetrius and Antigonus reject. Which, as it turns out, was a...
by CJR | Jul 20, 2017 | Premium Podcasts
To show how grateful they were to Ptolemy, the Rhodians created a new cult to worship him as a saviour god. Demetrius got a new title out of the campaign too – Poliorcetes “the Besieger”. To celebrate their victory, the Rhodians also built one of the seven...
by CJR | Jul 7, 2017 | Premium Podcasts
Antigonus and Demetrius attack Ptolemy in Egypt with 80,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry and 83 elephants marching by land from Syria, while 150 warships with another 40,000 men followed them by sea. When that doesn't go well, Demetrius decides to lay siege to the...
by CJR | Jun 17, 2017 | Premium Podcasts
Enough is never enough. If you sit still, your competition may sneak up on you and take you out. Any resource you don’t own, is one your competitor owns. Be that resource soldiers, labourers, mines, timber, shipyards, or cash. I’ve been playing AGE OF EMPIRES again...
