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With this overwhelming infantry advantage, supported by some of the most powerful siege engines in the game, the Greeks are a force to be reckoned with. The Greek armies are based off the powerful phalanx formations known as hoplites and the fast mobile skirmishers, peltasts. However with rapid action to form alliances and grab rebel cities, a skilled player can migrate to a position of strength within just a few turns. Starting off spread across Sicily, southern Greece, Asia Minor and Rhodes, the Greeks are initially in a very weak position. The Greek Cities are a civilised nation in Rome: Total War.

To the north, the semi-civilized Dacians and other barbarians are surely no threat to civilized men, and Greeks have never bowed the knee to Eastern despots! The rising power of Rome has yet to break out of the confines of Italy – they face the Carthaginians as rivals. Alexander’s heirs still fight amongst themselves for the spoils of empire. Perhaps now is the time for the Greeks to be great again. The men of Greece still value their independence and civilization, and could still take this back to every corner of the world. The same blood that once defied Xerxes still runs in the veins of Athenians, Thebans, Spartans and the rest. But there could still be greatness within Greece. A loose confederation of city-states and petty kingdoms, held together by a need for mutual protection, is what remains. Now, however, the Greeks are reduced in power, and largely confined to their original homelands. The world is only the way it is because Greeks fought off the despots of Persia, and because Alexander led Greeks to the ends of the earth!

There are few corners of the known world that have not felt the tread of a Greek army, or been graced by the magnificence of Greek architecture. They are the fathers of democracy and reason, bringers of civilization and culture to the lands around the Mediterranean.