Alexander's ConquestsExpansion eras
336 BC–281 BC
Alexander's Conquests (336 BC–281 BC). You start as Phalangite and could rise all the way to Royal Bodyguard, if you survive. This era covers 22 historical battles.
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- Phalangite
- Half-file leader
- File leader
- Company commander
- Battalion commander
- General
- Royal Bodyguard
Historical battles
| Year | Battle | Est. casualties |
|---|---|---|
| 335 BC | Siege of ThebesThebes heard that Alexander was dead and rose in revolt. Alexander reached its walls in thirteen days. When the city fell, it was razed to the ground — all but the house of the poet Pindar. | ≈5% |
| 334 BC | Battle of the GranicusAlexander led the cavalry straight across the river. A Persian noble's axe had already split his helmet when Cleitus cut off the man's arm. | ≈10% |
| 334 BC | Siege of MiletusThe Persian fleet couldn't get into the harbor in time, and the rams broke the walls of Miletus. | ≈8% |
| 333 BC | Battle of IssusDarius III abandoned his chariot, his bow and his cloak and fled. His mother, wife and daughters were captured. Alexander treated them as royalty. | ≈12% |
| 332 BC | Siege of TyreTyre stood on an island offshore. Alexander spent seven months building a causeway of stone and timber out to it. | ≈8% |
| 332 BC | Siege of GazaAlexander took an arrow in the shoulder. When the city fell, its commander was tied behind a chariot and dragged around the walls. | ≈10% |
| 331 BC | Battle of GaugamelaDarius chose a flat plain and sent in his scythed chariots. The Macedonian infantry opened lanes for them, the chariots drove in, and the drivers were pulled down and speared one by one. | ≈15% |
| 330 BC | Battle of the Persian GateA Persian satrap blocked the army in a mountain pass. A shepherd led Alexander around by a hidden path, and they fell on the defenders from behind. | ≈15% |
| 329 BC | Battle of the JaxartesScythian horsemen jeered at them from the far bank. Alexander scattered them with catapults, then crossed and gave chase. | ≈4% |
| 327 BC | Siege of the Sogdian RockThe defenders laughed: "Not unless your soldiers have wings." Three hundred climbers scaled the cliff in the night. Thirty fell to their deaths. | ≈6% |
| 326 BC | Battle of the HydaspesKing Porus of India brought two hundred war elephants. The army crossed the river in secret on a stormy night. The elephants went mad and trampled men on both sides. | ≈7% |
| 325 BC | Siege of the Malli townAlexander was first up the wall. The ladder broke, he jumped down into the town alone, and an arrow went through his chest. Thinking he was dead, his soldiers killed everyone inside. | ≈8% |
| 321 BC | Battle of the Camel's FortThe regent Perdiccas invaded Egypt. Ptolemy stood on the wall himself and put out a war elephant's eyes with his spear. Perdiccas lost two thousand men drowned crossing the Nile and was murdered by his own officers that night. | ≈6% |
| 317 BC | Battle of ParaitaceneAntigonus and Eumenes fought a great battle that neither side won. | ≈8% |
| 316 BC | Battle of GabieneEumenes's Silver Shields won the battle, but Antigonus captured their families and their baggage. To get them back, the Silver Shields tied up their own commander and handed him over. | ≈6% |
| 312 BC | Battle of GazaPtolemy and Seleucus defeated Antigonus's son Demetrius at Gaza. | ≈8% |
| 311 BC | Battle of BabylonSeleucus returned to Babylon with only a thousand men, surprised Antigonus's commander by night, and took back his province. | ≈5% |
| 306 BC | Battle of SalamisDemetrius routed Ptolemy's fleet off Cyprus. Antigonus and Demetrius then proclaimed themselves kings. | ≈15% |
| 305 BC | Siege of RhodesDemetrius built a siege tower nine stories high and still couldn't take Rhodes. The Rhodians sold the siege engines he left behind and used the money to cast a colossus. | ≈8% |
| 301 BC | Battle of IpsusThe five hundred war elephants Seleucus had traded for in India held off Demetrius's cavalry. Eighty-one-year-old Antigonus kept waiting for his son to come back for him, and was killed by a javelin. | ≈15% |
| 295 BC | Battle for CyprusWhile Demetrius was busy in Greece, Ptolemy took Cyprus back. | ≈4% |
| 281 BC | Battle of CorupediumThe last two of Alexander's generals still alive — Seleucus, in his seventies, and Lysimachus, eighty — met on the plain of Lydia. Lysimachus was killed. | ≈6% |
Casualty rates are the game's estimates from historical sources, used to work out the chance of dying. Treat them as approximate.
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