Apart from the name change you can also expect to see some diplomatic, unit, political party changes. It will allow you to play as Basileia Rhomaion, originally being Theme of Sicily. With Imperial forces engaged in the Balkans against the Bulgarian Empire and the Avars, and in Anatolia against the Abbasid Caliphate, the Thema Sikelias is all that stands in the way of a future where the the authority and legitimacy of the true King of Kings and Autocrat of the Romans is lost forever."Īs the title says, the Roman Empire is now playable in Campaign and Custom Battle.
With the backing of the Francian Karling Dynasty, they grow bolder and this informal union threatens to blossom into a unified state: one that will challenge Constantinople for the title of Roman Emperor.Īs Strategos of the Thema Sikelias you must not allow this to happen. In the former Imperial heartland, Rome itself works against you: the Papal State is the head of an informal Christian empire spanning northern Hispania, through Gaul and into Lombardy. To the north, the Lombards have all but conquered the Exarchate of Ravenna. In pushing the Arabs back into Africa, you will gain friends amongst the Visigothic dynasty that rules the Kingdom of Asturias and, when the time comes, should prove a strong ally against the Franks.Ĭontrol over the Apennine Peninsula has been wrestled from the Romans once again. The Umayyad Caliphate may be no more, but unshackled from the Arabian homeland, they will still prove to be powerful enemies. They, like you, are all that remains of that empire in the western Mediterranean. Having usurped control of Africa, they formed the vanguard of a Muslim offensive that, at it's greatest extent, reached Narbonensis in the east and Tours in the north. To the west, the Emirate of Cordoba controls much of the former Imperial province of Hispania. More shocking still, they had completely overthrown the Sassanian Empire and had laid siege to Constantinople itself. By the end of the 7th century, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia had fallen. This great conflict came to a head and, in the previous century, both empires, exhausted from the final Persian War, could do little to check the emergence of a new and explosive force: the Arabian Empire. While this bought great prestige to Justinian, it was not to last: Imperial resources were almost spent and the centralised infrastructure of Italia and Magna Graecia was all but destroyed, the Franks were able to fill the power vacuum in northern Europe and the Sassanian Empire to the east was almost unchecked, allowing them to grow in strength. As a consequence of these wars, Roman rule extended from Constantinople in the east to Hispania in the west and, once again, the Mediterranean Sea could be called Mare Nostrum.
#MAGNA GRAECIA TOTAL WAR ATTILA SERIES#
Two centuries ago, the dream of a unified Roman state was nearly achieved: Justinian and his general, Belisarius and to be joined by Narses, fought a series of wars first against the Sassanian Empire in Armenia and Mesopotamia, then the Vandalic Kingdom in Africa and finally against the Ostrogothic Kingdom on the Apennine Peninsula.
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