Genre: Simulation, Strategy
Developer: Byzantine Games
Publisher: Slitherine Ltd.
Release Name: Field.of.Glory.II.Rise.of.Persia-SKIDROW
1 DVD
Description: This expansion extends Field of Glory
II back to 681 BC, and allows players to experience the last flowering
of chariot warfare in the ancient near-East. It chronicles the decline
and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the rise of the Median and
Babylonian Empires, and the conquest of these and the Lydian and
Egyptian Kingdoms by the Achaemenid Persians.
The Neo-Assyrian Empire, founded in the late 10th century BC, reached
its greatest extent at the end of the reign of Esarhaddon (681-669),
stretching from Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in the East to Cilicia (in
southern Turkey) in the north-west, and Lower (northern) Egypt in the
south-west.
Its last strong king was Ashurbanibal (669-627), though Egypt seceded
quietly during his reign. Following his death the situation rapidly
deteriorated, with a series of civil wars. In 626 Babylonia rose in
revolt. Between 616 and 609 the Assyrian Empire was destroyed by an
alliance of Medes and Babylonians. The Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar
II then took over most of the former Assyrian Empire, only Egypt
remaining independent. The Medes carved out a large empire in the north
and east, halted in the west only by the Lydian Kingdom in western Asia
Minor. By the mid 6th century BC, the fertile crescent was divided
between four powerful states, the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Median
Empire and the Kingdoms of Lydia and Egypt.
In 553 Cyrus II the Great, King of the small Persian Kingdom of
Anshan in the Persian Gulf, revolted against his overlord and
grandfather, the Median King Astyages, and took over the Median Empire,
which thus became the Achaemenid Persian Empire. He conquered Lydia in
546 and Babylon in 539. Egypt was conquered by his son Cambyses II in
525. This made the Achaemenid Persian Empire the largest the world had
yet known, stretching from the Bosporus to western India.
Summary of features:
- 12 new factions
- 32 new units
- 21 new army lists
- 6 new Epic Battles
- 35 new Quick Battles
- Expanded Custom Battles module.
- Expanded Sandbox Campaign module.
- 4 new historically-based campaigns.
- Mixed units with front-rank spearmen, back rank archers.
