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Alexander ' s gameplay shares several similarities to that of the Cossacks series, [1] with elements of the Age of Empires series and Age of Mythology. The game's map covers the area from Macedonia to India. [2] In a player's first playthrough, they can only play as Alexander, but after beating the game players can play campaigns as Egypt ...
The Great Battles of Alexander is a computer wargame. [1] [2] It recreates the historical military exploits of Alexander the Great via turn-based gameplay.[3] [1] The game takes place on a hex map, and simulates combat at the tactical level; the player navigates an army of predetermined units on discrete battlefields, in a manner that PC PowerPlay compared to chess. [3]
It begins with Alexander's ascension to the Macedonian throne in 336 BC and lasts for 100 turns. The game is much the same as the original Rome: Total War, but with fewer factions, different units, and a different map. The expansion was released in 2006 for Microsoft Windows. The macOS version of Rome: Total War: Alexander was released on 27 ...
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The Great Battles is a computer wargame series based on the Great Battles of History board game series by GMT Games. The three titles in the series—The Great Battles of Alexander, The Great Battles of Hannibal and The Great Battles of Caesar—were developed by Erudite Software and published by Interactive Magic. [1]
Alexander the Great is a board wargame first published by Guidon Games in 1971 that simulates the Battle of Arbela in 331 BCE, also known as the Battle of Gaugamela. A revised edition was published by Avalon Hill in 1974. Both editions of the game were notable for having what one critic described as "one of the ugliest maps ever to curse a war ...
Philostratus the Elder in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana writes that in the army of Porus, there was an elephant who fought bravely against Alexander's army, and Alexander dedicated it to the Helios (Sun) and named it Ajax because he thought that such a great animal deserved a great name. The elephant had gold rings around its tusks and an ...