Description
If the fated time is at hand when the rule of the Persians must cease, and if
our downfall is a debt we must pay to the envy of the gods and the laws of
change, grant that no other man but Alexander shall sit upon the throne of
Cyrus.
Plutarch Darius on Alexander
The Rise and Fall of Persia: Cyrus to Alexander is the first source book for Clash of
Empires. This book provides gamers with all the information that they need to fight
battles from Classical Antiquity, from the rise of the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great,
through the destructive Peloponnesian Wars where Greek fought Greeks and finally the
demise of the Persians at the hands of Alexander the Great. The book is split into three
parts each focussing on a specific time period and series of conflicts and combatants,
covering 28 army lists plus variants.
The Rise of Persia
This details the fall of Babylon and the Lydians and the rise of the Persian Empire under
Cyrus the Great and features a historical overview of the period and 10 army lists plus
variants including: Lydian Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Archaic Greek, Early
Achaemenid Persia, Saitic Egyptian, Cyrenaian Greek, Libyan, Early Macedonian, Skythian
and Thracian.
Clash of East and West
The second part charts the Greek and Persian Wars throughout the Mediterranean. Army
lists featured in the section include: Achaemenid Persian Empire, Early Hoplite Greek, Early
Spartan, Early Carthaginian, Later Hoplite Greek (including Athenian, Argive, Theban and
Phokian), Later Spartan, Syracusan/Siciliot, Elymian/Sikel/Sicanian, Thessalian and
Illyrian.
The Fall of Persia
The final part of the book charts the rise of Macedon and Alexander the Great and his
destruction of the Persian Empire and expansion of the Macedonian Empire. It features the
following army lists: Rise of Macedon, Later Achaemenid Persian, Alexandrian Macedonian
and Ancient Indian.
128 page full colour hardback rulebook
