This campaign details Philip II's conquest of the Greek mainland and ends with the Battle Of Issus under Alexander The Great. This campaign has a few historical inaccuracies, first and foremost, Philip II conquered Chalcidice before Greece proper, not the other way around as depicted in this campaign, but for the most part, this campaign maintains some respect for history. The first three missions are all quite easy, but the last mission has some problem solving aspects to it. They are all done on a detailed recreation of Greece.
This campaign is a top historical submission, with 4 great missions.
Playability: 4
The scenarios were a lot of fun to play, with varied objectives and different styles. It was a mix of fixed force and build & destroy, with defend-the-ally parts as well. The major problem is that the objectives just aren’t made clear enough, in the instructions, bitmap and map. I had to homerun the last mission because I didn’t know where the places in the instructions were.
Balance: 4
All the missions are fairly hard. I think giving the player 99999 of everything in the last mission was a bit silly. It was a very easy mission once you found the base, but since I couldn’t decipher the locations of key places, I couldn’t finish, and I imagine others would struggle too.
Creativity: 4
The campaign wasn’t just an Alexander romp, it was a story covering both Alexander and his father Phillip the second, and based mainly on his father. Creative victory conditions etc, but map design wasn’t too original, no tricks etc.
Map Design: 4
Good maps, a little eye candy, but lots of blank spaces. Geographically sound.
Story: 4
Once again, a four because there was a lack of clearer explanation about objectives that were a little vague. For example in the last mission, you had to bring people to landmarks and cities, but I couldn’t make out where they were. There was a bitmap but it was very poor. The text was the same colour as the border over it, and I couldn’t read it.
Overall: 4
Very good historical campaign, but seems a little untested/unpolished. Somewhere in between average and perfect.