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Greece

Bonuses

  • 2 Culture/City
  • -25% Settler Cost
  • Unlocks Olympics

Unique Units 1

Polearm
Developing Culture
STR6/8 HP20 MOVE2 SIGHT4
Cost
120/160 50/100100
Upkeep
−1/2−1−2/4
  • Formation +20% Strength next to another unit of the same type
  • Anti-Mounted II +50% Strength in melee vs Mounted
  • Pierce I A Pierce attack also damages the Tile behind the target. (+25% damage)

Shrines

Kingship Zeus

2 Civics, 1 Orders per adjacent Wonder

Underworld Hades

2 Culture, +50% Culture/adjacent Mountain, +100% Culture/adjacent Volcano

Water Poseidon

20 Money, +20% adjacent Nets, 2 Money / Water

Wisdom Athena

1 Science, 1 Civics/adjacent Courthouse

Families choose up to 3

Start

Starting Units
Scout Worker Warrior
Tech
  • Ironworking
  • Stonecutting
  • Drama

Dynasties & Leaders

  • Philip
    Commander Philip Commander age 39
    First ruler: Philip
    • Bold +20 Opinion (same trait) · +2 Courage
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  • Ptolemy
    Scholar Ptolemy Scholar age 48
    First ruler: Ptolemy
    • Educated +20 Opinion (same trait) · +2 Wisdom

    Ptolemy I Soter heads the Science-oriented Ptolemaic dynasty. Ptolemy can recruit Court Scholars and build the Shrine of Serapis.

  • Leonidas
    Hero Leonidas Hero age 31
    First ruler: Leonidas
    • Indomitable no mechanical effect
    • Fated to Die no mechanical effect

    Spartan King Leonidas is a uniquely powerful warrior who can greatly accelerate early expansion. He will however not live long and it will be up to his successors to secure their father's legacy.

  • Pericles
    Orator Pericles Orator age 34
    First ruler: Pericles
    • First Citizen no mechanical effect

    The Athenian statesman Pericles is a very versatile leader, a patron of arts as skilled at nation-building as he is at warfare. Whether Pericles focuses on governance or battlefield leaderships, he will excel at the task.

  • A
    Hero Alexander Hero age 20
    First ruler: Alexander Leader · founded by Philip
    • Bold +20 Opinion (same trait) · +2 Courage

    Young Alexander leads Greece shortly after his father's death. In addition to being a powerful warrior, Alexander is helped by people like the great philosopher Aristotle and others that will join the court. Alexander's mother, the scheming Queen Olympias, is uniquely capable politically and can link(MISSION_Influence_OLYMPIAS) other Characters on the Leader's behalf.

City names 48

  • Pella
  • Athens
  • Sparta
  • Corinth
  • Thebes
  • Argos
  • Eretria
  • Corcyra
  • Miletus
  • Syracuse
  • Ephesus
  • Cyrene
  • Halicarnassus
  • Pergamon
  • Byzantium
  • Thessalonike
  • Philippi
  • Amphipolis
  • Neapolis
  • Olynthus
  • Potidaea
  • Dion
  • Massalia
  • Larissa
  • Patras
  • Chalkis
  • Mytilene
  • Pylos
  • Gortyn
  • Croton
  • Rhegion
  • Alexandria
  • Ialysus
  • Lindos
  • Karystos
  • Heraclea
  • Lyctos
  • Apollonia
  • Phocaea
  • Megara
  • Cumae
  • Epidamnos
  • Attaleia
  • Nicodmedia
  • Nicaea
  • Trapezus
  • Antiocheia
  • Ambracia