Empire Time

TIME for another game of Philip Sabin's Empire, which covers 200 years of warfare around the Mediterranean, featuring four main peoples: Carthaginians, Romans, Macedonians and Persians/Parthians.

The players are again myself, my regular wargaming opponent ('Reg'), security consultant Richard Johnson, and Andy, a serving officer in Britain's armed forces.

We have played Empire eight previous times, with each of us having each of the people twice.  

Here are the standings (four points for a win, three for coming second, etc).

ANDY
Game One: 4pts (Macedonians)
Game Two: 3.5pts (Persians/Parthians)
Game Three: 3pts (Romans)
Game Four: 2.5pts (Carthaginians)

Game Five: 2pts (Romans)

Game Six: 4pts (Persians)

Game Seven: 1pt (Macedonians)

Game Eight: 3pts (Carthaginians)
Total: 23pts

ME

Game One: 3pts (Carthaginians)
Game Two: 3.5pts (Romans)
Game Three: 4pts (Persians)
Game Four: 1pt (Macedonians)

Game Five: 4pts (Persians/Parthians)

Game Six: 2pts (Carthaginians)

Game Seven: 3pts (Romans)

Game Eight: 1pt (Macedonians)
Total: 21.5pts

REG

Game One: 1pt (Persians/Parthians)
Game Two: 2pts (Carthaginians)
Game Three: 1pt (Macedonians)
Game Four: 4pts (Romans)

Game Five: 3pts (Carthaginians)

Game Six: 1pt (Macedonians)

Game Seven: 4pts (Persians)

Game Eight: 2pts (Romans)
Total: 18pts

RICHARD JOHNSON
Game One: 2pts (Romans)
Game Two: 1pt (Macedonians)
Game Three: 2pts (Carthaginians)
Game Four: 2.5pts (Persians/Parthians)

Game Five: 1pt (Macedonians)

Game Six: 3pts (Romans)

Game Seven: 2pts (Carthaginians)

Game Eight: 4pts (Persians/Parthians)
Total: 17.5pts

SCORES BY PEOPLES
Persians/Parthians: 27pts

Romans:22.5pts
Carthaginians: 19.5pts
Macedonians: 11pts

Since we have all had each of the peoples twice, we will make a completely random draw for our ninth game.

The result is Andy gets the Persians/Parthians, Reg the Carthaginians, Richard the Macedonians, and I get the Romans.

The map at the start in 350 BC

As usual I will write up the game as it goes along.