Indeed the Greek Gods are fickle. After several years of almost exclusive Athenian victories, the Gods again smiled on Sparta, which won more games than Athens. But they did switch sides often. In one game, the auguries die rolls stopped the Athenians cold. While their treasury was a huge 10,250 talents to Sparta's 300, they only had five operations in four turns. Thus, Athenian bellicosity fell to the surrender level through successful Spartan sieges and ravaging. In another game, the Spartans were able to cut the Athenian grain supply from the Black Sea areas and won enough small battles to force an Athenian surrender. But the Gods did not always smile on Sparta. After a small army made its way past nine interception
attempts and ravaged all the way down the Asian coast, the Spartans lost all their ships and half their hoplites during the rest of the first turn. As a result Sparta was too weak to continue past its first operation of the second turn.

The final game saw former champion Brian Mountford as Sparta pitted against Orhan Omer as Athens. On the first turns, both sides tasted both successes and failures. Sparta ravaged the Asian coast, assaulted Macedonia and Stagirus, and reinforced Potidaea, but lost a battle at Larisa and its fleet at Corinth, and incredibly skirmishes killed six Spartan hoplite
strength points. Meanwhile Athens sent a fleet to Byzantium to guard its grain supply and destroyed the Spartan Allied fleet at Corinth. Both sides failed to cause rebellion attempts. The second turn only saw three operations before ending on Auguries die rolls, but in that time the Gods turned against Athens. Corcyran allies suffered a civil war and Delian League allies Lampsacus and Iasus rebelled. Sparta reinforced Macedonia, and eventually killed all the Athenian allies in the north. On turn 3, the Delian League rebellion spread to Olynthus. Sparta again ravaged the Asian coast, sieged Torone, and reinforced Corinth and Potidaea. Athens sent a fleet to siege Melos, again assaulted the Corinthian fleet, and attempted to re-siege Potidaea. In the battle for Corinth, the Athenians won the naval battle, but Sparta won the land battle and retained control. The Athenian siege at Potidaea failed. By the end of the turn, lost battles and the affects of Spartan ravaging, drove Athenian bellicosity to the surrender level. Thus did Brian Mountford regain the championship of PPW.

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