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8 - Eumenes 2: Man of War

Cost of Glory

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Antigonus, the New Protector of the Kings

Antipater, now around 80 years old, is eager to get back to his ancestral lands before his time runs out. He wants to send a signal that the cpital of a kingdom run by macedonians should be in macedonia. So he takes king philip arideus and roxana and the baby, king alexander the fourth, back with him from egypt. And he appoints as supreme general of the royal army, antigonus the one eyed,. And he puts antigonus in charge of finishing what's left of this war. But plutarch tells that eumenes none the less, made his troops an offer. If any

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