Issue 117 - The Battle of Pelusium

Issue 117 of Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy is themed around the wars of the Achaemenid Persian empire. Cambyses had famously added Egypt to the empire but by the early fourth century BC, Egyptian pharaohs ruled again. That is, until Nectanebo II unwisely supported a Phoenician rebel and incurred the wrath of Artaxerxes II.

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