The Chronicles Of The Shark Empire

The Wolves Strategy

The archons were ashamed to have sent farmer militias, who compared to Polymartius' warriors, looked like desperate beggars.

not to mention that the average power of the militia hardly reached 100, and in comparison the warriors of Sarpi (Naftikois) reached 170.

After a few hours after they arrived, the discussion was heated, how could they overcome the difference in equipment and number of troops?

The Count had contacted the Athenians to buy some copper armor.

They said that with the amount of drachmas offered, you could buy about 50 (only the breastplate), now the complete kit would be about 10 only.

Sarpi who was with the Count during the negotiation said:

_Take these drachmas and buy only shields, they will be much more useful for us.

The Count stopped to reflect and saw that it did make sense, what was light troops with no habit in heavy armor going to do? stop and wait for the enemies' arrows to run out?

then with the 10,000 drachmas he managed to buy 500 bronze shields, which were distributed among the Naftikois and Polimartius militias.

After they got tired of debating and drinking Cretan wine, it was decided that they would use a tactic they called the wolves strategy:

Attacking them constantly, day and night, sometimes causes fake attacks to generate tension and kidnap enemy command officers whenever possible.

And why wolves you ask me? no biggie, if they are black wolves from Crete, they fought as such. It was something the Count had done at the time to encourage the allies, but it seems that some of them were taking the wolf business too seriously.

Thinking that it was better for them to take the initiative in the war, on the 17th of August of the year 496 BC, a clash would begin, that the whole known world would be the audience, of the fury and of how ruthless the Cretans could be.