The Chronicles Of The Shark Empire

The Organization Of Allied Forces

After that meeting, everyone voted for the Count to be the Strategos of the alliance.

although the alliance had 7 city-states, including half the capital: Nicreta, they only had 10,000 warriors, less than half the Persian forces, and they could not rely on their chief state (Sparta) as they were involved with a political-military intrigue with Athenas.

Of these 10,000 warriors, 6,000 belonged to Polymartius, as the Count made the law of social mobility apply, conscripting 4,000 freemen on an emergency basis, promising them facilitation to become citizens.

Meanwhile, citizens were partially exempted from participating in the campaign, as plantations and chicken coops were heavily dependent on them.

Sarpi was tasked with training these men, as the Count wanted them to receive hybrid training so that they could both fight on land and at sea.

Warriors from other city-states arrived, and training for them was more simplified, consisting only of synchronized marching and memorizing the different command sounds of the salpinx (trumpet).

The arriving Hyerostratos were receiving instructions from the Count, who was passing along a small portion of his knowledge in command, so that the coordination of these forces in combat would be decent.

When they went to hold the first strategic meeting of the coalition, what worried everyone was how they would go about winning a battle if they had fewer troops than the Persians, had no castles to survive sieges and didn't even have cavalry.

The exact numbers of the different troops were:

1000 naftikois (sarpi lance sailors)

1000 Kiro Sling Shooters

4000 lance militia (polymartius militia)

4000 farmer militia (from the various city-states).

All the Archons from the other city-states arrived with their troops, full of pomp, until they saw the troops stronger and better uniformed than their troops.