500 BCE RP

Since it seems like 500 BCE won the poll I'll start adding rules and countries to this thread and we'll start when we're ready.

Game description and rules
The RP is based on 500/499 BCE at the start of the Ionian revolt.

All normal RP rules apply (see Eugene V. Debs 's pinned thread) unless otherwise is said. Anyways, here are a few rules to keep in mind:

1. Armies
Army sizes are fixed, no recruiting. Some sides don't have any navy, but they can have 30 triremes to give everyone the possibility of naval combat.
2. Diplomacy
You are free to make alliances and declare war. However, any written treaty or alliance cannot be broken until it expires.

Sides
Because of lack of information and of the hundreds of different city states, some sides consist of multiple states. They are however based on history in some way, for example the division of Greeks in Italy is made based on the origin of the colonies.

Army sizes of the specific era cannot be precicely determined for most sides and they are estimations based on different wars and battles the side was engaged, primalrily in the 6th and 5th century BCE, but on later and earlier wars too, if necessary. Also, in some cases I may take into account the balance of the RP so no side would have a huge or tiny army.

Ionian Revolt
Ionian side: Athens, Eretria and the Ionian city states Eugene V. Debs - 37,000 infantry, 200 triremes - Map colour: blue
Persian side: Achaemenid Empire Shrimant Peshwa Madhavrao Bhat - 90,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, 600 triremes - Map colour: light orange

Neutrals:

Etruria - 40,000 infantry, 1,800 cavalry, 90 triremes (Kliment Jefremovitš Vorošilov) - Map colour: red
Carthage - 50,000 infantry, 2500 cavalry, 240 triremes - Map colour: purple
Rome Port - 17,000 infantry and 1800 cavalry
Illyria - 11,000 infantry, 500 cavalry
Southern Thracian Tribes
Oscans
Umbrians
Ligures - 5,000 infantry
Veneti - 5,000 infantry
Raeti - 5,000 infantry
Southern Iberians Don Quixote de la Mancha
Scythia
Elymnians
Sicel
Sican

Greeks (not an alliance):

Mainland Greece:
Peloponnesian League (Manfred von Richthofen ): 30,000 infantry, 160 triremes
Thessalia Darth Revan_ - 10,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry
Epirus
Boeotia eeeeef - 17,500 infantry, 1000 cavalry
Aetolia
Argos

Greek colonies:
Doric states of Italy John Marston (Gela, Akragas, Syracuse) - 30,000 infantry, 2,000 cavalry, 200 triremes
Ionic states of Italy (Naxos, Himera, Rhegion, Cumae) Theron of Acragas - 23,500 infantry, 100 triremes
Achaean states of Italy (Croton, Sybaris) - 13,000 infantry
Locri - 10,000 infantry
Massalia - 7,000 infantry, 80 triremes
Black Sea Colonies



Italy


Whole RP


Greece


The red line seperates the territories between Sparta and Athens. All blue areas around Delphi, Etreria and Athens are part of the Athens side, as well as the Ionian revolt (which is simplified, but makes it easier for RP purposes), which is marked in the bigger map. The grey area between Delphi and Athens is Boeotia (eeeeef ). For other divisions between Greek sides see the bigger map, except that Aetolia doesn't really have land in the Peloponnesos (Spartan territory). Also don't mind about the blue territory in Epirus/Acarnania.

Sicily (stolen from YouTube )

As told in the map, Gela, Selinous, Akragas and Syracuse are part of Dorics. Leontinoi, Naxos, Zancle, Mylae, Himera, Rhegion are part of the Ionics.