Korinthoi

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The Korinthoi have the power of Colonialism.
While young whippersnappers like Athenai may dream of glory and affluence, the old city-state of Korinthos has had them for centuries — long before the tyrant Pisistratos turned Athenai into the regional irritant it is today, Korinthos was already a regional trading powerhouse, thanks to her control of the Diolkos, the overland route collecting Aegean Sea trade to the Tyrrhenian Sea region further west. It is control of this route that has allowed the Korinthoi to ship everything under the sun from Egyptian grain to salt fish to fine Hellene ceramics and even Asian slaves, thanks to her vast network of colony-cities, which all gather wealth for the Korinthian metropole. 
That enterprise however is now under threat by the Athenians, who in recent years have begun to show greater willingness to challenge Korinthos on dry land and the wine-dark sea, thanks to a new commodity that they are shipping — olives and olive oil. The Athenians too, are not the only threat — a new gaggle of barbarians, the Poeni , have sailed westward to Africa and founded two new cities, Utica and Karthago, and seek to wrest control of Italy from the Korinthoi. So the metropole has called on Sparta to help, even as the Korinthoi are readying their fleets for war with Athenai and the Poeni of Utica. Should that flashpoint come, then Korinthos will find that she can count on more than just Spartan arms and Korinthoi shipping to maintain her position in Hellas: the Korinthoi rule a vast thalassocratic empire, and so can count on being able to draw on their vast reserves of manpower when it so suits them.	
While young whippersnappers like Athenai may dream of glory and affluence, the old city-state of Korinthos has had them for centuries — long before the tyrant Pisistratos turned Athenai into the regional irritant it is today, Korinthos was already a regional trading powerhouse, thanks to her control of the Diolkos, the overland route collecting Aegean Sea trade to the Tyrrhenian Sea region further west. It is control of this route that has allowed the Korinthoi to ship everything under the sun from Egyptian grain to salt fish to fine Hellene ceramics and even Asian slaves, thanks to her vast network of colony-cities, which all gather wealth for the Korinthian metropole. 
That enterprise however is now under threat by the Athenians, who in recent years have begun to show greater willingness to challenge Korinthos on dry land and the wine-dark sea, thanks to a new commodity that they are shipping — olives and olive oil. The Athenians too, are not the only threat — a new gaggle of barbarians, the Poeni , have sailed westward to Africa and founded two new cities, Utica and Karthago, and seek to wrest control of Italy from the Korinthoi. So the metropole has called on Sparta to help, even as the Korinthoi are readying their fleets for war with Athenai and the Poeni of Utica. Should that flashpoint come, then Korinthos will find that she can count on more than just Spartan arms and Korinthoi shipping to maintain her position in Hellas: the Korinthoi rule a vast thalassocratic empire, and so can count on being able to draw on their vast reserves of manpower when it so suits them.	
While young whippersnappers like Athenai may dream of glory and affluence, the old city-state of Korinthos has had them for centuries — long before the tyrant Pisistratos turned Athenai into the regional irritant it is today, Korinthos was already a regional trading powerhouse, thanks to her control of the Diolkos, the overland route collecting Aegean Sea trade to the Tyrrhenian Sea region further west. It is control of this route that has allowed the Korinthoi to ship everything under the sun from Egyptian grain to salt fish to fine Hellene ceramics and even Asian slaves, thanks to her vast network of colony-cities, which all gather wealth for the Korinthian metropole. 
That enterprise however is now under threat by the Athenians, who in recent years have begun to show greater willingness to challenge Korinthos on dry land and the wine-dark sea, thanks to a new commodity that they are shipping — olives and olive oil. The Athenians too, are not the only threat — a new gaggle of barbarians, the Poeni , have sailed westward to Africa and founded two new cities, Utica and Karthago, and seek to wrest control of Italy from the Korinthoi. So the metropole has called on Sparta to help, even as the Korinthoi are readying their fleets for war with Athenai and the Poeni of Utica. Should that flashpoint come, then Korinthos will find that she can count on more than just Spartan arms and Korinthoi shipping to maintain her position in Hellas: the Korinthoi rule a vast thalassocratic empire, and so can count on being able to draw on their vast reserves of manpower when it so suits them.	
While young whippersnappers like Athenai may dream of glory and affluence, the old city-state of Korinthos has had them for centuries — long before the tyrant Pisistratos turned Athenai into the regional irritant it is today, Korinthos was already a regional trading powerhouse, thanks to her control of the Diolkos, the overland route collecting Aegean Sea trade to the Tyrrhenian Sea region further west. It is control of this route that has allowed the Korinthoi to ship everything under the sun from Egyptian grain to salt fish to fine Hellene ceramics and even Asian slaves, thanks to her vast network of colony-cities, which all gather wealth for the Korinthian metropole. 
That enterprise however is now under threat by the Athenians, who in recent years have begun to show greater willingness to challenge Korinthos on dry land and the wine-dark sea, thanks to a new commodity that they are shipping — olives and olive oil. The Athenians too, are not the only threat — a new gaggle of barbarians, the Poeni , have sailed westward to Africa and founded two new cities, Utica and Karthago, and seek to wrest control of Italy from the Korinthoi. So the metropole has called on Sparta to help, even as the Korinthoi are readying their fleets for war with Athenai and the Poeni of Utica. Should that flashpoint come, then Korinthos will find that she can count on more than just Spartan arms and Korinthoi shipping to maintain her position in Hellas: the Korinthoi rule a vast thalassocratic empire, and so can count on being able to draw on their vast reserves of manpower when it so suits them.
Faction Type: High GreekNational Bonuses:
* Regional Prestige : Can build the Syssiton one Age earlier. Administration research 30% cheaper.
* Food Imports : Start with 50% bonus Food. This works with all resource settings, e.g. like Variable ... or Random.
* Apoikoi : Second Settlement built acts as a Capital as well. Both receive Capital border bonus, and both must be captured to eliminate you.
* Merchant Empire : Receive Taxation upgrades for free (still requires a Naos. 
*Aristocratic Intrigue : Lose access to Tier 3 Governments.
Unique Units:
(this is the traditional ungarnished Greek roster)
* : Taxiarch
* / : Angry Mob
* : 
**Skirmisher Levy [1-2] => Akontistai [Populism], 
**Sphendonetai [1-2]
**Hoplitai Haploi [Populism] 
* : 
**Promakhoi [1] => Hoplitai [2],
**Ekdromoi Hoplitai [2]
**Bowmen [1] => Toxotai [2]
* : 
**[Horse Raider]s [1] => Prodromoi [2] 
**Hippeis [1, requires Oligarchy] 
**Horseman
* : Epilektoi Hoplitai 
* : Logades
* :  
**Triakonter, [1] => Akation [2]
**Trieres (replaces Dieres along with several other Greek factions), 
**Kerkuros (civilian, shared with Egypt, Poeni, Achaemenids)
* :  Krion, Mantlet, Lithobolos
Mercenaries:
* :
** [Greeks] Mistophoroi Hoplitai, Sphendonetai Rhodioi, Toxotai Kretekoi, Tarentinoi Hippeis
* : Kataskope
**Asiatikoi Toxotai	
Faction Type: High GreekNational Bonuses:
* Regional Prestige : Can build the Syssiton one Age earlier. Administration research 30% cheaper.
* Food Imports : Start with 50% bonus Food. This works with all resource settings, e.g. like Variable ... or Random.
* Apoikoi : Second Settlement built acts as a Capital as well. Both receive Capital border bonus, and both must be captured to eliminate you.
* Merchant Empire : Receive Taxation upgrades for free (still requires a Naos. 
*Aristocratic Intrigue : Lose access to Tier 3 Governments.
Unique Units:
(this is the traditional ungarnished Greek roster)
* : Taxiarch
* / : Angry Mob
* : 
**Skirmisher Levy [1-2] => Akontistai [Populism], 
**Sphendonetai [1-2]
**Hoplitai Haploi [Populism] 
* : 
**Promakhoi [1] => Hoplitai [2],
**Ekdromoi Hoplitai [2]
**Bowmen [1] => Toxotai [2]
* : 
**[Horse Raider]s [1] => Prodromoi [2] 
**Hippeis [1, requires Oligarchy] 
**Horseman
* : Epilektoi Hoplitai 
* : Logades
* :  
**Triakonter, [1] => Akation [2]
**Trieres (replaces Dieres along with several other Greek factions), 
**Kerkuros (civilian, shared with Egypt, Poeni, Achaemenids)
* :  Krion, Mantlet, Lithobolos
Mercenaries:
* :
** [Greeks] Mistophoroi Hoplitai, Sphendonetai Rhodioi, Toxotai Kretekoi, Tarentinoi Hippeis
* : Kataskope
**Asiatikoi Toxotai	
Faction Type: High GreekNational Bonuses:
* Regional Prestige : Can build the Syssiton one Age earlier. Administration research 30% cheaper.
* Food Imports : Start with 50% bonus Food. This works with all resource settings, e.g. like Variable ... or Random.
* Apoikoi : Second Settlement built acts as a Capital as well. Both receive Capital border bonus, and both must be captured to eliminate you.
* Merchant Empire : Receive Taxation upgrades for free (still requires a Naos. 
*Aristocratic Intrigue : Lose access to Tier 3 Governments.
Unique Units:
(this is the traditional ungarnished Greek roster)
* : Taxiarch
* / : Angry Mob
* : 
**Skirmisher Levy [1-2] => Akontistai [Populism], 
**Sphendonetai [1-2]
**Hoplitai Haploi [Populism] 
* : 
**Promakhoi [1] => Hoplitai [2],
**Ekdromoi Hoplitai [2]
**Bowmen [1] => Toxotai [2]
* : 
**[Horse Raider]s [1] => Prodromoi [2] 
**Hippeis [1, requires Oligarchy] 
**Horseman
* : Epilektoi Hoplitai 
* : Logades
* :  
**Triakonter, [1] => Akation [2]
**Trieres (replaces Dieres along with several other Greek factions), 
**Kerkuros (civilian, shared with Egypt, Poeni, Achaemenids)
* :  Krion, Mantlet, Lithobolos
Mercenaries:
* :
** [Greeks] Mistophoroi Hoplitai, Sphendonetai Rhodioi, Toxotai Kretekoi, Tarentinoi Hippeis
* : Kataskope
**Asiatikoi Toxotai	
Unique buildings:
*Major City
*Noble Resicdence, Outpost
Wonders:
*Neptunium
*Mausoleum Complex 
*Heraeum Magnum 
*Delphinion 
*Asklepeion 
*Acropolis 
Upgrades:
*Can't research Monarch / Commonwealth,
*Can't research Popular Assemblies or Voting.
Settlements:	Settlements:	Settlements:	Leaders:
*Korinthos
*Lekahaion
*Kenkhrai
*Ambrakia
*Anaktorion
*Aenea	
*Sirakusa
*Korkyra
*Leucas
*Sollium
*Therma
*Nauplia
*Neapolis	
*Apollonia
*Epidamnos
*Potidaea
*Actium
*Argos
*Alyzeia	
*Timophanes
*Adeimantos
*Sosiklis
*Aristaios
*Timoleon
*Machaon
*Isocrates
*Agatharchidas
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