... Brasidas turns his sights North, into Thrace, to stab at the heart of the Athenian empire by taking the diadem of their Empire, Amphipolis, to cut them off from the timber much needed to build their warships and the Pangaion gold mines. With Athens. The stakes could not be higher for either Sparta or Athens in this intense power struggle between Ancient Greece's primary powers, a dual to the death. But beware the treachery of the Macedonian King Perdiccas...

Elsewhere, Brasidas's brother, the spy Pheidon has discovered that Athens is planning to attack Boeotia in a pincer with two large armies under Demosthenes and Hippokrates – what unfolds is the largest pitched hoplite battle of the war so far, between Theban led Boeotia against Hippokrates' 18,000 plus army...

Back in Thrace, Brasidas, betrayed by King Perdiccas, decides to press on, and to the incredulity of the Greek world, his 700 Brasadian hoplites, crush all resistance and accumulates eager allies like honey attracts bees. Set for the final dual before the walls of Amphipolis, Brasidas will carve his name into history...