League Forged in War #1005040

Winning a battle is one thing. Building a power that can survive the ancient world is another.
Nikandros has risen from an outsider fighting for survival to the man at the center of Daonia’s future. But victory over Croton is only the beginning.
Enemies still surround the League. Old powers refuse to accept its rise. Sparta has ambitions of its own. Tarentum watches for weakness. The tribes of the interior are beginning to unite. And every new city brought into Daonia creates new problems of loyalty, law, trade, religion, and war.
Nikandros knows that armies alone cannot build a lasting state.
Roads must be laid. Institutions must be created. Soldiers must be trained. Allies must be bound together by more than fear. And the people of Daonia must learn to see themselves as citizens of something greater than their own cities and tribes.
But while Nikandros builds, his enemies prepare.
From the bloody banks of the Trionto to the mountain strongholds of Bruttium, Daonia will face cavalry traps, sieges, political conspiracies, shifting alliances, and wars that will decide the balance of power in southern Italy.
Nikandros once fought to survive in the age of Sparta.
Now he intends to reshape it.