Xerexes turns the tables at Salamis

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Instead of sailing into the Greek Fleet Xerxes calmly decides to wait them out as Queen Artemisia of Caria suggested.

Sending the Egyptian Squadron to block the west channel as OTL, Xerxes then uses the Island of Pysttaleia as a pivot point and base from which to block in the Greek fleet, while he used his numbers superiority to land troops elsewhere as needed.

Xerxes is taking a bit of a risk here, but figures that though some problems may arise at home they would be even worse if returns without a decisive victory with which to attract more recruits to his forces.

End result is a strategic death blow to the Greek Fleet if they stay or sail out as Xerxes isn't going to come into the restricted channel to fight them.
 

Arrix85

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So also Peloponnesus will fall :eek:. the consequences of a persian conquest of Greece are staggering (afterwards they would be too divided to rise against the conquerors in a meaninful way). After a few years to consolidate Greece and Macedonia, where the Persians would go? I guess I have to take a peek at Rome and Carthage in this period.
 
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So also Peloponnesus will fall :eek:. the consequences of a persian conquest of Greece are staggering (afterwards they would be too divided to rise against the conquerors in a meaninful way). After a few years to consolidate Greece and Macedonia, where the Persians would go? I guess I have to take a peek at Rome and Carthage in this period.

Xerxes next problem will be India, so after Greece, the Persians will be occupied trying to figure out how to deal with India.
 

Arrix85

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Maybe you are right, but I'd say that a few minor expeditions in Magna Grecia (the greek colonies in southern Italy, they could meddle in the punic-greek wars) could be possible. Maybe a more direct intervention in Italy will come when Rome will start to expand in the peninsula.
 
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