Timeline of the WAB Mini-Campaign

Year 1 Month 1
Army of the Evoker first sighted in the villages of southern Aegyptus. Some villages were destroyed while some towns and villages fell in with the rebels

Year 1 Month 6
Fall of Thebes to the rebels and was sacked. The rebel army digs in and awaits supplies.

Year 1 Month 11
The city of Siwa defected to the rebels

Year 2 Month 3
Imperial Army arrives in Alexandria

Year 2 Month 4
Rebel Army approaches the city of Memphis and began to encircle the city. The encirclement was not completed when news reported that the occupied cities of Thebes and Siwa were being cut off by a huge Imperial army. The rebels break off the siege.

Year 2 Month 4
Battle of Jawas. The rebels were defeated and half of the army was destroyed. The great Evoker was captured and executed. The leadership of the rebellion has been transferred to the Bantu leaders.

Year 2 Month 5
Imperial Aegyptus troops drove the fleeing rebels into the city of Thebes. Imperials began to start a loose blockage of the city, capturing every caravan that brought supplies to the city.

The Emperor warns his Carthaginian and Numidian vassals to not join cause with the rebels.

A messenger was sent to King Shaka of Isandhwana seeking assistance.

Year 2 Month 6
A second and much larger Imperial army consisting of Byzantine and Aegyptus troops army and began a tight encirclement of the city of Thebes. The rebels in Thebes began a propaganda campaign to inspire the locals to the city’s defence. With the memories of the prior sacking of the city fresh in their minds, the locals were unconvinced.

Year 3 Month 6
After a year’s siege, Imperial army requested for a truce and negotiated with the rebels. The rebel army will surrender the city but in return they will be granted safe access to the city of Siwa. An agreement was made, Thebes now belong to the Imperials.

Year 4 Month 2
Army of Aegyptus began preparation on the siege of Siwa.

Year 4 Month 6
While the main Imperial forces tries to distract the Rebel main army, the army of Aegyptus tries to sneak into Siwa and bumped into an all Libyan (who are allied to the Bantu confederation) force. Despite killing the Libyan commander, the Aegyptians were soundly defeated with four-fifth of the army destroyed. Lord Ahmose was killed in a chaotic cavalry melee. Basti the Kushite, a young warrior who was orphaned in the early days of the rebellion, led the remnants of the army to a fighting withdrawal.

Year 4 Month 8
The remnants of the Aegyptian army began to reassemble at Thebes. The former chariot runner of Lord Ahmose, Basti the Kushite was appointed Commander of the Aegyptus force for his bravery and determination in the past few battles.

Basti realised that his troops are too light equipped to challenge the more well-equipped Libyan soldiers of Siwa and resolve to rebuild a stronger army.

Meanwhile, the Imperial army began its withdrawal to the more hospitable city of Alexandria after six months in the field.

In the rebel’s end, victory scored by the Libyan forces greatly raised the spirits of the Bantu Confederation. A new field army, meant to replace the forces defeated at Jawa more than 2 years ago, was finally formed to bring the fight to the Imperials!

Year 5 Month 1
The city of Siwa was finally taken by the Aegyptians. The Aegyptians nearly failed and the battle was won only because a small elite force managed to sneak into the city while the Libyans butchered in the Aegyptians at the main gate.

Year 7 Month 10
It was another three years since the re-occupation of Thebes. No pitch battles were fought although a series of minor skirmishes took place throughout the period. However in the tenth month of the seventh year, the Numidian contingents of the rebels make a northern expedition to recover several towns and villages towards the province of Numidia and met an imperial army. The Numidian contingents were destroyed including the veterens from Siwa recruited years ago. About a hundred Numidian cavalry fled to the rebel base of Dongola to report the bad news.

The news was taken badly by the rebels, already it had sunk into the rebel leaders that no support and reinforcements will provided from Isandhwana in the south. The rebellion forces are on their own.

The Imperials are not a better position either. The empire is embroiled in wars along its frontiers and several regiments were sent to other war zones. Nevertheless Commander Basti keen to finish the campaign and he will build an army from scratch again if he has to do so (this will be the third time). Rebel negotiators that were sent to pally were killed.

Meanwhile, the tribes of Kush and Nubia began to recover from the bloodshed that took place in the early years of the war.

Year 9 Month 2
The newly recruited Imperial forces began to slowly secure the towns and villages south of Thebes. The rebels offered no opposition.

Year 10 Month 1
Commander Basti finally brought the Imperial army to the outskirts of the rebel fortress of Dongola. A fierce battle ensued and both leaders of the opposing forces, Basti the Kushite and Pewas Heartbreaker, were killed in the fighting.

The Imperial heavy cavalry eventually prevailed and crushed the rebel field army. The surviving Bantu leaders sued for peace and submitted to the Imperials. Dongola was handed over to the Empire but the surviving rebel troops were allowed to go free (and to become the most battle hardened and sought after mercenaries in the realm after the war).

The Bantu rebellion was over.