If the Magna Graecia DLC is enabled, the Delian League is instead formed as a reward for completing the Restoring the Delian League Athenian unique national mission, one of the final mission trees available after regaining independence and securing control over Attica. Mission Tree Formation Main article: Restoring the Delian League All fully coloured territories must be owned or vassalized. Requirements for forming the Delian League by decision. Add 4 citizen pops, 4 freemen pops, and 4 slave pops to the capital.Capital gets the modifier Great League Capital until the end of the game, giving:.Get the modifier Aeagean Hegemony until the end of the game, giving:.Owns or has a subject own all of the following territories:.Is not AI-controlled or owns at least 20 territories.Country is in the Hellenistic culture group.Successfully restoring the Delian League will be a difficult feat considering Athens's own position as a an Antigonid subject and beyond that will likely involve more contention with much larger and nominally stronger powers, but would be a powerful demonstration of the return of Athenian power. Originally founded in 478 BC to continue the Greco-Persian Wars after the defeat of Xerxes I's invasion to liberate the Ionian cities from Achaemenid rule, Athens's increasing control and dominance over its member states made it a great naval power and the most powerful city in Greece, ending with the defeat and dismantlement of the Delian League at the hands of the rival Peloponnesian League of Sparta at the end of the Peloponnesian Wars in 404 BC.Ī resurgent Athens can reform the league through either decision or one of its unique mission trees, depending on whether the Magna Graecia DLC is enabled, if it has managed to regain control over the key cities across the Aegean Sea and beyond that once made up the league, most of which begin the game subject to the Diadochi Kingdoms of Thrace, and Macedon, and especially the Antigonid Kingdom. The Delian League is a special formable nation for Athens, representing a restoration of the thalassocratic league it led and dominated that at its height included most of the cities of the Aegean and Propontic Seas from Rhodes to Byzantion and the cities of Chalkidiki as well as more distant allies as far as Korkyra and Cephalonia.

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