Chandragupta: Great Battles of the Mauryan Empire – India, 319-261 BC

Chandragupta brings the art of war in ancient India to GMT’s “Great Battles of History” Series. Beginning with Chandragupta Maurya’s victories over the Nanda clan, the game follows the brief but rapid rise of the Mauryan dynasty, from Chandragupta’s expulsion of Seleucus from the Indus river valley to the conquest of the last independent kingdom on the subcontinent, Kalinga, by his grandson Ashoka. The Mauryan empire became the largest and most powerful in India’s history – a distinction that would remain unchallenged until the arrival of the Mughals some 1,700 years later.…