Results are in, and what an exciting game this suddenly is!
 
Rome:
F Adriatic Sea - Dalmatia (*Fails*)
A Etruria - Massilia (*Fails*)
F Neapolis - Sicilia
A Roma Hold
F Tyrrhenean Sea Supports F Neapolis - Sicilia
A Vindobona Supports F Adriatic Sea - Dalmatia
Carthage:
F Berber Sea Convoys A Mauretania - Massilia
F Ligurian Sea Convoys A Mauretania - Massilia
A Mauretania - Massilia
F Punic Sea Convoys A Thapsus - Sardinia
A Tarraconensis Supports A Mauretania - Massilia
A Thapsus - Sardinia
Persia:
A Armenia - Sinope
A Cappadocia Supports A Armenia - Sinope
F Cilician Strait - Miletus
F Cyprus - Cilician Strait
A Dacia - Byzantium (*Bounce*)
A Tyre Hold
Greece:
F Aegean Sea - Byzantium (*Bounce*)
F Byzantium - Black Sea
A Dalmatia Supports A Illyria (*Cut*)
A Galatia - Miletus (*Fails*)
A Illyria Supports A Dalmatia
F Athens(ec) - Macedonia
Egypt:
A Cyrene Hold
F Gulf of Pelusium - Egyptian Sea
F Libyan Sea - Messenian Sea
A Marmarica Hold
F Minoan Sea Supports F Cilician Strait - Miletus
A Petra - Jerusalem

 
Map is attached.  Check for errors.  Winter builds/disbands are
 
Rome must disband 1
Carthage may build 1
Persia may build 2
Greece must disband 1
Egypt may build 2
 
Builds/disbands are due Wed Feb 3rd at 5:00 PM, but I'll adjud earlier IF I have ALL orders AND every order has FINAL in the subject.  Recall, this winter build is 298 BC.

--
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing. The shadow, even the darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you - That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding onto something."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."