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September 2nd 31B.C. Actium, Greece.

In the year 32B.C. political tensions between Octavian and Mark Antony erupted into the War of Actium. Octavian controlled Italy, Gaul, Iberia and North Africa, while Mark Antony controlled, Greece, Macedon, Anatolia, the Levant and Egypt. In early 31B.C. Mark Antony made plans to invade Italy, from Greece. Octavian struck first however, sending Marcus Agrippa to raid and capture the city of Methone in Greece. After capturing Methone Agrippa used the city as a staging ground to raid Antony's sea supply route. Antony's forces faced a shortage of supplies almost immediately. Agrippa then captured the island of Corcyra(Corfu), which allowed Octavian to sail with the rest of his fleet toward Greece.

Octavian's men landed around Nicopolis and set up a camp. Agrippa then led his fleet and captured the island of Leucas, effectively trapping Antony's army and navy in Actium. Moral started to drop among Antony's forces, and many men began to desert and join Octavian, disease also took it's toll on Antony's forces. Antony attempted to breakout of the blockade by sea but was driven back. On September 2nd 31B.C. Antony gathered all of his ships and sailed towards Octavian's blockade. Antony, had 400 ships 40k sailors 20k Roman marines and 2k archers. Octavian had 500 ships and a similar number of sailors and marines, but had 3k archers. On Octavian's side Octavian commanded the right wing, while Agrippa commanded the left. On Antony's side Antony commanded the left while a man named Gaius Sosius commanded the right and Cleopatra commanded a reserve line of Egyptian ships.

Antony made the opening move and attacked Octavian's lines, Octavian fell back a bit, but then had his wing turn around and attack Antony. Scorpions and catapults initially fired, followed by the archers firing as the ships got closer to each other. The ships then rammed each other and boarding began. After several hours of fighting, Cleopatra's ships began to move toward the battle, but instead of joining the battle she sailed through a gap in the lines and headed for open water. Upon seeing this Antony followed her on his ship and with a few others and left the battle. The rest of Antony's fleet continued fighting until Octavian decided to give up on capturing the remaining ships and decided to have them lit on fire instead. This ended the battle with Octavian the victor. Antony and Cleopatra fled to Egypt. Octavian then gained control of Greece and Macedonia.

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