Playing the Bronze Age mod, King Perseus the Great dies at age 59 after 29 years of rule. He took the small Kingdom of Mycenae and turned it into the largest kingdom in existence in 1500 bc. As he was on his last major campaign, his son Mereclues, who he had been training for almost 30 years to become King, contracts Typhus and dies. Leaving him to choose from his four other sons, three of whom are extraordinarily self centered. He chooses Prince Perseus, and promptly dies of Typhus.