Roma Interactive

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

Title says it all, the Roma Interactive.


Rules are the same as my Middle Ages Interactive.

Nations:

Senate of Rome- Comrade Alexeo
Gauls- Keba
Carthage- Motep
Macedon- PatriarchofConstantinople
Ptolemaic Empire- Conqueror
Seleucid Empire- Csar
Bactria- Cataphract_of_the_City
Armenia- UltraWar
Parthia- Warluster
Thracio-Dacia- Caius Flaminius
Britannia- IrishArmenian
Epirus- Ignoramus


And more....................

[Comrade Alexeo]

Oooo, I call Rome pretty please!

[IrishArmenian]

Brittania please!

[Motep]

I shall choose the Cathaginians.

[Comrade Alexeo]

Question: When is this taking place?

If we take the existence of the Etruscans and Rome being ruled as a Senate, then this must be at least sometime after Tarquinius Superbus, the Etruscan king, was expelled from Rome in 510 B.C.E. Veii, the last Etruscan city of any real importance, was sacked in 396 by the Romans, and by the end of the Third Samnite War in 90, Rome annexed the last vestiges of the Etruscans and held the entire peninsula.

Thus 510 - 90 B.C.E.

Now, the Successor States of Alexander effectively came into being in 323 B.C.E. when his generals were appointed governors of what would become the States by Alexander IV and Phillip III. If we're going by actual "empires" existing then Antigonos and Ptolemy had appointed themselves kings by 305, so we can go from there.

Thus 305-90 B.C.E.

Now, the Parthians can be taken two ways: either as a people on the move, which still fits within our timeframe here of 305-90; or as a kingdom, which happened when Arsaces decided to settle down in what are now the Turkish states (the "Stans"), which is about 250 B.C.E.

Thus, our interactive must be taking place between either 305-90 or 250-90 B.C.E.

Again, I ask: When is this taking place?

[Motep]

Question: When is this taking place?

If we take the existence of the Etruscans and Rome being ruled as a Senate, then this must be at least sometime after Tarquinius Superbus, the Etruscan king, was expelled from Rome in 510 B.C.E. Veii, the last Etruscan city of any real importance, was sacked in 396 by the Romans, and by the end of the Third Samnite War in 90, Rome annexed the last vestiges of the Etruscans and held the entire peninsula.

Thus 510 - 90 B.C.E.

Now, the Successor States of Alexander effectively came into being in 323 B.C.E. when his generals were appointed governors of what would become the States by Alexander IV and Phillip III. If we're going by actual "empires" existing then Antigonos and Ptolemy had appointed themselves kings by 305, so we can go from there.

Thus 305-90 B.C.E.

Now, the Parthians can be taken two ways: either as a people on the move, which still fits within our timeframe here of 305-90; or as a kingdom, which happened when Arsaces decided to settle down in what are now the Turkish states (the "Stans"), which is about 250 B.C.E.

Thus, our interactive must be taking place between either 305-90 or 250-90 B.C.E.

Again, I ask: When is this taking place?

nice...

[Conqueror]

These interactives just keep popping up

I'll play as the Ptolemaic Empire

[Keba]

Gaul, please, if it's still free.

Though, are we talking unified Gaul or just one of the many tribes? Either way is fine by me.

[Caius]

Thrace please

[Caius]

It will have RTW troops?

[UltraWar]

If Dacia was available, I'd be them

If Dacia is not available I'd be Thracia

(I'd prefer to be Britannia/Roman family though )

[Csargo]

I guess I'll take the Seleucid Empire

[Csargo]

Can we have a map?

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

Imageshack won't load my maps :(

Will someone try to find a map on this era?

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

510 BC, when the last Etruscan King was driven out of Rome

[Conqueror]

There were no Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires in 510 BC...

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

Err, crap, changed.


Starting at 294 BC, no Etruscans.

[Comrade Alexeo]

I'll make a map sometime later if you like.

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

Thank you

[Motep]

ah...thats somethng I was planning to do...

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

Well, any map by anyone on the period is great

[Comrade Alexeo]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

This is the map for Europe (I'm still working on the Asian map, expect soon).

For the most part, I've made it accurate where I can: Carthage, Roma, and the three Successor States.

"Gaul" here symbolizes the various Gallic-Celtic tribes of Europe; hence why they don't go past the Rhine, and their presence in northern Italy. Note that in practice these were in no way really unified or cohesive in any manner.

"Iberia" is, to be honest, essentially filler of what Carthage doesn't yet have. Once again, like Gaul, this wasn't unified in any sense either; "Celts" would be virtually everyone in Gaul and Iberia, although are here split for our purposes.

Britannia is, like its Celtic cousins on the Continent, also essentially arbitrary. They don't have Scotland because, although Celts of a fashion were there (the Picts, Scots, Welsh, Irish etc., were all Celtic tribes), they were of a different sort than the "Britons" in the same sense that the "Gauls" were different from the "Iberians".

Dacia and Thracia are also arbitrary; neither was unified on any sort of grand scale, and indeed the split between them is also arbitrary, as the people of that area were essentially just "Thraco-Dacians".

Armenia is mostly conjecture based on their general history and historical anecdotes (the Armenian king offered Crassus aid if he marched through the Armenian mountains when the Roman led his army against Parthia; Crassus, of course, declined, marching straight across the desert and meeting his famous defeat at Carrhae).

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Parthia and Bactria's territories are overlapping Seleucid territories; this is deliberate, as at this point both countries are still technically satrapies, and subservient to the Seleucids. In practice, the Parthians (still in many ways a migrating horse-peoples) are beginning to slowly exert their own influence over areas neglected by the Seleucids, and the Bactrians are doing essentially the same thing; waiting for Seleucid weakness to become apparent, waiting to strike. Again, though: Bactria is a Seleucid satrapy; and those parts of "Parthia" not controlled by the Parthians themselves won't become organized under any one ruler until Arsaces I in about 250 B.C.E.

[Csargo]

There are no Germanic Tribes?

[Ignoramus]

Can I be Epirus?

[Conqueror]

Can I be Epirus?

Hopefully! Pyrrhus is alive and well in 294 BC and the world has yet to realize just how much of a threat he is Should make a nice addition to this interactive.


To Comrade Alexeo: Is that Macedonian territory really correct for 294 BC? I thought they wouldn't have western Asia Minor anymore and would have regained parts of sourthern Greece.

[Cataphract_Of_The_City]

I would like to play Bactria.

[Caius]

I want to start

[Comrade Alexeo]

Europe map updated with Epirus, Asia map added; scroll up.

Csar: No one has asked to represent the Germanic tribes, so until then just regard them as "there" on your own.

Conqueror: Yes, the map is indeed correct for this period. If you want Asia Minor, you're gonna have to fight for it

[Csargo]

Europe map updated with Epirus, Asia map added; scroll up.

Csar: No one has asked to represent the Germanic tribes, so until then just regard them as "there" on your own.

Conqueror: Yes, the map is indeed correct for this period. If you want Asia Minor, you're gonna have to fight for it

Well that's just it I'de rather play as Germanic tribes

[Warluster]

I will play as Parthia please!