At the height of summer, we left our camp outside of Mediolanum for the last time. Today we went over the top, or to be more accurate, through the holes we would punch through the palisade. Since the last battle, I had been practicing day in, day out, and as we formed outside the gates, I was confident that I had learnt from the experiences of the last battle. Well, it was either confidence or arrogance.

The battle should be a walk through the park. The Germans could not muster the men, nor the quality to defend the town with any hope of success, and besieged by three legions, they were lambs to the slaughter, yet they kicked like a bull in it’s last fight in vain.



So we formed the men and had Hastati on the rams with Princepes behind. Titvs had given me strict instructions to enter the town and progress street by street with the majority of the Hastati and Princepes all the way to the town square while he waited in reserve. So we moved against the walls, and as soon as we broke through attacked the Germans either side who lay in wait. To the left was some celtic warriors with the odd inclination to fight nude. Despite the unsettling effect it had on my men, it was they who fell victim to it’s limited protection and turned tail. On the right was a stubborn unit of alpine troops deployed in a Greek phalanx. The were duly surrounded and dealt with.






From here the battle descended into chaos.

The men in reserve had relaxed and laid down their weapons when a small number of German charged into the unknowing men. I heard that it took the entire reservist force to fend of some 1200 men?1 and that were it not for the death of their leader, the entire force may have lost. In the city, there was also chaos. The men moved through streets with sporadic resistance and soon streets were choked with fighting men engaged in life and death struggles. The resistance however was collapsing. The allied legion had reached our position and the town square and most of the enemy were desperately holding on. But within minutes we smashed into the rear of the defenders and slaughtered everyman.







Once again, however, the cost had been higher than necessary. Once again my cavalry had lost a great number of the Ordos Equestrius and were demoralised. But we had defeated the great menace in the north and throughout the night, men jovially drank wine “liberated” from the warehouses and celebrated throughout the night, but I was with Titvs in his tent, and upon hearing the news from the senate sobered immediately to the task at and.



We were required to march further north. To conquer the Germanic lands beyond alps and grant them under the protectorship of the Averni. No Italian army had ever gone north past the alps. We don’t have maps, we don’t know what enemies we will face, yet we must walk into the dark lands to our north and bring to an end the Sweboz incursions that have scared the Senate and people to such lengths. It’s gonna be a long Campaign.

The State of the Republic


Currently the Republic is waging war against a Lusotannan incursion in Iberia which has seen batle lines drawn and a stalemate ensue. Currently however, there are two new legions(one full stack) heading to assist the effort there.

We are also fighting Sweboz and the Aedui Confederacy, but fighting is sporadic against the Aedui. For now that is.