Romaioi Barbaroi-An ahistorical Romani AAR

**Mediolanicus** · 02-07-2009, 16:45

AFAIK it does indeed mean that. And since you're talking about private baths, slaves, etc... You're making them look quite decadent/barbaric to me.

I will enlighten you on 1 point though... You seem to type an "o" every time you get an "e" sound (e.g.: enlighton/enlighten, charactors/characters).

Apart from that little thingy this AAR is looking quite perfect ;) Keep it up!

**Vasiliyi** · 02-08-2009, 10:01

Chapter Four. First blood

Lucius awoke to the sounds of a soldier. The march last night had wearied him apparently and he had slept soundly through the night.

"My lord, they are coming!" The soldier exclaimed, "They're coming with a huge force!"

Lucius bolted straight out of his makeshift bed, and looked around with his sleepy eyes, thinking how there was no time for a bath. Unfortunately, he thought.

"Assemble the men, I want all of them ready by the time I'm out of this tent!" Lucius yelled at the soldier as he was putting on his sandals. "Hurry the hell up! What in the world are you waiting for!?"

"Yes lord." Said the young soldier as he dashed out of the room.

What in the world is going on, Lucius thought, how did they Eporites know where we landed, and how did they manage to summon a force to face us already. No time to panic, he thought to himself. Roman discipline will save the day.

He stepped out of his tent and his horse was waiting for him already. All of his bodyguards were in their full plethora of armor and weapons. He gazed about at the camp and watched his soldiers scrambling to get ready for battle. His world seemed to get smaller as he focused on them...

"Sir, we are ready to go." Flavius said.

The words startled him and he nodded quickly and got on his horse.

"Flavius, stay back and supervise the burning of the camp. If something were to happen today, I wouldn't want those bastards to eat our bread and drink out wine."

"Yes sir, will do." Flavius answered obediently.

The legion left the campsite and entered a valley, it was quite the clearing, a surprise to Lucius who thought they would be fighting a forest battle. He assembled his men into 2 lines, with him and his bodyguard in between, along with the first cohort. On the side of the 2 lines he set up the Catapulta along with more legionaries to keep it safe.

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The army was set up just in time, for the Eporites wasted no times for pre-battle negotiations. Alexandros Aiakides wanted to show the Romans who they were dealing with and what they should expect. No mercy, and no quarter.

"MEN! I do not have time for many words, nor do you need them. Stay in your lines, defend your belly, and help the man to your right and left, if you are brave, and if the Gods don't think your worthy enough to die today, then we will WIN! ROMA VICTRIX! "Lucius said as he watched the Eporite force close in....

"ROMA VICTRIX!" The legionaries shouted wholeheartedly.

What happened next was a mess. Enemy skirmishers charged and threw their javelins at the line. Given orders of fire at will, the legionaries threw back. After the skirmishers ran out of javelins they retreated behind the pezhetairoi. With the lines fully engaged, Lucius watched for any weak spots. The enemy had more calvary so he dare not venture out in the open until they were engaged. He watched his left flank become open to attack and ordered a cohort of the second line to protect it. Alexandros knew battle well, and sent elite skirmishers to flank the Romans while he distracted their front lines with phalanxes.

Lucius seeing the breakdown of his left flack orders his first cohort to engage there, he also moved nearer to inspire the men. Meanwhile on the right flank enemy calvary charged the legionaries, and in the middle the whole line of soldiers were being pushed back by the long pikes of the Pezhetairoi. To add to his fear, his left flank was being engaged by the Chaeonion Agema. All seemed to hang in the balance of his soldiers discipline.

Then as if the Gods smiled at him that day, the enemy commander was to impetuous and was cut of from his body guard. He fought on hard, but the mass of soldiers that surrounded him was unbearable and he instead of dieing by a roman pig, put his own sword into his belly. He was dragged of his horse and slashed and spat on by who knows how many soldiers. His horse soon fell too and he looked at it, and said "You are much better than those barbarians." Those words were met with a gladius in his neck and his last breath was full of blood. Alexanders blood.

News of the death quickly spread and one by one levies and battered phalanxes began to run. Lucius was too far away to see what happened but when he saw the enemy run he quickly ordered the movement of his own bodyguards to flank the Chaeonion Agema. After gaining speed and lowering their spears they charged right into the backs of the phalanx. Much to his surprise though the phalanx did not break but was so disorganized by multiple attacks that it just ceased being effective. They were quickly cut down and shredded in flesh and steel.

After that, the whole army broke. The 2nd line had by this time enveloped the phalanxes and with their general gone and elites defeated the ordinary pezhetairoi saw no reason to fight and ran.

Exhausted after a long fight that lasted hours, Lucius blew his horn and ordered no chasing the routers. Not like the men could though. They had no breakfast and those who did were now throwing it up from the countless bodies and smell on the field. Lucius got of his horse and walked to the spot where he had killed a man. He was laying on his chest and was facing down. Lucius, with difficulty flipped him on his side and looked him in the face. Clean shaven, dark green eyes, young. This man must have been no older than 25. Lucius got on his knees and spoke to the corpse.

"I know that if the circumstances would have been different, you and I could have been friends. But you are an enemy of Rome, and I a Barbarian. I'm sure you fought well, and deserve a proper burial, but it does not work this way." He spoke so calmly, as if to a son, it was an ere conversation, well dialogue. "For i have won, and you have lost."

With that Lucius took out his dagger and cut through the dead mans chest to his heart. With much skill and dexterity he cut out his heart and looked at it. Then he took a piece of cloth from the young soldier and wrapped it. He closed the dead mans eyes and kissed him on his forehead. Then he took the heart and set it on the ground next to a Greek standard he took out his sword and dug a small whole, just enough for the heart to fit it. With that he set the heart into the ground and covered it with dirt.

That night, after the soldiers had their way with the loot and took what they wanted, there was a great feast in the fort, even though they had to make a new one. The enemy commanders head was on a stake in the middle of the fort right next to the main tent's entrance. Lucius was drunk with wine, and pondered. What barbarians war makes men.

**Vasiliyi** · 02-08-2009, 18:50

Wow, sorry for all the mistakes. I wrote this at 3am and I was a bit tired. Ill fix it when I get home.

**Maion Maroneios** · 02-08-2009, 20:26

OK good stuff so far mate. And excuse me for the OT discussion with satalexton

Maion

**Vasiliyi** · 02-08-2009, 20:48

Thank you Maion, much appreciated. Btw, I enjoyed reading your interactive aar, I never posted but I definatly lurked and read every post of yours. It was really quite good. Oh, and do you have any suggestions for my aar?

**gamegeek2** · 02-09-2009, 03:31

hey, I see you have post-marian legionaries. Cheater :P

**Vasiliyi** · 02-09-2009, 03:49

Yep, its there for the roleplay purpose. Thanks for reading. =)

**Maion Maroneios** · 02-09-2009, 09:54

Originally Posted by King Vasiliyi

Thank you Maion, much appreciated. Btw, I enjoyed reading your interactive aar, I never posted but I definatly lurked and read every post of yours. It was really quite good. Oh, and do you have any suggestions for my aar?

Ah, thanks for the good words. The only suggestion I can give you is the following: Have fun with the AAR. Don't ever force yourself to write, because it will be reflected to the readers. As long as you have fun, at least some people are bound to enjoy reading it.

Maion

**Vasiliyi** · 02-09-2009, 16:27

Chapter 5. Traitors.

Aulus hated going to the baths. There was something about exposing himself to to other men that made him extremely unnerved. He looked around at the young men laughing a wrestling around as he walked into the private section of the public baths in Rome. The baths were quite fancy, and he was the one who organized building them. Of course, he did it because he wanted to be famous, not because he liked the warm water feel against his skin.

He was meeting Admiral Lucius Valerius Flaccus here. Quite the long name for some dumb captain. But Rome loved giving out long names. He took of his toga and slipped into the warm water. He wondered how long he would have to wait for the old fool to show up. He closed his eyes and thought to himself for a while. He saw great fanfare in the streets of Rome proclaiming him the greatest man in the world. He saw the senators bowing and putting their fists to their hearts. The masses repeating name "Aulus, Aulus, Aulus!" He smiled.

"Aulus."

He opened his eyes and realized that the admiral was here. The admiral was quite flaccid and well, it wasn't attractive at all.

"Aulus, is that you?" The admiral repeated.

"Yes its me you fool, your late." Aulus sneared back.

"Forgive me, i was finishing selling my..."

"Is it done, can i count on you that everything is as planned?"

"Oh yes my lord, we did just as you said." The admiral realized that something was wrong.

Yes lord... Aulus thought. I could get used to that. "Good, and the bodies, what did you do with the bodies?"

"They are still there, it would be unnatural for us to move them." The admiral said. He was a coward when it came to blood and threw up many times on his voyage, both before his actions and after. He fainted at the site of blood, that did not help him be an admiral i suppose, but having family connections does help.

"I understand. Thank you." With that, Aulus got out of the bath and put on his clothing, and walked out. On the way out he motioned with his head to a man who was standing and watching the whole time in the shadows.

The admiral stayed there for hours and when he finally got out, the place was empty. He got out of the water and stretched. He was quite drunk with wine and it took him forever to put on his toga. When he finally turned to leave, the man from the shadows put a dagger into the admirals belly. Not once, but 4 times. Then he dropped it and ran. Flaccus fell back into the water.