The Will of the Senate - First Consul reports

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

16. Spring 256 BC

Our neighbours, the Iberians, destroy their erstwhile allies, the Gauls. Our nation finally has revenge for the sack of Roma so long ago.


The riots in Debeltos continue. Anarchy rules the streets of Melite and the Carthagians are unsure of whether they want to bother to take such a looted place, and stay out of town.



Disastrous news reaches us. The Ptolemaic empire has declared war, which not only means we are now completely outnumbered and outclassed at sea, but even worse, we lose the profitable trade with them, which means a ghastly drop in our revenue.

Our German allies, who are losing the war with Iberia, negotiate a ceasefire with the kingdom of Thrace.

Tarentum finished construction of a shrine to Saturnus. Massilia finished construction of a practice range.

Roma recruits a cohort of funditores. Arretium recruits a cohort of triarii. Arminium recruits a cohort of Italian spearmen. Corfinium recruits a cohort of Italian swordsmen. Paestum recruits a cohort of velites. Corinth and Athens finish construction of a superior light aphract.

We are still searching for the diplomat traitor, Sextius Antio, but he has managed to elude us. He cannot run forever. To keep in practice, we order the death of a Thracian diplomat.


As Athens has become a vitally strategic city, I install tribune Secundus Salvidienus there as governor.
Tribune Quintus Libo recieves his chirurgeon and departs from Oduba to Luvavum to take command on a legion.
Tribune Flavius Pacuvius is on his way to Cispine Gaul.
Legate Titus Vatinius has taken up governorship of Segestica, which has been infiltrated by enemy agents and is about to revolt.
Tribune Cornelius Saturninus takes up command of the Legio I Italia Victrix at the river crossing of Oduba.

The assault on Eastern Greece begins. Praetor Tiberius Coruncanius and his Field Army I storm the city of Tylis and defeat the powerful army of the Ptolemaic empire.



Tribune Numerius Aureolus and the Legio V Alaudae cause the Fall of Byzantium. The Greek Cities are now reduced to the Greek City.


On the northern front, tribune Cornelius Saturnius and the Legio I Italia Victrix destroy a Thracian army that was threathening the river crossing near Oduba. He becomes the talk of the local population.


Our battle fleet has regrouped and is closing in on the Cartheginian Fleets near Melite.

Legate Publius Pansa takes over command as he stands ready to complete the Eastern Greece Blitzkrieg by capturing the last Ptolemaic town in Eastern Greece, Maronia.