The Will of the Senate - Senate Deliberations III

[Braden]

That sounds like a plan Consul. However, I would have preferred that the Consular Legion be stationed in Mid-Gaul perhaps rather than isolated on an Island.

An invasion by Iberia will come via our Gallic lands and whilst a harassing force located on Palma is an excellent plan, I would feel better if our main reserve or rather our active force was located nearer the epicentre of the issue.

….see, I can show caution too.

I still hold with your original plan for Palma in its completeness.

[Mount Suribachi]

Perhaps that might be Consul Servius's leaving present to the Senate? - an invasion force for Iberia, rather like former Consul Lucius Aemilius left an invasion force for Afrika

[econ21]

[SENATE SPEAKER]: The deadline for motions has passed. A poll will be posted shortly.

[Lucjan]

I would like to see that my departing present to the senate is the security of this nation on all fronts. But I have some other things in mind.

To clarify one thing with the Iberian plan, some interworkings and revisions with the logistics of other plans have set us up for the following scenario.

Provided Iberia does nothing drastic before the end of my consular term, we will have the following defences aligned on Iberia's borders.

Quintus Libo and his current praetorian legion on the Luvavum bridge.

Augustus Verginius, who I would like to grant a tribune, in Gergovia with his praetorian legion.

Quintus Naevius, who I would like replaced with a lower house senator, will be updated to a consular sized legion, as his force is at the center of Iberia's northern lands.

I will be leading a praetorian sized legion to take and hold Palma, from which we could launch a naval invasion of Carthago Nova, a significant Iberian stronghold in the south.

Oppius Aemilius, with a praetorian legion, will take and hold Tingi by the end of my consulship, this will give us the ability to strike at Gades, Iberia's southernmost settlement, and a close one to Carthago Nova, allowing us to relieve each other should anything unexpected occur.

Five seperate points from which Iberia would have to contend all at once, two of which it will most certainly not expect to be assaulted from.

This is the plan for Iberian deterance or war that I would leave the senate with at the end of my consulship.

[Glaucus]

A good plan Consul. Those forces are more then enough to counter-assualt Iberia should she try anything against us. In fact, I think if you put is in the position you say you will, I will move for war with Iberia next session...

[Mount Suribachi]

An excellent plan Consul, to hit Iberia with a succession of powerful, near-simultaneous blows. They will have lost the war before they realise its even started!

[Lucjan]

Thank you Oppius, I only wish my mind for personal relations were as great as my mind for military strategy. Were it, I may not have such trouble with losing the good graces of the senate, or in finding myself a suitable wife.