the greatest defeat

[maximus overlord]

it was in that good damn awful year 234 bc when i flavius julii decided to take on the last village of the gauls i come to the age of 74 and thought that after a decade of peace and neagociating id rather die in combat than to die old and sick in my bed my beatufil wife octavius had died almost teen years ago and the sorrow still struck my heart with angering pain beacouse i know to this day of my doom that it was my wagging war to the gauls that really killed her not old age so i was taking from seggesta five legions of heavy cavvalry and rode off in to my faith and my god what a faith first i sieged the small punny villgae ofcourse i had been scouting there to see if there was any heavy ressistance i thought i had it all in the clear when all of the sudden as i was cheering my men to do their outmost all hell broke lose and i was attack'ed from all sides with punny peasents with pitch forks what could i possible do i try'id to out flank them and it was a halfway succses but the number where just to many i must say that i deply reagret that i didnt get any help from rome at all as i have beed going unclear with the senate after i moved an army leaded by my grandsons close to their visinity they wasnt happy and now i stand here i managed to get into town but i doubt i will ever get out if anyone gets this message then say i flavius julli died in an atempt to make the world a better place to live god rid us all of those stinking gauls

[Roman_Man#3]

R.I.P
Flavius Julius
?-234 bc

[The Stranger]

dude... Come again?...

how could a army of peasants defeat 5 legions of heavy cav?

[bedlam28]

I like these personal accounts.

Maybe it was just Flavius that was taken down, rather than 5 Units of Cav.A pitchfork in the wrong place can halt even a family member if the Gods wish it so!! But the shame of being defeated by Peasants after all those years of conquor, perhaps it was better his wife was dead already.

Nice account Max, but please a full stop or comma sometimes my good man, and keep the stories coming.

[Specialist290]

...As well as capitalization and paragraphs, I should add.

Interesting account, BTW. The same thing, roughly, happened to me once (at the beginning of my current Julii campaign, incidentally)--I was storming Patavium around 268 BC w/ a roughly 600-man army led by my faction leader. I took the town and only lost 20-odd men, but unfortunately my faction leader was one of them.

[Digital]

dude... Come again?...

how could a army of peasants defeat 5 legions of heavy cav?

Maybe the peasants are fighting the calvalry in the forest?

[Roman_Man#3]

after reading the other replies, i have to ask this question. what difficulty setting? an army of peasents killing 5 legions of cavalry seems a bit farfetched, unless you were playing on maybe v/h. im not to sure about that either though, i havent played v/h yet. tha might happen on h, but i seriously doubt it anything less than that.