Any ideas?

[Rodion Romanovich]

Good suggestion, Julius Caesar vs Vercingetorix (especially if the players get to be Vercingetorix)

A few other ideas of the roman period that come to mind:
- Carthage 218 BC (just before Hannibal's legendary Alp crossing, with the option of choosing another grand strategy and see what the outcome of that would be - could Hannibal have won?)
- 117 AD revolt in Cyrenaica (playing as the rebels. A 200,000 man strong roman army is nearby in Mesopotamia, but if Egypt can be captured quickly enough - it is easy defensive ground, and if Egypt is held long enough both the city of Rome and this 200,000 man army could be starved to a critical point where Rome might accept some form of surrender. Additionally Mesopotamia, Dacia and Cyprus are revolting simultanously to your revolt)
- Spartacus vs Pompey (with the challenge of finding a way to gain a lasting, strategic victory out of a temporarily tactically successful gladiator revolt)
- the Second and Third Samnite wars 327 BC - 290 BC (playing as Rome - at a crucial time of roman military reforms to cope with the difficult Samnite opposition that is superior at fighting in mountain terrain)
- Roman attempt at conquering Germania (beginning after the Teutoburg forest massacre, the desperate shortage of troop recruitment material means that victory isn't enough - your losses must be much lower than those suffered by the Germanic tribes led by Arminius)