The Exodus to Ireland, a Lusotannan AAR
Chapter 1: The beginning of our Reign
Brothers, we have come from across the sea to this island inhabited by our kin of old. Yet they fail to recognize us, so we are forced to fight them.
After we landed on the island we burned the ships, so that we may never look back, and only look forward to a new future in this foreign land where we are the strongest.
We arrived in the spring of 257 BCE, and after the ship burning, our smoke was seen even from a day's march inland.
Slowly we began to find our way around this strange land, our scouts went off in any direction, and our geographer attempted to draw a map of their findings.
We went to several small villages, attempting to gain their loyalties, and most gave it after they saw the array of our host, our men were clad in strong bronze and iron, our spears and armor reflected the sun, it was truly a sight to behold. To these men we were God's.
The chieftain of one village told us of the strongest village in the entire southern half of the island and even provided men to show us its location, he spoke that it had conquered most of the southern half of the island and its defeat was the key to control of the island, it was called Ivernis.
We marched west towards Ivernis and besieged the city, It was defended by a small wooden palisade, but it was thus far the only defense we had seen thus far.
So, during the spring of 256 BCE we surrounded the village with the intent of starving them out.
After a long and tedious siege, one winter morning they sallied forth from their wooden palisades and were eager for battle after the long months of waiting inside.
Our men utterly destroyed them with our rain of Javelins, of which they had no resistance due to their apparent lack of any armor what so ever. But these men were different from the men we had seen before, they carried large shields to make up for their lack of armor and carrier large swords which were extremely well crafted, alas, their strength was not enough, and they were all slaughtered to the last man.
We were merciful to the village, and stayed our sword hands after the battle to the population, they were reluctant at first to accept our rule, but soon they learned to love us, for we had much to teach them in smith craft and in warfare.
So, by 255 BCE we had gained control of the southern half of the island, and our scouts and our geographer had at last mapped the entire island at remarkable speed. Alas the north was uncontrolled and more well strengthened against our control.
We stayed in Ivernis and consolidated control of the southern half of the island, teaching the population our ways in the smith and in the spear, and in our worship of the God's and of trade, and the village soon grew into bliss.
Our scouts had wandered onto what appeared to be another large island to the east, and they wandered along the coast until they had reached a large village of a people called the Casse, these men were similar to the Belgae that resided in Ivernis, and were stout warriors. We quickly gained trade rights with them in the summer.
A surprise, occurred in the winter, a Casse fleet had landed upon our southern shore, an embassy we thought, here to negotiate an alliance of sorts, but we were ever aware of their movements, for far too often in our homeland had we been betrayed by who we thought were our closest friends. We had decided the best move would be to call up some militia from the villagers.
During this time also the Casse had besieged Ratae, another large village on the isle they call Britannia.
By spring of 253 BCE they had captured the village and increased their influence by a large amount, but we had not been idle either, we had strengthened the wooden palisades into a larger, more organized wall of stout wood.
So, we watched the Casse embassy wander in our province, until one day in the winter of 253 BCE they wandered into the north, our scouts lost them, and even our scouts in Britannia heard nothing of their return, they were lost, swallowed by the north.
Finally after any possible threat had left, we moved our army with the militia raised northward, with the intent on capturing the northern half of the island and gaining control of the entire island, our army had camped at the northern most point of our territory.
Meanwhile in Ivernis we had improved the population to a point where we could recruit decent spearmen of their stock, Godillic Spearmen, they are highly skilled in the use of the spear and even though their shield is smaller then ours, they are just as skilled with their defense. So with an area for Clan's to gather, we had started to improve it into a larger area for the training of the young men for our army.
In the summer of 252 BCE our army moved northward again and engaged a large army commanded by an enemy general, his force was composed of entirely skirmisher's, similar to warfare in Iberia, these men were hardy, and threw their Javalins with great force, yet that was not enough, and our army utterly defeated their's, although our militia had taken considerable casualties in the engagement, and so, we marched to and fro, gaining the support of the surrounding villages all throughout the year.
Our power in southern Ireland was consolidated, our army was strong, and we were ambitious, yet the burning desire in our hearts was not revealed yet to any.
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