PRIMVS INTER PARES: A HISTORY OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC, 140 BCE--14 AD

[kambiz]

That's about as far as I got with the messages kambiz. I may try to extend them in the future, but I've not got the time right this minute.

Oh I hope you extend them till the end of the mod time line ,As Imo these messages were one of the best EB1 addition Please more of them Teleklos

[Tarkus]

Teleklos -- I must agree with kambiz...the "Year in History" piece of 1.0 is outstanding! I'd love to see this expanded beyond the present state...but (as always) understand the time constraints...any way to gather together a team to do this?

(This seems out of place in this thread...perhaps a dedicated new one should be started elsewhere?)

[Tarkus]

Great read, Zak!! Keep it coming...really enjoying this.

[Meneldil]

Teleklos -- I must agree with kambiz...the "Year in History" piece of 1.0 is outstanding! I'd love to see this expanded beyond the present state...but (as always) understand the time constraints...any way to gather together a team to do this?

Yeah, one of my favorite new features.

[Bootsiuv]

Fantastic work....I especially like all of the informative maps....very cool. Please continue, if work permits.

[Geoffrey S]

I'm loving this AAR. Well-written, and shows just how much difference it can make if you roleplay carefully and take the time to allow other factions to build up.

[Zaknafien]

Ephesus
Caria, Asia
(a.d. III Non. Sextilis)
614 Ab Urbe Condita

"Fire!" The centurion said calmly, lowering his rod with a wave. The engineers released their machines at once, and a line of torsioned ballistae released their charges, sending bolts streaming sulfurous fumes of smoke behind them sailing through the evening skies, arcing upwards silently and seeming to hang for a moment until they crashed into the battlements of the city on the hillside with a cloud of smoke and debris. The noise was barely audible, from this distance.

Ephesus had sided with the Antigonids, and thus it must fall; so said Cornelius Scipio, Proconsul. For the past two months since landing south of Halicarnassos, the Roman general and his legati had sent their legion and its auxilliaries against city after city, capturing strongpoint after strongpoint of the Macedonian king Antigonos.

The Senate of Rome was impatient; it seemed every week a messenger arrived, with inquiries into the status of Scipio's prosecution of the war. Scipio thought them all fools, who wouldnt know the first thing about leading troops into war. It was not as if you could capture one city and the entire countryside would suddenly call you master.

A dozen cities had he brought to the Roman side in his two months on the shores of Asia, half of them through negotiation, the others through devastation and military assault. His army, the soldiers of the I Legio SPQR, a newly formed legion of capite censi soldiers, and the only of its kind to have seen action thus far (though the II Legion SPQR was en route to Asia with Blasio, he knew), had preformed its duties admirably, for being men of no value or worth. Now their life was the army, and he was proud of them for showing themselves Romans true, to a man.

Overall, the war was going well. Cinna had informed him of his defeat in Thrace, but reinforcement legions were coming from Macedonia to strengthen him before his eventual move into Asia.

He had not heard from his Legate Sulla in some time, however..

[Leão magno]

It could become a very good book!

[Long lost Caesar]

amazing AAR, love how youve made it a historical story more than anything. keep working...work...HARDER!

[Leão magno]

Pity we lost the third punic war!!!! please ZaKnafien consider a punic wars history in future