Sons of Atlantis - A Roman political uncorrect AAR
The Romans as bastards as you never saw them...
The Year in History 272 B.C.
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Huse Rules:Spoiler Alert, click show to read:I already use some house rules, every time i understand that the auto-regulamentation i was using is an House Rule, i will add it here, editing this section:
for now i can recall just this few ones:
- Never Retrain - Always Merge.
I didn't used it before, but im using it since the 0.81 relase.
I cant retrain my units, i can just merge a old unit with a new recruited one. If i have not enought money to buy a new unit to merge with an old ones, i cant replenish my units...
- Dont attack, if not Attacked -
I cant attack a faction, if they are Neutral with me.
- Never use Fog of War Cheat or some Money cheat -
i dont even know how to activate it, anyway i dont like it.
The only Cheat i will use is that to giving money to Parthia
- Always start a siege battle the turn after the siege started -
i cant wait more than a turn so to starve the city. If for a change, i forget a spy inside the city, i have to start the battle the same turn as i attack, with no siege engines.
- Only use the boats, if i can afford to have a fleet of respect, at last a pair of Triremes and Pentekontere - (So never do a naval invasion with just a Transport ship...), if i can not afford a Fleet of respect, i cant use boats. My only exception was the invasion of Africa by Attilius Regulus, but that was a sort of RPG thing, i knew i was sending Atilius to die.
- When doing Naval Invasion, i can not siege a town, as i disembark, but i have to wait a pair of turns in a fort near the town before besieging - So i have to feel all the difficulties of an army who starve while traveling for faraway campaigns.
Little Glossary of Table I: "One Flew Over the Eagle's Nest" :Spoiler Alert, click show to read:Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: άποθανεϊν θέλω ": it's from Satyricon: For I saw with my own eyes the very Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a bottle, and when the children asked, “Sibyl, what do you want?” she used to answer: “I want to die.”
Hasta: Spear
Hasta Pendula: Dangling hasta...
Tela Mittite: Throw your Missiles!
Nubes Telorum: Rain of Missiles (litteraly Clouds of Missiles)
Iaculamini: Throw it. ex-iaculari: throw it out.
Le petit Prince: is a short novel for child by Saint Exupery. Means "The Little Prince (Princeps)"
Tela, Nobis Hastae Sunt: we use Spears just as Missiles Weapons. (It was ironically refearred to the greek hoplites who use spear to melee fight)
Lacrime et Sanguine!: This is mixed up latin-italian, means "Tears and Blood!"
Frater: Brother, In the ancient Rome, boys and men used to call themselves little brother, little sister, when they were lovers.
proxima istanza: next chapter. (mixed latin-medieval italian)
Roma Victrix: roma victorious
Mater Suspiriorum, Mater Tenebrarum, Mater Lachrymarum: Mother of Sighs, Mother of Darkness/Shadows, Mother of Tears, it comes from "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow", a section of Thomas de Quincey's Suspiria de Profundis
Little Glossary of Table II: "The Crimson Crane" :
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:Per Antonomasia: As a Stone of Paragon
Effugite!: should mean "fleee!"
Equites Romani in Hostem Immittite!: Charge the Enemy!
Little Glossary of Table III: "Air of Freedom" and the Appendix to Table III "You see we are bor..." :
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Divitias alius fulvo sibi congerat auro/et teneat culti iugera multa soli,/quem labor adsiduus vicino terreat hoste - i try to badly translate it in english: other people could gain richness of yellow shining gold, and a lot of land, but could they have a very very bad moment when the enemy is coming!"
Little Glossary of Table IV: "The Ephesian Matron" :
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:O fortuna - from carmina burana: oh Fortune, in an unstable way, like the Moon, always growup, and then fade away, you are just a turning wheel
The ephesian matron - it's an inside story in the Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter, it was telled by the poetaster Eumolpo, it should be the more ancient source on this story, but it is known to be a recurrent theme from the Mylesian Fables. you can read the whole Satyricon, and the Ephesian Matron story inside, looking at this site, it's in english so i dont know if it is translated well, anyway it is for sure far better than my version of the ephesian matron story...
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/petr.../complete.html
also remember that the Satyricon is of the Imperial times, Petronio suicided under Nero Emperor, so im using it as a loose inspiration in our time-frame despite it is a later romance...
Little Glossary of Table V "Maybe a First Punic War" and Table VI "A Diogene of our own..." :
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Tela Exhaurite: "Fire all the Missiles"!
Bush Elephants/Forest Elephants: im not an animal expert so i confused the two kind of Elephants, actually what i called "Bush elephants" were "Forest Elephants" and what i called "Forest elephants" were "Bush Elephants"
Pretorian Guards/Equites Pretoriani: I tend to use this, but i should use Consular Guard, Pretorian Guard just means the Guard of the General in the Tent at the center of the Military Camp. But i dont know when it became commonly used (i suppose in imperial age?).
Table VI:
"If i can change, and you can change...": quote from b-movie Rocky IV???
The story of the purpled pallium: it's my "free" adaptation of the story told in the Satyricon, i used the Pallium, but there is a little mistake (call it again a poetical license). Infact, in real world, the Pallium is the common robe, while the Tunic is the more precious one, so to make the thing more precious, i should have used the Toga in place of the Pallium. So, when Encolpius says that the rusty countryside folks where almost putting their hands on their Tunics, it was not very correct, cause it is strange that 3 thieves guys who are fleeing, dress some tunics, they should have dressed some Pallia.
also in the Pic of Roma, i say the Senators met Atilius in the Forum?!?... ok another of those poetical licenses...
Little Glossary of Tables VII-A "That they may drink..." and VII-B "A World full of Love " :
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:Table VII-A:
The last man on the Earth: homage to the homonimous 1964 cult film by Ubaldo Ragona, that pic, is also an homage to the 1983 TV movie "The Day After" by Nicholas Mayer.
Table VII-B:
Parcite luminibus, seu vir seu femina fiat obvia it's from the Elegies of Albius Tibullus, i (badly) translated "keep your eyes away, men and women who meet me along the way..."
Trebius: Oscan/Latin name (Since it is a Campanian Cavalry guy)
Sociorum Equites: Cavalry of the Allies (friends, socii)
No Man's Land: homage to the Cult/Trash 1983 Film "Escape from the Bronx" (Fuga dal Bronx) by Enzo Castellari, also the last Battle pic in the table (that with Jagger), before the Battle Result Tab, is an homage to the scene when the "disinfectors" come to purificate with their flame-throwers the Bronx Buildings... "Leave the Bronx! Leave the Bronx!"
b/w picture in first battle screenshot is M.Bakunin
Artaserse go to West...
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So i cant start this aar.
I just can't wait for the moment when Roman bastards faced for the first time against Gallic naked fanatics 
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