Post your EB empires!

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Well the Genos Klerios' (red-brownish faction) italian armies are made up mostly by Hastati and Rorarii, so it will be like conquering Roma again.

[Fulminatrix]

im new this is my empire, im playin the romani

206 b.c. i hit marian reforms and 203 b.c. i got my first cohors reforma unit.


180 bc gauls, germans, and the ptolomies are wiped out and the casse are on a last stand.


172 b.c. my allied buffer state the AS turned hostile i respnded with invasion and captured persopolis, same time 3 legions are saling their way to conquer the sabaens of arabia.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Welcome to the forums Fulminatrix!

That's a good looking empire you have there! Are the Getai and Sauromatae still neutral or allied towards you?

~Fluvius

[Fulminatrix]

Welcome to the forums Fulminatrix!

That's a good looking empire you have there! Are the Getai and Sauromatae still neutral or allied towards you?

~Fluvius

the getai were my allies but they turned nuetral once i was at war the AS since they are allies 3 of us formed a triumvirate before. The sauromatae has been always been neutral they at war with the getai. And the getai are dangerously getting stronger i might take the first strike at them soon.

[Fulminatrix]

163 b.c. i got the romani victory conditions, the expansion stops for now until i get to the augustan reforms. It's a long way to 125 b.c. -_-



anyway i think the augustan reforms should be moved to 135-133 b.c. because that is the time when tiberius gracchus proposed the land reforms.

forgot to add marcus germanicus died just 1 turn before the victory. :( he fought more than a 100 battles and haven't lost. He died peacfully somewhere in western russia.

He was vanquiser of the galli, britons, dacians and conqueror of germania. he was 69 years old.

[SwissBarbar]

The Augustan Reforms don't just appear in 125 BC, do they? There are several requirements to achieve.

[Fulminatrix]

i already got 2 young people with high ambitions a 22 year old and a 25 year old Im sure one of them will make to 125 b.c. to make the refroms.

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

Yep, it's me again, and I'm back with a new, albeit currently small, empire. I've been playing musical factions the past... well, pretty much since my last post, and the games I have stuck with longer than a few dozen turns turned sour very quickly, almost invariably thanks to Arche Seleukia's uncanny ability to sense when my capital is ripe for the taking. Anyway, without further a-do...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

As one can see, I'm playing as Koinon Hellenon, and compared to my previous attempts at this faction, it has been... rather eventful, to say the least.

Near the beginning, I had to pull of some three or four heroic victories to prevent Athens from falling to Makedonia, since Pyrrhus meandered off to have a tea party on the Ilyrian Coast or something. Unfortunately, I only have a screenshot of the very first one...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Admittedly, the Heroic Victory above was a bit of a fluke, as the arrow towers inflicted a good portion of the casualties on the main army, and all of the casualties on their reinforcements. The later Heroic Victories were open field ones, although the numbers were close enough that the battles didn't spawn a famous battle site.

Later, I allied with Epeiros, as, well, the enemy of my enemy is friend, yeah? After I allied with them, things were peaceful while Epeiros and Makedonia more or less stalemated each other. Then, after about five or so years, Pyrrhus decided to return from his tea party and lay siege to Thermon, which I regret to say put an end to anything resembling peaceful relations between us until fairly recently.

Having built up a considerable treasury, I drafted an army and got to work bringing the rest of Greece under my sway, starting with Demetrias. The battle for Demetrias was... anti-climactic. In fact, that city had an extremely small garrison, so I just auto-resolved. Next came Thermon, which previously possessed a full (or near full) garrison that had been depleted to next to nothing by repeated attacks from Pyrrhus. Again, I auto-resolved it.

Next, I went for the capital of Epeiros, Ambrakia, but on my way, I was intercepted by two armies; one with two and a half thousand troops, and one with three and a half thousand. Thankfully, I held the terrain advantage and pulled off two heroic victories with acceptable losses, although my army was at about 2/3 its initial strength by the time I reached Ambrakia. Unfortunately, the Epeirote capital possessed next to no garrison--one of the armies I had defeated during my journey had been its garrison--so I auto-resolved. After this, I hunkered down for about half a decade to build up my infrastructure and reinforce the garrisons of my three new towns.

Once I stabilized my new regions and replenished my army, I proceeded to take to take... uh... the Epeirote city directly north of Ambrakia, and the Makedonian Capital, Pella. No real notable battles, since Pyrrus by this time was busy fighting the Romani, and the bulk of Makedonia's forced were concentrated in the Balkans.

Since taking those regions, the only military activity on my part have been defensive responses to Epeirote and Makedonian incursions into my lands... and pre-empting Ptolemaioi invasions directed towards Rhodos, which they really seem to want. Invade, get repelled, sue for peace... rinse and repeat every half a decade.

Unfortunately, the relative peace I've maintained since taking Pella was shattered shortly after Pontos took Byzantium. Despite years of good relations, they immediately invaded me with two stacks--one full and the other partially filled. However, they had the misfortune of clashing with the veteran army from the wars with Epeirote and Makedonia, which would be the very same army in my first screenshot. They were, of course, repelled.

Other than Pontos, I am currently at war with... hrm... Arche Seleukia, Makedonia, and the Ptolemaioi. Epeiros agreed to a ceasefire with a bit of... monetary persuasion, and shortly after the hostilities between our countries came to an end, Epeiros became a protectorate of the Romani, which is an unnerving development, as I was using Epeiros as a buffer state. The Romani may be my allies, but it's only a matter of time before they turn their attention eastward.

Still, I'm going to keep 'em around until they activate the March of Time, so if they declare before that happens, I'll just fight a defensive war until it does.

[Cute Wolf]

Just roleplaying Pontos, and wonder, why are the victory condition of them is creating empire that intruding far into Baltic lands rather than reviving persian empire...



eating up the Arche in a blitz were a hard feat in the beginning, but when it comes down to antioch, basically that will be just throwing panda Phalangitai and Pontic Thorakitai down all the way to Persia.... as well as spam many archers in the way.... ^^

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Wow Fluvius would be proud of that blitz!

Oh and Pontic VC's are as they are I believe because many of their later leaders saw themselves as defenders of Hellenism more than Persian influenced. Still a mixture of the two but with their eyes towards the West a bit more than the East. Remember Mithradates planned to unite Hellas against Rome but AFAIK Pontic forces never ventured much further east than Armenia or Syria.

[vartan]

Wow Fluvius would be proud of that blitz!

Oh and Pontic VC's are as they are I believe because many of their later leaders saw themselves as defenders of Hellenism more than Persian influenced. Still a mixture of the two but with their eyes towards the West a bit more than the East. Remember Mithradates planned to unite Hellas against Rome but AFAIK Pontic forces never ventured much further east* than Armenia or Syria.

Yup.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Oops, good catch. Dumb typo while rushing. Fixed

[Cute Wolf]

Wow Fluvius would be proud of that blitz!

that wasn't exactly blitz with extreme efficiency though, I was lucky that those ptolemaioi are busy fighting AS, and they just ceasefire too late, when I allready took antioch and some cities nearby simultaneously (they are ill garrisoned, even with pantodapoi-haploi-peltastai-skirmisher-slingers army, no one will got difficulty conquering cities that was only guarded by one or two phalangitai, especially when they are too dumb to let themself eat the bait, and left city square to caught some depleted skirmishers, only to found out that their city square was taken by some sort of cavalry in 3 minutes (I know that was silly exploit, but I admit doing that when I took Pergamon, Antioch, and Babylon, maybe some others also, but in the east, after taking whole mikhra asia, and not conquer rebel stacks separating me and hayasdan, as well taking antioch, my economy was getting better and I can finally spam countless numbers of panda phalangitai, pontic thorakitai, as well as churning out galatikoi kuraothoroi for heavy line infantry), and a phalangitai half stack were just stand in north levant, beating ptolemaic stacks by stacks that was churning endless galatians, led by 9 star Herakleothes that lead initial Mikhra asia blitz (9 star generals are really awesome in field battle), and after some times, the Ptolemy was looks like to be broken flat, and they ask for peace and 7XXXX minai for that (just recently sacking halicarnassos, including taking down collosus, taking down arthemis temple for economic boost, as well as destroying several wonders in the process), I just barely reply that with "become my protectorate instead and we'll gave you the money", and they accept that (stupid ptolies), and of course, that gave me a big boost in economy from that protectorate thingies, and they just broken more and more, so that's why in the last 5 or 6 years, I manage to sonquer almost all the remnants of persia. I'm so lucky (but every roleplayer will now complain for that barbaric acts I've done)

[Jebivjetar]

My mighty Pahlava, 144BC



1) I destroyed Saba just recently, they send stack after stack on me, and sacked population of Charax: this is our Persian revenge!
2) AS is so weak that all they can do is send some fullstacks of pandotapoi: i destroy those armies with 3 8-chevroned units of pandotapio phalangite on autoresolve.
3) Pontos attacked me so i invaded them: Nikaia is their last settlement which i don't want to conquer because KH declared war on me and Nikaia is a perfect buffer zone between Pahlava and KH
4) Hai attacked me, now they're my protectorate
5) I'm powerful as hell

[Fluvius Camillus]

Wow Fluvius would be proud of that blitz!
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Taken from the first page:

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From EB1.2, the Pontic Empire, currently paused.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

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~Fluvius

Mine is not max efficient either, but you guys decide which blitz is better.

~Fluvius

[Fulminatrix]

i finaly got the augustan reforms i have been waiting on this for months feels good!!! The selecuids and pahlava and sauromate are gone only 2 factions left the saka and bactrians they are warring each other for a very long time now. Im just leaving them alone and slowly focus on building up my new areas and replacing the old marian cohorts with imperial ones.



my first praetorian guards fresh from the boot camp.

[vartan]

Is the grammatical and orthographical sub-mod for EB still active/around? Look at the Avgvstvs trait and read the first line. It reads:

This man is the ruler of the Roman empire, one of the most powerful man in the world.

What it should say is the following:

This man is the ruler of the Roman empire, one of the most powerful men* in the world.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Is the grammatical and orthographical sub-mod for EB still active/around? Look at the Avgvstvs trait and read the first line. It reads:

What it should say is the following:

What about:

"and later it become the most important of the titles"

~Fluvius

[vartan]

Tiberius already begun to use it when dealing with foreign affairs and later it become the most important of the titles that designated a man as Emperor of the Imperium Romanum.

Corrected:

Tiberius already begun to use it when dealing with foreign affairs and later it became* the most important of the titles that designated a man as Emperor of the Imperium Romanum.

Orthographical. I wish I had that thread bookmarked.

[Mulceber]

Ok, so after 3 months of schoolwork (during most of which I had no access to a computer capable of playing EB), I'm finally back to finish off my AAR of the Roman Republic. For those of you who might need a refresher, here's the linky to my last post, which ended with the Triumph of D. Iulius Caesar after his victory in the civil war. Anyway, here goes...

Endgame: Or, How to Win Friends and Destroy the Republic

“He's a tyrant, Sulla,” the first man stated bluntly.

“And yet he's been remarkably benevolent...” his companion scoffed at the assertion.

“Our ancestors ordained that there should be two consuls, to be replaced yearly. They founded our constitution in this way to prevent any one man from establishing a tyranny over the Roman People!”

“We've had Consuls serve successive terms of office before. Remember Lucullus?” the companion posed his point as a rhetorical question. Of course they both remembered Lucullus, the popular politician who had prosecuted Rome's final war against the Carthaginians and had reformed the army to allow the proletariat to serve.

“Lucullus also had too much power, but even he did not win his consulship in a civil war and maintain it for himself for five consecutive years,” the first man inveighed. “Caesar is destroying the Res Publica that has been handed down to us from our ancestors. He is sneering at the customs of our ancient race.” His voice was almost a yell, his handsome features, only slightly wrinkled by age, were distorted with righteous anger.

“But look at his deeds,” the second man's argument was faltering. “He has expanded Roman control to encompass the entirety of Gaul and has established colonies of citizens there. He has created hundreds of jobs for the proles in his building projects – why his Amphitheater alone employed over two thousand of the plebs.”

“You would barter away your constitution and your liberty for a few colonies and an Amphitheater?” The first man asked incisively. “I know you better than that, Sulla. Yours is an ancient name. The good men will rally around you. You must kill Caesar.”

“Your name isn't any less ancient than mine,” Numerius Cornelius Sulla responded defensively. “Your ancestor was Appius Claudius Caecus. If you hate Caesar so much, why don't you kill him? For that matter, if you hate him, why did you help him achieve power in the first place?”

“When I allied myself with Caesar, I did so in the mistaken belief that he was a good man,” he responded smoothly. “If I had any inkling that he would keep the consulship as his private possession, I would never have done what I did. As for why I do not act myself, I am too old. Revolution must come from the younger generation, from your generation.”

“Are you so sure this is for the good of the Res Publica?” Sulla asked. “If we kill him, who's to say another won't rise to replace him?”

“Fortune favors the bold.”

“I'll think about it,” Sulla said hesitantly.

“We'll talk more about it later,” the first man said delicately.

The rule of Decimus Iulius Caesar Gallicus had indeed been unprecedented. After his triumph in the Fall of 125 he had kept his legions camped just outside the pomerium, a move whose message to the Senate could not have been clearer: Caesar's will would be obeyed, or there would be consequences. Nevertheless, there were no deaths in his consulship, and the conqueror of Gaul made a general amnesty one of his first directives as Sole Consul. After this he began a vigorous program of public works, including a fresh aqueduct, a rehabilitation of the perennially seedy Subura and the construction of the monumental Amphitheatrum Iulium. Rome was changing, this much was plain, although no one knew what was to come.

In Fall of that Year, Caesar ran for Consul again, a move which caused much resentment among the Senators. He won easily, the spoils of his Gallic Campaign and the power of the Caesarian Party greasing the wheels of public opinion. This victory was accompanied by radical new legislation which gave Caesar the right to hold the Consulship without a colleague for the next decade. The Senate was uproarious until Gallicus calmly asked who would like to speak against the motion. The Curia fell silent, and the Senate meekly voted for the bill.

During this time period, C. Claudius Pulcher came to the fore as one of the Consul's chief lieutenants, and was awarded another Praetorship in 124. Caesar's other most prominent supporter, A. Cornelius Scipio, was rewarded for his loyalty in the Civil War with the Proconsulship of Gaul, even though he had never served as Consul in Rome. Over the remaining years of the 120's BCE, resentment, particularly among the Senate, steadily grew. If Caesar noticed, he must not have cared. Business and politics continued as usual, and Pulcher accrued greater and greater power as Caesar's subordinate. Some advised Caesar that Pulcher was too ambitious to be trusted, most especially the Consul's twenty-year-old son, Caius, but the trusting old man dismissed such fears.

On the Kalends of September, 120 BCE, Caesar was making his way to a meeting of the Senate. Pulcher was not with him, but instead had sent a message claiming to be incapacitated by arthritis. Caesar had sent a note wishing him well and was now deep in conversation with Nm. Cornelius Sulla, and his brother Titus, and surrounded by a throng including P. Papirius Crassus, the brothers Manius and Titus Cornelius Scipio, their cousin Servius, A. Iulius Iulus and K. Iunius Silanus. As the crowd reached the steps of the Curia, the brothers Scipio, standing behind Gallicus drew daggers and stabbed him in the back, piercing his kidneys. As the old man screamed, Silanus and Iulus both drove their own knives into his stomach, Servius Scipio stabbed him in the side while Crassus and Titus Sulla pierced his chest. Finally, Numerius Sulla stabbed the Consul in the neck. Covered in blood, Caesar slowly fell on the steps.

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The assassins shouted their victory to the surrounding crowd, but were met with stunned silence. The first to make any movement were the attendants and friends of the Consul, who ran into the Senate house and broke up the furniture into clubs. They then returned outside and threw themselves at the murderers, beating them ruthlessly with the remnants of the Senatorial furniture. At this point all hell broke loose as the surrounding crowds joined the fray, some fighting for the assassins, others joining with Caesar's friends. Caesar himself lay dying on the Senate steps, all but ignored as civil violence broke out all around him.

Several of the assassins died during the fray, but by luck, most of them escaped the mob. Nm. Cornelius Sulla found himself close to the house of Pulcher. Seeking shelter inside, he was greeted by Caesar's lieutenant. “It's done,” Sulla said, panting. “I've followed your advice and killed the tyrant. The Res Publica is safe.”

“Excellent,” Pulcher smiled. “What has the reaction among the plebs been?”

“Some of them are a bit angry,” Sulla replied. “But they will realize that it was all for the best.”

“I cannot tell you how much that pleases me,” Pulcher moved forward and embraced the younger Sulla in a hug. Sulla began to return the gesture, but suddenly felt a stab of pain as Pulcher smoothly slid a concealed knife between his ribs. Sulla gasped audibly. “You have saved the Res Publica.” Pulcher stabbed again. “The rule of law has been restored.” He stabbed one last time and then let Sulla drop to the floor. Turning to his freedman he said dismissively, “put the body some place where no one will find it.”

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Excellent writing, my friend! Let's hope those nasty assassins get what they deserve...

[Mulceber]

Oh they will...as I'm playing it right now, about half of them are about to fight a battle against Caesar's son. -M

[Biowulf]

My current Romani campaign, 150 B.C.




From East to west: The Carthaginians are the new Iberians, they almost went crazy in Gaul but I took the African cities and gave the Aedui a lot of money every turn.
The Lusotannan are down to just Burdigala after a hard-fought war between them and Carthage.
The Aedui killed the Arverni early on and had the Sweboz as protectorates once before. They would have died against the large Carthage stacks, but diplomats intervened and saved them. As of now they are beginning to push into Iberia against Carthage.
The Casse are sitting pretty on their island
The Sweboz lost the war against the Aedui and now they sit and try to take on the rebel super stacks. A couple settlements revolted to them but they haven't expanded or tried to attack anyone.
Me: I took Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia early on, then went to war against all the Greeks. I started with Epeiros, then invaded the Koinon by sea, and the Maks betrayed our alliance. Only Epeiros remains on the Greek mainland, and the Koinon died before I wanted them to. Then I bummed around for a bit, building up and watching the world until the Carthies attacked through Gaul at which point I launched one failed campaign into Africa. My second attempt went far better and after a 14 year war I kicked them out. Once I took Lepki, the Seleukids betrayed me and now I might just send some armies over and take Egypt from them.
The Getai have been good neighbors and are former allies. They went south against the rebels then north against the Sauro's and have kept them in check along with Hayasdan.
Epeiros was once mighty, but no longer. They sit in Byzantion mourning their former empire.
Makedonia was forced down to just Mytilene, but now they've grown. They single-handedly took out Pontos and I had to stop them from killing off Hayasdan once before. I couldn't be bothered to save the Armenians a second time, but they might just expand and take the lands east of the steppes.
The Ptolemies no longer exist thanks to the Seleukids. They were beaten down to just Salamis and launched failed naval invasions that surprised the hell out of me. They managed to take Rhodes for a couple turns before I nabbed it back. Then they lost their last family member and disappeared.
The Seleukids are a somewhat comeback story. They lost Antioch before even a year was out, but from Damascus and Edessa they took it back and rampaged throughout the Ptolemaic lands, squashing them, the rebels, and the Parthians. Right now I'm at war with them and have to bribe a lot of armies coming my way.
Sauromatae are surviving only because of rebellions and luck. They look to be on their last legs because they can't even expand anymore.
Hayasdan is on its last legs as well, losing both Armavir and Mtishketa in the same turn. hopefully they will survive a bit longer because I think Makedonia is coming east at me.
Parthia has stayed alive because of rebellions and never has more than 4 or 5 settlements to its name. I expect they'll survive for a while yet, but they'll never thrive.
Baktria! my favorite faction in this campaign. they were down to 3 regions, 2 indian and 1 eastern, but they fought their way back into supremacy against the Saka. Once Baktria regained their capital the Saka had no chance and were slowly beaten down. I thought they would end up like Parthia, but no such luck. They were killed off while I was fighting in Africa.
Edit: The Sabaens are holding off the Seleukids by virtue of rebellion and large homeland stacks. The Sele's managed to threaten the Saba capital once or twice but nothing came of it.

So there you have it. It's been fun and I've been moving slowly trying not to kill of factions myself, although I may have to in order to keep my borders safe. I'm at a point now where I'm not sure where to go, so if anyone has a suggestion I'm willing to hear it.

[Mulceber]

In the immortal words of Cato the Elder:

"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam." [Therefore I urge that Carthage ought to be destroyed.] -M

[Paltmull]

Is the grammatical and orthographical sub-mod for EB still active/around? Look at the Avgvstvs trait and read the first line. It reads:

What it should say is the following:

Don't forget

He has made an end to the countless civil wars and gave the roman people peace and unity again

which should be

He has made an end to the countless civil wars and given the roman people peace and unity again

or

He made an end to the countless civil wars and gave the roman people peace and unity again

and

for this deeds the senate[...]

which should be

for these deeds the senate[...]

or

for this deed the senate[...]

[Cute Wolf]

Taken from the first page:
Mine is not max efficient either, but you guys decide which blitz is better.
~Fluvius

yeah, taking stone walled cities after cities in Hellas proper is notably harder than assaulting wooden walled cities that scattered along the north Nomadic lands, you still better than me fluvius

but 10 years could made a big difference, looking for now secure Asia minor that could be relied to pump out Pontic Thorakitai and Galatian Nudists every turns

[Mulceber]

Caius Iulius Caesar surveyed the battle unfolding in front of him calmly, affected only by the slightest hint of apprehension. It was impossible to tell which side the struggle was favoring. It wasn't just the dust being thrown up by the two armies, although that was not an insignificant factor. Rather, it was the fact that both sides were alike in almost every way. Both were of Roman - or rather, Italian - extraction. Both were fighting in the cohortal formation of the Roman legions. It was even likely that some of the soldiers on his side were the brothers or cousins of those on the other side. Looking at these soldiers of common blood fighting, it was difficult to tell who was winning and easy to forget why they were fighting in the first place.

They were fighting for the Res Publica, for the memory of his father, Decimus Iulius Caesar Gallicus. Rome had been shocked, two years ago, when the Consul Gallicus had been killed on the steps of the Curia on his way to a meeting of the Senate. The murder had been followed immediately thereafter by a massive street brawl between the supporters and enemies of his father and the battle had enveloped the whole crowd. Several of the assassins had been killed in the ensuing violence. Even though his body had not been found, it was assumed that their leader, Nm. Cornelius Sulla, must have been killed there as well, for he hadn't been seen since.

In the wake of the murder, Claudius Pulcher had offered to take Caius into his protection, citing his close friendship with the young man's late father. Caius had not trusted Pulcher while his father was alive, though, and saw no reason to trust the crafty old man now that Decimus was dead. Leaving his family's town house, he had fled to his father's legions, camped just outside the city. When he announced the murder to the troops they had been almost mutinous, pressuring Caius to let them
loose on the city to kill the murderers. After a moment's consideration, however, Caesar had demurred. At that point he still did not know everyone who had been involved, and without such knowledge, the situation would undoubtedly have turned into a bloodbath - a bad way for his father to be remembered and an even worse way to begin his political career.

Instead he had delivered a rousing speech and persuaded his father's legions to march north with him. From a distance he would be more able to observe political events as they unfolded, would be closer to his father's old friend, Aulus Scipio, and might even do some good for the Res Publica by discouraging a warband of Helvetii who seemed poised to attack the cities of Cisalpine Gaul. In his camp near Mediolanum, more news had come to him. Pulcher had taken charge of the four legions in Campania and the remaining assassins, realizing that the political situation was now well out of hand, had fled. T. Cornelius Sulla and T. Cornelius Scipio had departed from Brundisium for the east, most likely to seek the aid of N. Papirius Cursor, who was fighting a hard-won campaign for Mesopotamia against the Bactrian Empire, as well as the tribes of the Saba, who had just broke their treaty with Rome. Pulcher was said to be in pursuit, but with four legions he was unable to match the pace of the assassins. P. Papirius Crassus and K. Iunius Silanus, meanwhile, had crossed over to Libya, hoping for aid from Tb. Cornelius Scipio, who had just completed the conquest of Upper Egypt.

Now that the situation had revealed itself, Caesar's course of action was clear. He ordered his men to break camp and marched down to Capua where the Tyrhennian fleet was stationed. Using what little authority he had as Quaestor, he commandeered the fleet and set sail for Kyrene. And now he found himself in the plains east of the city, fighting Scipio and the two assassins.



“Let's get a closer look,” he nodded laconically to his bodyguards. Ahead and to his left he noticed a breach in the lines. Leading his men, he charged through the gap, finding himself behind enemy lines.



At this closer vantage it was easier, both to see where the fight was going, and to give aid to his soldiers. Selecting an area in the fighting where the enemy seemed to be particularly stretched, he charged their rear ranks, retreated again before they could respond, and repeated the process until the hapless legionaries panicked and fled. From here he signaled to the centuria he had just aided to go to the aid of their fellows who were still fighting, before he continued on to another weak point in the enemy line and battering them.



Before long, the enemy's center was in full rout, and, remembering Herodotus' description of Marathon, he took care to instruct his men not to pursue the routers, but instead to concentrate on the wings.



Fighting there too was harsh, as his men had just been charged by Kaeso Silanus' bodyguards. Diving in with his cavalry, Caius launched a vicious counter-strike against them, and they were slowly enveloped, caught between the cavalry and the infantry. The last to fall was Silanus, who was stabbed in the throat and fell off his horse to be trampled in the onslaught. “Sic semper sicariis,” [thus always to thugs] said Caius, more for his own benefit than for anyone else's. In the end, the battle was won. Stripped of his army, Tiberius Scipio surrendered himself to Caesar, who pardoned him and bestowed upon him many gifts in honor of his campaigns in Egypt before sending him home to Rome, alone but unharmed. P. Papirius Crassus was found dead, late in the day, apparently having chosen to fall on his sword. Of the enemy soldiers, Caius used some to recoup his own losses in the battle and sent the rest to Alexandria to serve as a garrison for Egypt.



Now it was time to march east, for two assassins remained, as well as two invading armies of easterners and a man who might be a friend, but just as well could be a foe.

[XSamatan]

The first shot is epic! Could you upload this in the original quality? Would be a great wallpaper...

XSamatan

[Jebivjetar]

Pahlava, 123BC

[Cute Wolf]

where is the Saby'n Jeb? if you kill em, why are u let their homelend empty? Sprinkling salt on Arab lands?