The Cast
Quintus Victor (299 – 236)
270: Middle son of Lucius Julius.
267 – 266: Defeats Gauls several times in North Italy, culminating in capture of Mediolanum
264: Stops large Gallic army from crossing the Po river
259: Captures Patavium and settles as governor
244: Repels Dacian invaders from Patavium
243: Leads counter-attack against Dacia
241: Captures Segestica
238: Crushes large Dacian army outside Aquincum
237: Captures Aquincum, Dacian capital.
Elected leader of the Julians
236: Dies peacefully outside Lovosice, which is successfully taken from Dacia later in the year. Read more…
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204BC – Roma Victor
Quintus II finally reaches the front, having abandoned his infantry for extra speed, but all he gets to do is hunt down a Brutian family member that’s just hanging around. Galerius goes to the boot of Italy and sieges Croton, while Lentulus hits Tarentum on the heel. Meanwhile, a scipian fleet carrying 2000 troops is sunk in the Tyrhennian sea. Takes about fifteen separate attacks to sink a single ship, but still. I did it.
Tarentum sally with the aid of the last Brutian stack of troops. The pre-battle odds give me 1:2, I think this is meant to be one I lose. Screw that, while I may have no chance in a straight defence, they won’t be expecting an attack. As the troops leave the gates, my siege towers rumble up to their walls, and all the melee infantry I can spare rush in. Under heavy fire from the gate and just generally being heavily on fire from boiling oil, they force their way into the city. Racing to the square, they manage to engage the relieving cavalry before they can get to the square. The enemy pour through the streets as they realise the countdown timer for city possession has begun, but thanks to the dogs holding them for precious seconds, they can’t reach it in time. It’s almost a bloodless victory, but it is one of the best maneuvers I’ve ever pulled off. Daring can work occasionally. I’ve summarised it in this sexy, sexy tapestry.
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205 BC – The End is Nigh
Scythia are beginning to threaten my Eastern provinces, and after a few years of furious backpedalling, they finally manage to pin my troops down. It’s a heroic defence (seriously, got the little crossed swords and everything) with the infantry folding and routing and the bulk of the cavalry shot to pieces.
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207 BC – Weathering the Storm
Having finally managed to retrain his army, Quintus II moves south from Alesia to help out at the front line. Declaring war on Rome has basically alienated any supporters I had left, and the empire is hit with the double whammy of reduced trade income and widespread rioting. Campus Scythii just turfs out the garrison and swaps to Scythian control, who, grateful for this free city as they are, declare war. Spain besiege Osca, and the huge Brutian army attacks the bottleneck defenders, who are headed by Tertius Porcius, a recent addition to the family.
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208 BC – War with the Republic
With a title like that, you really need Star Wars yellow scrolly text to explain the scenario. Ah well, you’ll have to imagineer it. Read more…
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213 BC – Dacia Done and Dusted
Troops march off ships into Spain, and are promptly sent packing by the Gauls that have apparently conquered the north of the peninsula. Their superior movement and charge-hitting is telling. The troops get back on the boats and hide. Rather more successfully, a raiding party from Campus Scythii succeeds in destroying the remnants of Dacia, holed up in Vicus Venedae. It’s got to be said, targetting a flaming onager at an open gate isn’t half good at causing havoc. The archers excel themselves, managing to mow down three separate family retinues with barely any losses. On this, the 58th year of my reign, there are 30,000 troops and 170,000 citizens that swear alleigance to the Julian House. Some major Romanisation work takes place this round, heathen temples pulled down and replaced with good, pagan ones. Read more…
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217 BC – War! Huh? War!
Interspersed between random Brit-crushing, I decide the time is now ripe to leap and grab some straws. Clutch. Whatever. A couple of armies moving up towards Brittannic provinces seem a little far away and superfluous, so I invade Thrace with them instead. Hopefully the Publius with them will die of violent dysentry. The first army marches to Campus Getae, and equipped with onagers as it is, immediately assaults. This goes pretty much according to plan.
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223 BC – Macedon Mashed
Byzantium sally with 2000 peasants and gladiators. It turns out even gold-heron peasants flee if facing anything stronger than a mild breeze. This is one of those massacres. Read more…
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228 BC – Maneuverage
I bundle three of my youngest, ugliest generals together with a big stack o’ troops and send them north to prepare for a Brittania invasion. I’m now completely and utterly fed up of Byzantium rioting so I decide to let them kill each other and leave the city en masse. After a few more turns of rioting, they realise that instead of killing their oppressors they are in fact killing thousands of their own for no reason and flippity-flip to Macedonian Dominion. They may only have peasants, but those are 2-gold-heron silver-armoured peasants. I have no idea how they train these guys so quickly.
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