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Romanorum theatrum
I hope I don't bore you folks to death, I can be sorta dusty sometimes. I mostly want to share my crazy schemes and wild ideas, I taught myself how to play so you can bet some weird stuff is going to happen! My goal was to conquer the world as fast as I could manage, while avoiding as many civil wars as possible, to never lose a single war, and to colonize as much land as possible as early as possible!
I am sure you are already familiar with how puny Rome starts off looking, I decided right away I wasn't having any of that! War with Magna Graecia was sought, and quickly won while Epirus fumbled about clumsily pretending to help but ultimately being rather useless. Peace was made with Magna Graecia losing Ager Brutittus and a few gold pieces while the war against Epirus was renewed.
Another legion was being trained to begin our splash onto the world scene when something very interesting happened. Dalmatae became split during the earliest civil war I have ever seen! Dalmatae and Scodra were loyal to while Taulanti was held by some doubtless horrible rebel scum.
Quintus Aemilius Papus, our fine new consul, hurriedly led an army across our tiny fleet to besiege Dalmatea while the silly Illyrians fought amongst themselves. Dalmatae and Scodra were quickly taken, while Taulanti was being sieged by loyalists. Much to my bemusement, once the siege was successful the Illyrian capital moved to Taulanti and I was given Scodra and Dalmatae for peace, woo me! Even more amusing, Epirus whom I still shared a war with, quickly annexed the weakened loyalists. This led to my conquest of Epirus and complete ownership of Dalmatae within a few short years of starting.
Quite an exciting start I think, our fine consul is nonplussed however, as apparently ruling Rome is much less exciting than his current ambition to be army quaestor! At least he isn't a filthy populist, how I despise them! A batch of Velites was hastily assembled to begin goading our barbarian neighbors into moving further north onto a nice little reservation we had set aside for them, we made sure to give them some nice blankets for the trip and enslaved any who stayed.
Colonization was soon well underway, Bononia and Liguaria both turning a mighty red, while I notice Dalmatae can colonize 4 provinces by itself, more Velites are sent to rile up barbarians and our tiny little roman empire is on its way to greatness!
Colonization proceeds smoothly, red is bubbling and spilling over its borders to infect new areas. New colonies are gained around Dalmatae and some filthy trouser wearing gauls were forcibly evicted from their homes, we burned their shacks and chased them off. Aedui annexed their neighbor to the north, and it was decided for the sake of continuity we would let them live for now. An army of 8000 horse archers and 8000 cavalry was trained to stand guard over our new gallic territories while the principes ambled towards new conquests.
New laws were enacted cutting corruption and bringing new taxes into our lands. Most importantly Lex Gabinia was put into effect, those pirates annoy me to no end as they spawn on one side of rome then the other in perpetuity. I have a plan for that however, as my navy grows ever larger. One depressing thing occurred, the Macedonians managed to colonize Paeonia as a result of my dustup with them, provinces were to be gathered but some big scary Macedonian general convinced me I only really wanted their gold right now. Thankfully the senate is full of angry old men willing to let me war whomever I desire, if only I could start a war against populists! They do however approve the end of our alliance with Massilia, and the end of their tribute to us. Rome has no allies, no vassals, only enemies yet to fall to our might! In a rather pointless gesture, they ally themselves with Macedonia, forcing me to accept they have no more feelings for Rome and as such they will feel our sword next!
WAR! The senate has called and I have answered, they claim Carthage is too powerful and must be broken. Sounds like a good romp, I hate those stupid jerks anyways. A surprise attack is prepared as my most devious commander and 16000 of his men are loaded aboard my tiny navy and sent to Iberia. Meanwhile my peacekeeping cavalry legion has been completed and is stationed next to Massilia while my heavy infantry amble down to Emporion to call on our late allies...
Everything has fallen into place and war has been declared, first on Massilia, then on Carthage. Iberia quickly falls to my relentless assault and the fabulous General Agis Epidid pictured later, takes position in Gadira to repel the inevitable counter attack. Meanwhile, Massilia quickly yields and surrenders Emporion and some gold to our might, the Carthaginians refuse to grant us Iberia and obviously desire a more sound thrashing. Their navy is over fussing about by Gadira to prevent me from attacking (as if I had any desire to) so I land my 4th legion, fresh from creation in Carthage and quickly sack it and the surrounding territory. Again peace is sought, but Carthage refuses and sends their navy after mine leaving Agis Epidid to move into northern africa to rack up some warscore. After brutally annihilating their armies attempting to attack across the strait, they are severely weakened and Carthage reluctantly cedes its Iberian territory.
Here you can see conquering hero, Agis Epidid hoping to take advantage of a rebellion in Lusitani to conquer both countries in one fell, naughty swoop. Speaking of which, the rest of the world is apparently terrified of us, this is how we know we are on the right track! I say let them eat cake!
Our eyes fall upon colonial territories from afar in need of our strong leadership, Thracia and Macedonia will likely fall next barring the unforseen! Or perhaps Agis Epidid will go nuts in Iberia and bring some culture to that fine area. Nobody truly knows, not even myself!
I think I can use 10 screenshots per post so lets just throw some country info in to show the current state of affairs. Currently we (I love that royal we) possess 2 navies, one located on each side of modern Italy to slay sea brigands, 17 ships anchored at Rome and 13 anchored in Apulia. We hold the banners of 6 legions, numbering 88000 strong. 1 peace keeping legion of 16000 horse and 5 war legions of 12k-15k heavy infantry mixed with archers.
Our cultural dominance is currently nonexistant, something to be worked on in the future. Our religion teeters on the brink of losing its majority holding, this too will hopefully change for the better in the future.
A list of our fine consuls so far, thankfully no populists and all relatively able men, they have helped propel us into a strong start to begin our world conquest!
I am ashamed to say we are as dumb as a rock while other nations zoom ahead, at least we have a strong tax base and lots of able bodied men to conquer these advanced nations. I have no idea how to change this, I never can manage to lead Rome into technological superiority without killing off those smarter than me
o
I hope this is a good start so far, feedback is appreciated! Also if anything about my AAR is strange or poorly executed please tell me so I can fix it, thanks! UNTIL NEXT TIME
edit: Fixed the humongous images, hope it helps out!
Romanorum theatrum
I hope I don't bore you folks to death, I can be sorta dusty sometimes. I mostly want to share my crazy schemes and wild ideas, I taught myself how to play so you can bet some weird stuff is going to happen! My goal was to conquer the world as fast as I could manage, while avoiding as many civil wars as possible, to never lose a single war, and to colonize as much land as possible as early as possible!
I am sure you are already familiar with how puny Rome starts off looking, I decided right away I wasn't having any of that! War with Magna Graecia was sought, and quickly won while Epirus fumbled about clumsily pretending to help but ultimately being rather useless. Peace was made with Magna Graecia losing Ager Brutittus and a few gold pieces while the war against Epirus was renewed.
Another legion was being trained to begin our splash onto the world scene when something very interesting happened. Dalmatae became split during the earliest civil war I have ever seen! Dalmatae and Scodra were loyal to while Taulanti was held by some doubtless horrible rebel scum.
Quintus Aemilius Papus, our fine new consul, hurriedly led an army across our tiny fleet to besiege Dalmatea while the silly Illyrians fought amongst themselves. Dalmatae and Scodra were quickly taken, while Taulanti was being sieged by loyalists. Much to my bemusement, once the siege was successful the Illyrian capital moved to Taulanti and I was given Scodra and Dalmatae for peace, woo me! Even more amusing, Epirus whom I still shared a war with, quickly annexed the weakened loyalists. This led to my conquest of Epirus and complete ownership of Dalmatae within a few short years of starting.
Quite an exciting start I think, our fine consul is nonplussed however, as apparently ruling Rome is much less exciting than his current ambition to be army quaestor! At least he isn't a filthy populist, how I despise them! A batch of Velites was hastily assembled to begin goading our barbarian neighbors into moving further north onto a nice little reservation we had set aside for them, we made sure to give them some nice blankets for the trip and enslaved any who stayed.
Colonization was soon well underway, Bononia and Liguaria both turning a mighty red, while I notice Dalmatae can colonize 4 provinces by itself, more Velites are sent to rile up barbarians and our tiny little roman empire is on its way to greatness!
Colonization proceeds smoothly, red is bubbling and spilling over its borders to infect new areas. New colonies are gained around Dalmatae and some filthy trouser wearing gauls were forcibly evicted from their homes, we burned their shacks and chased them off. Aedui annexed their neighbor to the north, and it was decided for the sake of continuity we would let them live for now. An army of 8000 horse archers and 8000 cavalry was trained to stand guard over our new gallic territories while the principes ambled towards new conquests.
New laws were enacted cutting corruption and bringing new taxes into our lands. Most importantly Lex Gabinia was put into effect, those pirates annoy me to no end as they spawn on one side of rome then the other in perpetuity. I have a plan for that however, as my navy grows ever larger. One depressing thing occurred, the Macedonians managed to colonize Paeonia as a result of my dustup with them, provinces were to be gathered but some big scary Macedonian general convinced me I only really wanted their gold right now. Thankfully the senate is full of angry old men willing to let me war whomever I desire, if only I could start a war against populists! They do however approve the end of our alliance with Massilia, and the end of their tribute to us. Rome has no allies, no vassals, only enemies yet to fall to our might! In a rather pointless gesture, they ally themselves with Macedonia, forcing me to accept they have no more feelings for Rome and as such they will feel our sword next!
WAR! The senate has called and I have answered, they claim Carthage is too powerful and must be broken. Sounds like a good romp, I hate those stupid jerks anyways. A surprise attack is prepared as my most devious commander and 16000 of his men are loaded aboard my tiny navy and sent to Iberia. Meanwhile my peacekeeping cavalry legion has been completed and is stationed next to Massilia while my heavy infantry amble down to Emporion to call on our late allies...
Everything has fallen into place and war has been declared, first on Massilia, then on Carthage. Iberia quickly falls to my relentless assault and the fabulous General Agis Epidid pictured later, takes position in Gadira to repel the inevitable counter attack. Meanwhile, Massilia quickly yields and surrenders Emporion and some gold to our might, the Carthaginians refuse to grant us Iberia and obviously desire a more sound thrashing. Their navy is over fussing about by Gadira to prevent me from attacking (as if I had any desire to) so I land my 4th legion, fresh from creation in Carthage and quickly sack it and the surrounding territory. Again peace is sought, but Carthage refuses and sends their navy after mine leaving Agis Epidid to move into northern africa to rack up some warscore. After brutally annihilating their armies attempting to attack across the strait, they are severely weakened and Carthage reluctantly cedes its Iberian territory.
Here you can see conquering hero, Agis Epidid hoping to take advantage of a rebellion in Lusitani to conquer both countries in one fell, naughty swoop. Speaking of which, the rest of the world is apparently terrified of us, this is how we know we are on the right track! I say let them eat cake!
Our eyes fall upon colonial territories from afar in need of our strong leadership, Thracia and Macedonia will likely fall next barring the unforseen! Or perhaps Agis Epidid will go nuts in Iberia and bring some culture to that fine area. Nobody truly knows, not even myself!
I think I can use 10 screenshots per post so lets just throw some country info in to show the current state of affairs. Currently we (I love that royal we) possess 2 navies, one located on each side of modern Italy to slay sea brigands, 17 ships anchored at Rome and 13 anchored in Apulia. We hold the banners of 6 legions, numbering 88000 strong. 1 peace keeping legion of 16000 horse and 5 war legions of 12k-15k heavy infantry mixed with archers.
Our cultural dominance is currently nonexistant, something to be worked on in the future. Our religion teeters on the brink of losing its majority holding, this too will hopefully change for the better in the future.
A list of our fine consuls so far, thankfully no populists and all relatively able men, they have helped propel us into a strong start to begin our world conquest!
I am ashamed to say we are as dumb as a rock while other nations zoom ahead, at least we have a strong tax base and lots of able bodied men to conquer these advanced nations. I have no idea how to change this, I never can manage to lead Rome into technological superiority without killing off those smarter than me
o
I hope this is a good start so far, feedback is appreciated! Also if anything about my AAR is strange or poorly executed please tell me so I can fix it, thanks! UNTIL NEXT TIME
edit: Fixed the humongous images, hope it helps out!
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