A WTWSMS AAR
From the ashes of treason and invasion, the Eternal City shall rise once more like a great phoenix! Senātus Populusque Rōmānus! Deus Vult!
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A WTWSMS AAR
From the ashes of treason and invasion, the Eternal City shall rise once more like a great phoenix! Senātus Populusque Rōmānus! Deus Vult!
The Pope is independent so his opinion isn't overly relevant atm. Since I'm playing as a Western Christian, I'll probably end up playing nice with him.
A few test games aside, I've never played as them so I've no idea how this will work out.
On a related note, I won't be a merchant republic in this AAR. I get the game mechanics but it's totally ahistorical so i'm going to RP the hell out of this and also pass decision laws that favor the council to simulate the Senate.
Caecina was a man of many contradictions, a Senator yet, until political realities forced the issue, hardly a republican. A strong mind for money and competent administration and yet foolish in his personal indulgences. Humble and willing to serve yet always jealous of those that he viewed as holding better position. If there was any trait that didn't exist in stark contrast with the rest of his personality, it was his willingness to do what needed to be done without hesitation or cowardness. It is this last that compelled him, a man who would have loved nothing more than to serve the imperium, on his current path.
To serve under Odoacer, on it's own, would have been no great burdon. Indeed he had compelled the Senate to recognize his claim to be Rex of Italy when the man yet swore fealty to Nepos and Little Agustus after the coup. No, it was the idea that the light of Rome would be forever extinguished that set him on the path to rebellion for without the Roman State, how could the Senate long endure? And so he and the other Senators began to make their plans. Republican and patriotic rhetoric to whip the citizens of Rome into a frenzy, ready to take up arms when the time came, money saved, stolen and 'earned' for use in securing mercenary aid and spies sent to Odoacer many powerful enemies encouraging invasion so the traitor would be too distracted to act when the Senate made its move.
It would not be long before the Roman Eagle spread its wings and bore its talons once more.
To serve under Odoacer, on it's own, would have been no great burdon. Indeed he had compelled the Senate to recognize his claim to be Rex of Italy when the man yet swore fealty to Nepos and Little Agustus after the coup. No, it was the idea that the light of Rome would be forever extinguished that set him on the path to rebellion for without the Roman State, how could the Senate long endure? And so he and the other Senators began to make their plans. Republican and patriotic rhetoric to whip the citizens of Rome into a frenzy, ready to take up arms when the time came, money saved, stolen and 'earned' for use in securing mercenary aid and spies sent to Odoacer many powerful enemies encouraging invasion so the traitor would be too distracted to act when the Senate made its move.
It would not be long before the Roman Eagle spread its wings and bore its talons once more.
Not waiting for a responce, the Senate called the people of Rome to arms and already had mobilized a levy army by the time their emassary's head returned as answer. With a Lombard mercenary army already dispatched south, the levy army wasted no time making an attempt to evict the Italians form their forts outside the city.
Brief may that greatness be, for only Rome can be master of Italy!
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These Ostrogoths are just another form of "new rich" satirised by Juvenal, and others.
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