Roma Victor
Roma Victor !!
...or something like it...
A short background on the players might be in order to explain some of the events in the coming storm.
Hebos is the veteran HOI,EU, Vicky and HOI2 player. the evil genius who now has taken control of
the red plague usually plays on VH/A and does it with a flair.
Jake normally sees the action in WW2 from his cockpit in WW2 online, avid gamer who, as hebos, usually plays on hard difficulty levels without breaking a sweat. His experience with paradox games are mostly concentrated to HOI. Before we started this campaign he adamantly refused to play Britain.
HJ is an experienced gamer both from a tabletop perspective, with titles as world in flames under
his belt and PC games such as HOI, EU, C&C Generals. Normally a mild mannered gentleman he gets
mean when playing wargames
Crilloan, well, thats me. I am an rpg and wisky freak and once belonged to the society of restarters anonymous during my time with BG2. My experience with paradox games are EU2 and recently
HOI2. Hebos and jake tried desperately to wake my interest in HOI; i bought it, installed it, and got scared shitless when I saw the complexity of the game. Didnt play that one. I am a 'builder' in strategy game terms and usually panic when the fighting starts. Meaning that i grab the troops I can find and throw them at the nearest frontier in a large stack, hoping that the gods will smile upon me, or at least not crush me outright. I usually get my a$$ handed to me on normal/normal.
screenshots will be provided when i figure out how to take them.
Dawning of an new era, the return of the roman empire.
As I write down these worlds of epic endeavour, like herodotos before me I send a thought to Epikuros and Luccullus and sip on my tea and nibble on a cinnamon bun. Tea, One of the cultural blessings the english have spread. When their rotten empire falls I will have a word with mussolini to send me some of the sacked goods.
As of september 1938 I serve as the advisor to Mussolini and the aging king of italy. did I say serve? I serve my own means. When Pax Romana is achieved I will install myself as the First emperor of the reborn roman empire.
The state of our fledgling empire is sorry to say the least. Our military is by now means sharp as the gladius of past, but I will reshape our military into modern legions and give them pride and strenght.
But we can not do this alone.
The debacle of teutoburger forrest is long forgotten, but strenght has awoken among their heirs.
Let us harness their strenght and skill to elevate ourselfs to new glory.
September -38 to april -39
Africa, what to do with former abbesinia and ancient carthago?
Our African holdings will be hard to defend, There is a coming storm, war will bury the old and give way to new powers. Germany have grown in strenght and I ponder if I should join the axis of steel. It would give us large benefits for our research, for as all people now, we romans are
builders and engineers, not inventors. (and sorry to say, most of the time befuddled with chianti).
On the other hand it would open up our front to both france, those lazy gallic frogeaters, and to the Old Empire in africa.
We wait and liberate ourselfs from the burden of taking care of somalia in sept. 24
Our resource situation is dire.
December 19 th. we ally ourselfs with the third reich. Alea acta est.
Our research is greatly improved by this move, I have concerns about my african belongings. our naval presence in the mediteranean theater is no match for the british should we clash now.
As I allow myself the luxury of a pils urquell I give an advice that could spell the doom for our alliance. I want more beer and germanany happily obliges with partitioning czeckoslovakia with hungary. this decisicion affects the mob in brittain.In the end of march we crush king Zog of albania. I need more resources!! We live and die with the
material we hope to liberate from Albania.
As I greedily orders the stockpiles from Albania home to rome I realize I have made an ominous mistake. I am no Belisaurius. The Old Empire have had diplomatic negotiations with Zog and granted
them their independence.
WHY?? Why now?? Cant the brittish empire just sink back in to the annals of history and quietly dissappear??
First of April...
Time seems to stand still. A conference is held between the old empire and the red Tzar.
On the first of april Great Brittain declares war on us and all off their alliance follows.
An outcry is heard from our brothers in the north who have been massing troops by the polish border. the siegfrid line is under a short attac.
All of a sudden armored troops cross the border to our Abbesinian holdings. We have only militia
there, militia that I was about to disband and give up the territory.
Alea acta est !!
We have not choosen the moment, we are weak and underdefended but we shall prevail.
Germany is in deep trouble, polish troops crosses the border, a british, daring attac captures rostock. Germany is far from the strenght is should have been in.
Italy stands alone at the moment,Germany have failed to get help from franco or possible partners in the east. we can not count on the strenght of the troops from wermacht.
We are alone.
Let us cross rubicon and show that the spririt of the legions are still inside us!
In northern africa we make a bold push and finally reach el Alamein. Several battles follow but we do not manage to get farther. Libya and africa, were carthago once stood, will we be able to anounce roma victor or should we leave africa for now, as I once had planned?
Pure anger drives our troops in to gallia, we reach as far as tolouse with several victorius battles before we have our first defeat at vichy and we slowly have to start to retreat. We will fight for every village and province. Without german help we will surely face a rain of blood and steel in france.
On the good side, our roman sailors have fought well, only the light cruiser Luigi Cadorna have sofar been sunk. But we expect more losses in the naval war to come.
And what about the Red Tzar, When will the red hordes come screaming in from the east?
Crilloan
Caesar
Commander of the legions,
lover extraordinaire
What is best in life?
To crush your enemies... to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of the women