LORDS OF HISTORY (the ultimate edition)

[fogman]

Round 13: The Empire at Bay

When in 248, emperor Philippus Arabus celebrated the 1000th year of Rome, the empire still exuded strength and little presaged the forthcoming decades of crisis that almost destroyed it. But dark clouds were gathering: the Germans were massing on the Danube and the Rhine, the Sasanians on the Euphrates. The army was restive and conscious of its power to make or break emperors. The following year, the Danube legions under Decius marched into Italy and overwhelmed the outnumbered legions of Philippus. But Decius didn’t rule for long. In 251 he was lost with most of his army in the traumatic defeat of Forum Terebronii (Abrittus) as the Goths overran the Balkans, the first time an emperor had fallen in battle. With difficulties, his successors stabilized the situation on the Danube and Rhine, enough that Valerian was able to turn his attention to the eastern frontier. But a similar catastrophe befell his army in the great rout of Edessa at the hands of Shapur in 260. Rome’s resiliency once again was to be tested as in the days after Cannae.

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FORUM TEREBRONII 251 AD

Decius engaged the Goths as they returned home laden with booty. The Gothic king Cniva had carefully chosen the marshy terrain unfavourable to the Roman heavy infantry. As the Romans broke through the Gothic first battle line, they were met with a devastating counterattack.

Note: Regular Roman infantry is now rated either armoured, impact foot/sword or armoured, light spear/sword. It still trumps Gothic infantry that is only protected impact foot/sword or protected light spear/sword in the open but the Goths, being medium foot, will be in their element on marshy grounds.

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EDESSA 260 AD

With his army weakened by the plague, Valerian’s resolve and judgement failed when he was confronted by Shapur. Trying to negotiate, he was captured and his demoralized army was crushed with immense losses.

Note: note that demoralized Roman foot reverts to being fleeing poor medium foot.

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FORUM TEREBRONII (updated matchups)

Romans vs Goths

Allendeuce vs IMC
Edmund vs Iandavidsmith
Enakan vs Londo (Londo challenges Enakan)
Ericdoman vs Mcficivo
Fogman vs Tdefender
Iandavidsmith vs Lordnytram
IMC vs Edmund (Edmund challenges IMC)
Londo vs Allendeuce
Lordnytram vs Fogman
Mcfcivo vs Enakan
Tdefender vs Ericdoman

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EDESSA

Romans vs Sasanians

Allendeuce vs Lordnytram
Edmund vs Enakan
Enakan vs Fogman (Fogman challenges Enakan)
Ericdoman vs Edmund
Fogman vs Iandavidsmith
Iandavidsmith vs Mcfcivo
IMC vs Tdefender (TDefender challenges IMC)
Londo vs IMC
Lordnytram vs Ericdoman
Mcfcivo vs Allendeuce
Tdefender vs Londo

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First named initiates challenges. NO FOG OF WAR, NO DOUBLE MOVES.

[fogman]

Battle files

Forum Terebronii

Fm Forum Terebronii 251.zip

(8.48 KiB) Downloaded 265 times

Edessa

Fm Edessa 260.zip

(7.34 KiB) Downloaded 265 times

[fogman]

Nisibis

Romans (fogman) 55/100 vs Parthians (TDefender) 75/68

fogman 11.0
TDefender 5.5

[LordNytram]

Nisibis result

Londo edges it in a drawn game.
Londo (Romans) 70/100 draws with LordNytram (Pathians) 56/68

Londo 8.2
LordNytram 7.0

[TDefender]

Angrivarian Wall

IMC (germans) 91/100 vs TDefender (romans) 71/70

IMC: 10.1
me: 9.1

Very close game!

[ericdoman1]

Hormozgan

eric (Parthians) 51/67 vs Londo (Sasanians) 61/58

eric: 10.5
Londo: 7.6

A tough encounter.

[iandavidsmith]

Result

NISIBIS
ROMANS VS PARTHIANS

Iandavidsmith (PARTHIANS) 44/68 defeats Enakan (ROMANS) 84/100

Ran out of time!

Iandavidsmith : 8.4 pts
Enakan : 6.5 pts

Thanks for the game,
Ian

[TDefender]

Fm Issis (previous turn missed) :

Allendeuce (Niger) 80/80 vs TDfender (Severus) 81/85

me: 10
Allendeuce: 9.5

[Enakan]

Hormozgan 224 result from Andy's and my game,

His Sasanians vs. my Parthians, it was close but in the last two turns it just fell apart for him......

43/67 Parthians to 67/58 Sasanians

Enakan 11.6
Mcfcivo 6.4

Did someone mention a higher limit/cutoff? Didn't mean to pad it, we were locked in so many combats which ended up badly for Andy.....

[iandavidsmith]

Result

HORMOZGAN
PARTHIANS VS SASANIANS

Iandavidsmith (SASANIANS) 42/58 defeats Lordnytram (PARTHIANS ) 68/67

Iandavidsmith :10 pts
Lordnytram : 7.2 pts

Thanks for the game,
Ian

[ericdoman1]

Hi FM

My score isn't really going to be relevant (unless highest average wins, doubtful) and is certainly not right as I haven't played the other 6 scenarios.
Just a thought. I don't mind playing catch up, got time on my hands (bit bored really) and having 7 + games on the go is OK, did it in the past in leagues. SO any chance of playing previous 6 scenarios x 2 agst the guys. A suggestion is to play aginst an opponent who was very unfortunate in one of the scenarios and so boost his overall score. Just wondering how the rest feel?

[fogman]

Hi FM

My score isn't really going to be relevant (unless highest average wins, doubtful) and is certainly not right as I haven't played the other 6 scenarios.
Just a thought. I don't mind playing catch up, got time on my hands (bit bored really) and having 7 + games on the go is OK, did it in the past in leagues. SO any chance of playing previous 6 scenarios x 2 agst the guys. A suggestion is to play aginst an opponent who was very unfortunate in one of the scenarios and so boost his overall score. Just wondering how the rest feel?

It’s the per game score that counts. That allows people to join without having to worry about number of games played. Having to play the games you missed would mess up with the flow, and there’s already a ton of games that are behind schedule.

[fogman]

NISIBIS

Parthians (fogman) 49/68 vs Romans (mcfcivo) 95/100

fogman 9.5
mcfcivo 6.9

[fogman]

MATCHUPS FOR NEW ROUND ARE UP. SEE POST ON 13 MARCH.

[LordNytram]

Challenges up from LordNytram:

Ericdoman for Edessa. Password: Ericdoman
Fogman for Forum Terebronii. Password: Fogman

[mcfcivo]

Bedriacum Result.

MCFCIVO (Vitellians) 72/80 beats IMC 99/96 (Othonians)

Close run thinh with the Othonians hanging on with a a couple of points left for several turns...Good game Ian.

[TDefender]

Games up:

Forum Terebronii

Tdefender vs Ericdoman pw: Forum

Edessa

IMC vs Tdefender (TDefender challenges IMC) pw: Edessa1
Tdefender vs Londo pw: Edessa

[ericdoman1]

Challenges about to appear

Andy pw = olepepe

Richard pw = THEEDESSAFILE

[mcfcivo]

Challenges up for
Enakan Forum Terebronii pw enakan
Allendeuce Edessa pw deuce

[Londo]

Mons Graupius

Londo (Romans) 56/68 - Ian (Caledonians) 99/98

We actually played this one twice! First time was a draw, but neither of us posted the scores, so after Slitherine wiped old games recently, we had to have a rematch. Thanks for both games, Ian.

Londo 10.1
Ian 8.2