Are there any new historical battles

**chaser1989** · August 14, 2010, 02:49 PM

Hi just thought id ask if anyone new about any new historical battles apart frm the ones on the basic rtw non modded tht can be added to it rather thn moddin the whole thing just add some historical battles etc

**Hopit** · August 14, 2010, 03:02 PM

no

**Lucarius** · August 14, 2010, 04:04 PM

Not that i know

**Punic Hoplite** · August 14, 2010, 04:10 PM

Well in the files there's dialogue for unfinished battles that they never completed. There's one for Zama, and Syracuse if I remember right. But they aren't exactly 'new'.

Here's ones that I found:
{Pharsalus00}
{Spartacus01}
{Mancetter00}
{Lake_Trasimene01}
{Syracuse00}
{Arausio01}
{Jugurtha00}
{Chaeronea00}
{Alexandria00}
{Bibracte00}
{MonsGraupius01}
{Tigranocerta01}

{Pharsalus00}
By 48 BC the long struggle between Julius Caesar and Pompey was coming to an end. One or the other would be the dictator of Rome. The old Republic would be no more, swept aside by a time when one strong man would rule all.

{Pharsalus01}
The Battle of Pharsalus was to be a turning point.

{Pharsalus02}
Earlier in the year the two had met at Dyrrhachium in Greece. Pompey had won and Caesar had retreated.

{Pharsalus03}
Rather than go back to Rome and rally support in the Senate, Pompey decided to finish Caesar, to hunt him down and destroy him. If Caesar was left alone, what mischief would he get up to?

{Pharsalus04}
This was to be a fight to the death.

{Pharsalus05}
For his part, Caesar was happy to finish the business too. He had fallen back towards his armies’ supplies and reinforcements. If Pompey wanted a fight, he could have one!

{Pharsalus06}
After two month of marching and countermarching the two sides met. Pompey chose a hill near the town of Pharsalus and made his stand.

{Pharsalus07}
Caesar ordered his battle lines to advance.

{Pharsalus08}
The rest, as they say, is history…

{Spartacus01}
Mount Vesuvius. 72 BC.

{Spartacus02}
This is the army of Spartacus, a force causing fear throughout Italy.

{Spartacus03}
Thousands of the slaves have escaped from their Roman masters, and now fill the ranks of a gladiator-led army on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.

{Spartacus04}
Spartacus has already crushed two Roman Legions.

{Spartacus05}
The wealthy Roman Senators have panicked. Marcus Marcus Lucinius Crassus, the most ambitious man in Rome, now has command. His mission: destroy Spartacus and all his followers.

{Spartacus06}
Pompey the Great has been recalled from Spain and his 8 Legions are only two days’ march from Vesuvius.

{Spartacus07}
Spartacus knows that he must break Crassus before Pompey arrives.

{Spartacus08}
Crassus has set up camp at the foot of the volcano. His legions are ready.

{Spartacus09}
Spartacus knows that his slave army has little chance in an open battle. He has a plan to sneak into camp with his finest warriors and kill Crassus.

{Spartacus10}
If Crassus dies, Spartacus and his army will be able to slip away in the confusion. The rebellion will continue! Freedom and escape from Rome will still be possible!

{Mancetter00}
Winter. 60 AD.

{Mancetter01}
This is the new northern province of Britannia, a strange land of violent, ungrateful natives and dark magic.

{Mancetter02}
Roman law is finally being imposed here.

{Mancetter03}
The Roman Governor, Suetonius Paulinus, is busy suppressing the druids, a vicious religious cult from Mona, an island off the west coast. It’s a dirty job, but one that needs doing.

{Mancetter04}
Meanwhile, the Queen of the Iceni has seen her husband die. Then the Romans take her lands, rape her daughters and beat her to within an inch of her life.

{Mancetter05}
Roman law is being imposed, but for the benefits of Romans, not the natives.

{Mancetter06}
This particular native Queen has other ideas.

{Mancetter07}
Queen Boudicca wants revenge. She wants Roman blood spilled until the rivers run red.

{Mancetter08}
Two tribes – the Iceni and the Trinobantes – have risen in rebellion.

{Mancetter09}
Three Roman settlements have been put to the sword and burned.

{Mancetter10}
There is no going back.

{Mancetter11}
As Paulinus marches south to meet the rebels, the two armies meet on the Roman road of Watling Street, here, at the small settlement of Mancetter.

{Mancetter12}
There will be no quarter given.

{Mancetter13}
Boudicca has every reason to hate the Romans.

{Mancetter14}
The Romans never, ever let rebels live.

{Mancetter15}
Mancetter will decide whether Britannia is part of Rome, or returns to the old ways…

{Lake_Trasimene01}
Rome is not the only power rising along the shores of the Mediterranean.

{Lake_Trasimene02}
Another people, the Carthaginians, have imperial ambitions. Their empire is growing in Spain, even as the Romans secure the Italian peninsular.

{Lake_Trasimene03}
Sooner or later a clash between the two powers was inevitable. Both have designs on the same lands, the same riches!

{Lake_Trasimene04}
For Rome, Caius Flaminius has been sent north to deal with the Carthaginian problem.

{Lake_Trasimene05}
And it is a problem: Hannibal Barca, the greatest Carthaginian general ever, is on the march.

{Lake_Trasimene06}
He swore an oath to his dying father that he would never give the Romans a moment's peace.

{Lake_Trasimene07}
This is the year 218 BC.

{Lake_Trasimene08}
Hannibal has already kept his oath at Trebia. After that victory, he forced the Romans back onto the defensive.

{Lake_Trasimene09}
Now, with his army at Lake Trasimene, Hannibal plans to lure another Roman army into a brutal ambush. He has every reason to hope the Romans will cooperate in their own deaths!

{Lake_Trasimene10}
The Romans quickly move to meet the obvious threat from Hannibal's men.

{Lake_Trasimene11}
Unaware of the danger, Flaminius orders his leading units to attack.

{Lake_Trasimene12}
Hannibal springs his trap! His waiting troops are ordered to attack the unprepared Romans.

{Lake_Trasimene13}
The Carthaginian plan is to sweep down on the Roman flank, and drive their enemies into the icy waters of Lake Trasimene.

{Lake_Trasimene14}
Only courage and Roman discipline will save the Roman army -

{Lake_Trasimene15}
- The legionaries must turn and face the oncoming Carthaginians, and keep themselves from being surrounded!

{Syracuse00}
In centuries past, the city-state of Syracuse was a Greek colony on the island of Sicily

{Syracuse01}
It had been blessed with a highly defensible position, with imposing and impenetrable walls built to repel invaders.

{Syracuse02}
Many battles had been fought over this city, but it had finally managed to establish a dominance of its own in the Western Mediterranean.

{Syracuse03}
During the next hundred years, Carthage expanded its power once more into Sicily, and Syracuse turned to its allies of Greece and Rome to repel their influence.

{Syracuse04}
In 215 BC, Syracuse's alliance with Rome came to a shuddering halt with the death of their king, Hiero.

{Syracuse05}
With Syracuse declared a Rebublic, it became clear that the leading political party now supported Carthage.

{Syracuse06}
In a typically militaristic response, the Romans sent an invasion force under Claudius Marcellus to end the discussion.

{Syracuse07}
Marcellus moved immediately to besiege Syracuse.

{Syracuse08}
In a long and bitter struggle, the Roman general eventually gained the upper hand by capturing the outer defences with an audacious night assault.

{Syracuse09}
The legendary walls of Syracuse have finally come within range of the Roman Onagers.

{Syracuse10}
If the Carthaginians can be beaten back from Syracuse, a vital strategic stronghold will be denied to them.

{Syracuse11}
Rome would edge one step closer to the Carthaginian homelands.

{Syracuse12}
Defend your city and drive back the Roman invaders…

{Syracuse13}
Attack the city and drive out the Carthaginian barbarians…

{Zama00}
After fifteen years of warfare, Carthage and Rome have fought each other almost to the point of exhaustion.

{Zama01}
For the Carthaginians, The Second Punic War is not going well.

{Zama02}
Even the Roman legions are beginning to find that their resources are becoming stretched to the limit.

{Zama03}
Despite brilliant victories, Hannibal Barca has been unable to break the grip of Roman power in Italy.

{Zama04}
The Romans however, have painfully learned how to tactically defeat Hannibal and his Carthaginian army on the battlefield.

{Zama05}
In 204BC, Publius Cornelius Scipio landed in North Africa at the head of a large Roman force.

{Zama06}
Scipio is an outstanding general whose reforms to the Roman army have made him a legend.

{Zama07}
He is now in Hannibal's homeland, threatening destruction at the very heart of the Carthaginian Empire.

{Zama08}
However, with the urgent recall of Hannibal and his veterans from Italy, Carthage once again feel they have the upper hand.

{Zama09}
With any hope of peace now dead, Hannibal and Scipio have gathered their armies and marched to battle.

{Zama10}
Here they now stand, facing each other at Zama.

{Zama11}
The battle lines are drawn.

{Zama12}
On one side, Scipio and his superbly trained army.

{Zama13}
On the other, Hannibal and his imposing contingent of elephants.

{Zama14}
With the loss of his Numidian allies, will the legendary Carthaginian's cavalry be able to withstand the might of Rome?

{Arausio01}
The year is 105 BC, and Rome's interference is about to lead to another war.

{Arausio02}
This is Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, commander of a well-trained Roman army, and consul of Rome.

{Arausio03}
With him is proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio, an "ally" and rival for power.

{Arausio04}
They have come north to deal with - eradicate, in fact - the Cimbri and Teutone tribes beyond Rome's borders.

{Arausio05}
For Rome's borders are soon to expand.

{Arausio06}
The barbarians occupy land that should, by right of arms, be Roman.

{Arausio07}
But the Cimbri and Teutones are not going anywhere.

{Arausio08}
Loot that should have gone to fill the coffers of Rome.

{Arausio09}
Gnaeus Mallius Maximus and his army are in Transalpine Gaul.

{Arausio10}
As the Romans approach the barbarians Quintus Servilius Caepio looks to his own interests. His army pulls back.

{Arausio11}
Gnaeus Mallius Maximus now has a flank of his army exposed.

{Arausio12}
The huge barbarian force stands ready to crush the weakened Roman force.

{Arausio13}
The Romans are in trouble.

{Arausio14}
Maximus is surrounded, and could be swept away by the barbarian hordes.

{Arausio15}
His only hope is to hold out until reinforcements come.

{Arausio16}
He must find a strong, defensible position to withstand the Cimbri and Teutones -

{Arausio17}
- or Roman honour and Roman lives will be lost.

{Jugurtha00}
Numidia had been a Carthaginian client kingdom for many centuries.

{Jugurtha01}
During the Second Punic War however, Numidia swapped sides, abandoning Carthage in favour of Rome.

{Jugurtha02}
They spent decades extending their influence, stealing former Carthaginian territory and trying to turn their people into settled peasants.

{Jugurtha03}
The fleeing Carthaginians were allowed to settle in what are now Numidian lands.

{Jugurtha04}
Seeds of trouble had been sown, however.

{Jugurtha05}
The new King, Micipsa, adopted his nephew, Jugurtha as an heir.

{Jugurtha06}
Jugurtha was given command of the Numidian forces and sent to help the Romans.

{Jugurtha07}
He quickly impressed many of them with his military prowess.

{Jugurtha08}
When Micipsa died, Jugurtha usurped the throne and promptly broke free from the Roman alliance.

{Jugurtha09}
Matters should have rested there, but Jugurtha allowed himself to be provoked by Roman politicking.

{Jugurtha10}
It is 109BC, and the upstart Numidian has declared war against his former Roman allies.

{Jugurtha11}
Rome, never one to take threats lightly, has sent the best soldier the Empire has ever produced.

{Jugurtha12}
This man had been elected consul in consecutive years – something that wasn’t supposed to happen under Roman law.

{Jugurtha13}
The man they sent was Gaius Marius…

{Chaeronea00}
It is 86BC.

{Chaeronea01}
A period of Roman political unrest is causing division within the Senate.

{Chaeronea02}
Taking advantage of the Roman turmoil, Pontus has emerged as an Empire to be reckoned with.

{Chaeronea03}
In particular, Mithradates the VI of Pontus has emerged as an ambitious man.

{Chaeronea04}
Setting his sights firmly on the territories of the Roman Empire, he swiftly mobilises his forces.

{Chaeronea05}
Leading from the head of his armies, Mithradates has begun to move west through Asia Minor into Roman territory.

{Chaeronea06}
Lucius Cornelius Sulla began his military career in Africa, under the now famous general Gaius Marius.

{Chaeronea07}
After helping in the capture of Jugurtha of Numidia, he eventually became consul as a member of the senatorial group.

{Chaeronea08}
Seeing it as an opportunity to prove his worth as a general, Sulla has prepared his forces to crush Mithradates and Pontus once and for all.

{Chaeronea09}
His legions now stand ready.

{Chaeronea10}
Across the field of battle awaits the upstart Mithradates of Pontus, intent on crushing the Romans.

{Chaeronea11}
Mithradates holds the higher ground and has numerical superiority.

{Chaeronea12}
Sulla's troops are battle hardened veterans, some of the most capable soldiers Rome has ever produced.

{Chaeronea13}
Two Empires.

{Chaeronea14}
Two Men.

{Chaeronea15}
Only one Empire can survive this battle…

{Alexandria00}
After his crushing defeat at Pharsalus, Caesar's rival Pompey decided that a trip to Egypt would be beneficial to his continuing good health.

{Alexandria01}
He fled to the Egyptian city of Alexandria by sea, looking for asylum with the Egyptian ruler, Ptolemy XIII.

{Alexandria02}
Before Pompey could land however, he was assassinated.

{Alexandria03}
Caesar, hot in pursuit, arrived shortly afterwards and was soon deeply involved in Egyptian politics and Ptolemaic family squabblings.

{Alexandria04}
It became clear Ptolemy XIII was not the only member of his family to have designs on the throne of Egypt.

{Alexandria05}
His sister-and-wife, Cleopatra VII, had thoughts of being queen all by herself.

{Alexandria06}
The 22-year-old had herself delivered to Caesar's quarters wrapped in an oriental carpet.

{Alexandria07}
Cleopatra used her beguiling beauty to persuade Ceasar into supporting her instead of her brother.

{Alexandria08}
Her plan worked, and with the recent arrival of Roman reinforcements, Caesar now plans to carry out a coup on her behalf.

{Alexandria09}
Ceasar's troops stand ready to engage Ptolemy's loyalists in brutal combat through the streets of Alexandria.

{Alexandria10}
The prize for the loser will be a violent death.

{Alexandria11}
To the winner goes Alexandria and Egypt.

{Alexandria12}
The greatest prize of all, however, is the alluringly beautiful Cleopatra.

{Alexandria13}
Only one man can win.

{Alexandria14}
Only one man can claim Cleopatra as his queen.

{Alexandria15}
Kill Ptolemy and claim the city for the glory of Rome…

{Bibracte00}
When the Romans arrived in Transalpine Gaul they lost no time in becoming involved in local Celtic politics.

{Bibracte01}
This meant that many of the Celtic tribes were gradually drawn into the Roman sphere of influence as trade and wealth seduced them.

{Bibracte02}
The Aedui were one such tribe.

{Bibracte03}
Indeed, they were even given the title of 'Friends of Rome' by the Senate to show the close relationship.

{Bibracte04}
It was natural, then, that the Aedui would turn to the Romans for help when they were under pressure from their aggressive, land-hungry neighbours.

{Bibracte05}
The Helvetii were a Gallic tribe who had begun to move out of the mountains and into Aedui lands.

{Bibracte06}
Initially the Senate declined to help.

{Bibracte07}
Julius Ceasar however, had recently been appointed proconsul.

{Bibracte08}
He immediately recognised the opportunity for expanding direct Roman control into Gaul.

{Bibracte09}
He agreed to help, seeing this as a chance to move his armies into Celtic territory, and marched northwards at the head of his troops.

{Bibracte10}
If the Helvetii could be defeated, little would stand between Caesar and the rest of Gaul...

{MonsGraupius01}
This is 84 AD.

{MonsGraupius02}
The far north of Britannia is mostly at peace.

{MonsGraupius03}
But in the remote mountains at the edge of the Roman world, a few men still resist Roman power.

{MonsGraupius04}
Agricola, the Roman governor of Britannia, has come north with his army to bring peace to these dark hills.

{MonsGraupius05}
Once and for all, Roman authority will control the highlands and the wild, blue-painted men who live there.

{MonsGraupius06}
The Britons have chosen the ground for their last stand: Mons Graupius.

{MonsGraupius07}
The steep, high ground gives the Britons an advantage.

{MonsGraupius08}
Agricola and his legions are now upon them.

{MonsGraupius09}
Agricola will need to lure the Britons off the slope if he is to win, perhaps encircling them in the process.

{MonsGraupius10}
The last bastion of British freedom is about to be assaulted.

{MonsGraupius11}
This is a final, bloody day of reckoning.

{MonsGraupius12}
The freedom of Britannnia's Highlands is about to face the most deadly test yet.

{MonsGraupius13}
Perhaps the final, bloody test…

{Tigranocerta01}
Tigranocerta: the capital of the Armenia King, Tigranes.

{Tigranocerta02}
He is a proud man, and rightfully so.

{Tigranocerta03}
He also hates Rome. And perhaps fears what Rome will do.

{Tigranocerta04}
For years, he has allied himself with the King of Pontus, defying Rome in all things.

{Tigranocerta05}
By 69 BC Roman patience was at an end. Lucullus Sulla was sent east to settle scores.

{Tigranocerta06}
Now Pontus is too weak to aid Tigranes. He must face the storm on his own.

{Tigranocerta07}
But no matter. Tigranes is a man set on victory.

{Tigranocerta08}
With his fearsome cataphract cavalry, he knows the Armenians are better soldiers than the Romans.

{Tigranocerta09}
And so here, across the river, he has moved to face Lucullus Sulla.

{Tigranocerta10}
In response, the Romans have moved along the river bank, a tactical retreat.

{Tigranocerta11}
Suddenly Sulla orders a charge across the ford, taking on the right flank of the Armenian army where the cataphracts are posted.

{Tigranocerta12}
The Romans hope to work around the flank and continue the attack.

{Tigranocerta13}
Tigranes is surprised, outflanked and facing the most efficient army in the world. The Armenians are on the edge of panicking.

{Tigranocerta14}
If Tigranes is to win today, he must hold the high ground and control the ford.

{Tigranocerta15}
There is now little that can save Armenia from falling into ruin and becoming one of history's forgotten glories…