The Rise of Rome [AAR]

[Stoferr]

Almost everything in this AAR stays true to my SPQR TW 6.4 Campaign game, except the precise dates and years. But all names, wars and whatever may appear stays true to my campaign.

Lentulus the Victor: 191-123 BC

In 170 BC The roman republic was a weak nation, being constantly under attack by gauls from the north. It was a time of change, where the republic moved from beign just another barbarian people, into being a civilised dynasty. It was in these years that that the marian reforms changed the roman army forever. To the north was the united tribes of Gaul, to the north east was the huge kingdom of Dacia.


Roman republic in 165 BC

In 165 BC a young roman general named Lentulus Stolo was granted control of a republican legion. His first mission was to defeat the raiding Gaul armies in northern italy. But after 10 years of fighting, and 50.000 deaths later, Lentulus' campaign had brought him into the hard of the Gallic nation.
The Gauls were forced to ally themself with Dacia, and together these factions did their very best to destroy the Roman Legions. After yet another 5 years of fighting the last king of Gaul were killed, along with his remaining soldiers. Now Lentulus was the greatest roman general ever, as he had brought the biggest enemy of the republic to its knees, and more than 80.000 people had died during his campaign. But the fightning was far from over. Endless of Dacian barbarians were crossing the roman borders into Gaul and Italy. In the next few years, Lentulus fought a huge number of battles, were the Dacians were butchered in thousands. Even though Lentulus never succeded in defeading the Dacian nation, he made sure that no barbarian from the world would ever draw sword against Rome.
Lentulus was now a legend, he was now named Lentulus the Victor, had the full backing of the Roman army, and was powerfull that any senator in Rome.

But he wanted more, so he went to greece with four legeions. In the next 10 years he fought some of the most bloody battles in his life. The greeks was great warriors, outnumbered the romans 5:1 and the leaders was excellent generals.
When Lentulus had almost trown the greeks out of Greece and inty Turkey, he recieved a strange order from the senate of Rome. He had becomed too powerfull, and was ordered to take his own life. Lentulus then went to Italy to fight the Senate, and secure his own life. In the civil wars he both lost and won a few battles. But in 149 he lost his son and heir, Gnaeus Stolo, who was killed, fighting one of the Senate armies. In anger Lentulus butchered all republican soldiers, including every senator who did not swear him allegiance. The he laid siege to Rome, and captured it in 145 BC. Rome was then transformed into an Empire, with Lentulus the Victor on the throne. In the remaining years of his life, he captured the rest of Greece, and captured northern Spain. He died peacefully in 123 BC, as the greatest General and emperor in the dynasty of Rome.

Lentulus the Vcitors empire in 123 BC:



Tomorrow i will tell the story about Marcus Stolo, the second emperor of rome, who conquered Carthage, and launched the biggest invasion in ancient history, when he went to Turkey with more 65.000 soldiers (Real numbers!)

[themrwho]

Hi Stoferr,

Very nice AAR, congrats & keep it coming.

One question though;
what do you mean by 65.000? There are ~3000 soldiers in a full stack.

Do you mean you took 22 full legions at once to Anatolia? (Modern day Turkey)

[Stoferr]

Yup, it is about 20 armies. A legion is a little more 4000 men, and there's 5 or 6 of those. Then there's some support armies made up on Auxilla and Urban cohorts which is almost 5000 men pr. army. Im not really sure about the full number of soldiers but me and a friend calculated, and got it to actually be 80.000 men in total! I will upload some screens along the next AAR lter today.

[themrwho]

Yup, it is about 20 armies. A legion is a little more 4000 men, and there's 5 or 6 of those. Then there's some support armies made up on Auxilla and Urban cohorts which is almost 5000 men pr. army. Im not really sure about the full number of soldiers but me and a friend calculated, and got it to actually be 80.000 men in total! I will upload some screens along the next AAR lter today.

Serious numbers, I think that's more than what you'd need (if you're not going all the way up to China lol)

I can't wait for the next chapter. Thanks and good luck.

[Hesus de bodemloze]

nice start man hope to read more of it soon.

[Hesus de bodemloze]

when can we expect a new update?

[Valerius Tiberius]

wooow, very nice!!!

i like it, the style is somewhat different, and by not using to many pics you make it very good
also, nice writing about your general
did he really conquer that much?
he looks like a madman


i'm eagerly waiting for more


also, how do you finance such an army :S

?? 22 legions for one invasion??

[Stoferr]

Sorry about this terrible delay, but here i give you chapter too of my AAR:

The story of Marcus Stolo, the second emperor of Rome.

When Lentulus the Victor died, a lot of settlements in Gaul and Greece began to riot for several years. The new 24 year old emperor, Marcus Stolo had fought a few battles in Greece with his farther, but he wasnt known as a good general or commander. The first thing Marcus did, when elected emperor, was to go back to Rome, where he stayed for the next years. He didnt really pay attention the uprising civil revolt, instead he raised legions all over Italy. His dream was to conqueror Carthage, who was in control of north west Africa, and Spain. To make sure that the invasion of north Africa would be a succes, he ordere his brother, Appius Stolo to lead the campaign. Appius himself was granted control of the biggest and most powerfull legion ever rised by the romans. It consisted of 10 Praetorian cohorts, 2 praetorian stacks of cavalry, 3 arhers, 2, auxllia javelen throwers, 2 groups of spear auxilla, and Appius' own bodyguards. With this army, Appius went straight to the city of Carthage, and besieged it. Two other legions went west, and besieged some cities.

After some months of besieging, the Carthegians attacked Appius and his legion. The Carthigans were outnumbered, and their infantry couldn't match praetorian infantry. First the entire Carthigan infantry army, threw itself into the death, only few roman soldiers were killed. But suddenly two groups of Elephants appeared. At this point, the Javelin throwers had no more ammo, and neither did the praetorian cohorts. These two remaining elephant stacks, buthceret the entire army. As the battlefield was sorrounded by the sea, there was no place for the romans to flee. Appius himself, fought to his death, and the few reamining legionaries, never returned to the army, or shoed up again. It was the biggest military disaster in roman history, the prime legion of Rome, and the emperors brother, had been crushed by enemies who was considered inferier. None of the other legions in Africa succeded in taking any settlements.

An overview of the battle of Carthage:


Marcus Stolo was considered as a fool, a weak man, who was not worthy to be emperor. To change this, he raised another legion, and took command of it, himself. To crush the rebels, he garrisoned a lot of Auxilla troops, in the rebelling settlements. In this way he could control the people, as no man, wanted to fight his own son or brother. Now Marcus went to Dacia, with his one legion, he captured a lot of land, and buthered eeryone who was fighting against him. The he returned to Rome for some years, while he prepared the army, for another campaign against Carthage.

In 100 BC he went to Spain with 3 legions, he captured northern Spain, and this time the Carthigans were buthered, one by one. When he got more reinforcements form Italy he captured the remaining cities in Spain, and declared it, a province of Rome. He went back to Rome, where he would sit and control his legions all around Europe.

After yet another few years, he tried to capture north Africa, this time he was more lucky, but it was a bloody and slow process.

Marcus Stolo was still not a approved man, so his last act, was to establish the biggest army in history, and with it, to conqueror the Greece occupied Turkey. The invanding force was estimated to be 60.000 men strong, but at the pint of invasion, it was nearly 80.000 men strong. In 77 BC the invasion began, the Greeks was taking completely by suprise, and city by city, the romans fought there way into turkey. It was the biggest military act in ancient history, nearly half a million civilian people was slaughtered, in their cities, as the roman legions advanced.

The pride of Rome; The army invading Turkey:


Marcus Stolo died in 73 BC, he died peacefully in Rome. It this point, he had captured half of Turkey, but he never accomplished his dream of defeating all of the Greeks, nor Carthage. His invasion of Turkey was remebered for ages, but Marcus himself was not. The disasters in his early years was simply enought for the people to forever think bad of him. In 72 BC, the last Carthigan city in north Africa, was captured by the Legions. At the point of his death, the Egyptians declared war to Marcus' legions in Turkey.

The roman empire; 73 BC

[24Gamer]

I feel remembered to my last campaign on 6.4 as the civil war started. I think i got nearly the same number of armies in Latium

[Legio]

Oh my, look at all those legions!

[Hesus de bodemloze]

Oh my, look at all those legions!

check out my invasion fleet in my 6.4 camaign.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...01#post3813601

[Hesus de bodemloze]

very nice whit the screenshots of your map. +rep

[Stoferr]

I will divide the AAR into, chapters of faction leaders. Each new faction leader, will be a new chapter in this AAR. I cannot tell when i will upload the next part, as my new faction leader is pretty young. But i will play as much as possible the next days

[Hesus de bodemloze]

great have fun with your game and young faction leader. we will be tuned for the new update.

[cnaeus]

love this aar especially the battle layouts

[Valerius Tiberius]

another very nice chapter man

keep it up

it's great to write a chapter for each leader ,this way chapters aren't too long, but a lot of things happen

very nice

[Stoferr]

Servius Hirtius, third emperor of Rome

Servius Hirtius was born in the city Capua. He was a son of a former roman general, but was not of noble relatives. When Marcus Stolo planned the invasion of Turkey, Servius got one of the many legions, in the huge roman army. His job was to capture settlements in northern Turkey, to get som ports, linking Greece and Turkey. But the mission was harder than inspected, as it was this way, that the many greek armies used to get to the front against Rome. After two major battles, where 6000 Greeks was killed, Servius became the most succesfull general in the eastern empire. Making him exstremely popular in Rome. When he captured his first city, he was so popular that the emperor himself, marcus Stolo, adopted him. Servius Hirtius now changed his name to Servius Stolo, and became Marcus' heir. That made him even more thirsty for conquest, as he was no longer fighting for Rome, but for himself. He captured huge part of northern Turkey, and during the war, he had killed more than 50.000 greeks.

When Marcus Stolo died in 73 BC, Servius was nmaed emperor at once. He left Turkey, and began the trip to Rome. The people of Rome loved Servius. He was said to be the greatest emperor ever, as he was not just a good general, but was also a good mathematician, and was good in understanding all kinds of matters. On his way from Turkey, Servius was very impressed of the size of his empire. So during the next 8 years, he traveled through Gaul, spain and africa, to watch and learn.

In 65 BC, when Rome had been an empire for precisely 100 years he returned to Rome, where he was welcomed with huge parades. At this time, the invasion of Greece was almost at an end, so the remaining legions invaded Egypt, and captured huge parts in the east, including Jerusalem.

Servis decided to begin his own Campaign, this time into Thrace, who was in control of some key points between Asia end Europe. One of these key points was the city of Byzantium. He knew that controlling that city, would make it a lot easier to reinforce his armies in the East. He gathered his own imperial legion, and then marched for Thrace.

The battle of Byzantium
Servius' plan was to capture Byzantium fast, and without too much fighting. In this way, he could prevent huge losses, and later move deeper into Thrace. He laid siege to the city, and began to create siege engines. The only forces defending the city, was some hundred barbarians, including a thracian family member as general. But instead, Servis was suprised, before he had a finished his siege engines, a huge Thracian army showed up, and attacked the attackers. Suddenly he had no other choice than to fight a battle, where he was hugely outnumbered. He deployed his legion, with all ten cohorts facing the huge Thracian army, and then having two Auxilla cohorts, to take care of the peasants in the city. In the middle, he deployed all his artillery units, to fire at will.
The big thracian army, consisted of missile infantry, and 5 or 6 groups of Greek phallanx infantry. The missile units was killed very fast by Servius many archers, and with some flanking, he succeded in routing the greek Phallanx.


But the two Auxilla cohorts wasnt enough to hold off, the army from the city. So he, and his 70 bodyguards heroicly charged the enemy, to reinforce the auxilla troops. Two legionary cohorts also arrived to help, and slowly, the battle turned into roman favor. In the mess, Servius was found, laying on the ground with an axe in his head. No one, knew who killed, most likely a barbarian peasant who just got a lucky chance to change the history. Byzantium was captured, but the victory wasn't celebrated. The most popular and beloved emperor, had died - a heroicly death ofcourse - but no one was in the move of celebrating the event after such a lose.

Servius Hirtius died in the age 49. At his death, he had no children, nor did he appoint an heir. So an unknown, but wealthy man in Rome, claimed himself emperor. That was the end of the Stolo dynasti, but not the end of this AAR.

The roman empire; 61 BC

[Hesus de bodemloze]

great update, well done man.

[cnaeus]

very nice

[lt1956]

Actually I think you should start a new campaign with SPQR 7.0

BTW you should destroy carthage first before taking Gaul.