The March of the Third, the story of the Legion that saved Rome.
It is the year 267BC. Rome is plunged into war on every front, with stinking Gauls smashing through the floodgates of Legions to the North, while the bloody sons of Dido are engaging the might of Rome in a valiant attempt to retake Roman Sicily, as their navy strangles our peninsula. Our hero, Decius Mus is crushing the Greeks the Tarentine heel, however his army cannot be everywhere at once...the empire itself is falling to pieces. During these hard times, the Roman Republic's economy is flagging, the people of Rome themselves have sold their jewelry and sent their sons to finance the creation of one new, modern Legion. In these times of strife and sacrafice, the Third Legion of Roma was born.
The command of the lifeline of the republic has fallen on the shoulders of me, Augustus Marcellus, personally appointed by the aging leader of the Senate, Flavius Julius.
The Third quickly receives their deployment orders, they are to be shipped south to Sicily to deal with Carthaginian stacks chilling around Messena, raising all kinda Hell. My AO is Northern Sicily, so I plan on landing around the toe of Italy and crossing the Strait (of Messena) on small crafts. Destruction of the Carthaginian Armies are the objective. That is all I need to accomplish, a relatively easy mission. Hoorah.
The Landings go smoothly and the march goes without incident. As we approach the Carthaginian stack, we take the double line formation in anticipation for our attack.
Forgive me, I am meeting my girlfriend for dinner and must leave about 5 minutes ago to be on time. I will read over and correct me horrible grammer and speeling.
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