Remove ads

Res Publica: A Quest of Ancient Rome

Reader mode
KnightofTempest said:
We can always spin taking over Spain as a neccesary step to securing the valuable Hispanic Tin Traid from African Raids after the fact. After all the current governors are incompetent and there are raids happening.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
You mean we try to convince Sertorius to do it, we aren't getting anything out of it immediately but experience. This power base argument annoys me because Spain will be Sertorius' base, which we can inherit after his death. That can be a long way off still, or happening so early that we are in no position to fight a civil war on our own by youth alone.
KnightofTempest said:
As to whether or not Spain has the resources to resist Sulla, it technically does, it just requires more efficient management. It was Pompey's main power base during the First Triumvirate and provided tens of thousands of troops for the Barcids before Rome showed up. Spain also is a good source of metals and grain, two things essential to fielding legions.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Pompey barely made use of it, after all he fled east, and Caesar won it back pretty quickly. As far as the Barcids go, it was taken by mercenaries and held by them while the Barcids forged them into a personal army. When that army left Cartheginian held Spain wasn't looking that hot anymore, being first unable to repulse Roman invaders and then being taken by Scipio. There is a reason Sertorius resorted to a guerilla war in OTL. The march back to Rome would take a while unless he has a fleet to transport the men. In addition I judge the chances that we find ourselves in a defensive war far more likely than us being able to march on Rome.

[X] Plan Stay the Course

Frankly I think people overestimate the danger we are in in the case of a Sullan victory and I don't think Pompey is the boogie man he is made out to be. Will it be dangerous? Yes, but so is basically every scenario outside of us going to Spain, Sulla and Marius both dying and the ruling populares warring among themselves while the optimate cause collapses.
 
Last edited:
[X] Plan Stay the Course
Since this is essentially the same plan as I proposed before this gets my vote.

@Nurgle Your plan includes the Bacchanals twice.
 
[X] Plan Stay the Course

Sertorius' failure to enact his plan in Samnium seems to me to be a harbinger (or a canary in a coal mine) of how successful his plans and ambitions go. I like the guy, but that doesn't mean I want to hitch our star to closely.
 
Telamon said:
Reputation With The Legion: 7/10 -- The giver of laurels and the breaker of the Samnites, the bringer of coin and law, and a capable fighter in your own right -- you are many things to the men of the Sixth Legion, but first and foremost you are the Tribune. They may not all love you, but they respect you.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Going off the above we're only one point below Sertorious in reputation with the Sixth, so with him gone would that mean we would be de facto in charge of the Sixth Legion?
 
Pensive-Nerves said:
Going off the above we're only one point below Sertorious in reputation with the Sixth, so with him gone would that mean we would be de facto in charge of the Sixth Legion?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Probably depends on the guy that gets put in charge with Seratorius gone, but yes with 7/10 we have a good chance to start out better liked than the incoming Legate.
Speaking of Legion reputation, we didn't see how the nat 20 on the Discipline action affected our reputation. We should see boosts to disicpline once we go back on campaign, however I assume it is too much to hope that the crit actually boosted Legion reputation, @Telamon?
 
Last edited:
Do we have an idea on who the army could be assigned to, if not Sertorius? Gnaeus Papirus Carbo and Lucius Valerius Flaccus followed Marius with the 7th and 9th respectively, and
Gaius Marcius Censorinus took the 3rd to southern Gaul.
Who on the Marian side is left to lead a legion? Marius the Lesser and Cinna aren't likely to leave the city.
 
[X] The Quixotic Quest

rather sit out the civil war in Spain surrounded by people predisposed to like us and learning from Sertorius than being in the thick of things and risking being thrown into the grinder.
 
Ridiculously Average Guy said:
rather sit out the civil war in Spain surrounded by people predisposed to like us and learning from Sertorius than being in the thick of things and risking being thrown into the grinder.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
The issue with this is that you're merely postponing the confrontation until one faction or the other wins the civil war and we've been sitting on the sidelines with Sertorius in Spain. Sure, we can build up a base of power in Spain and we might even do better than OTL where Sertorius was being gradually worn down by superior numbers and resources before being murdered by one of his subordinates but I'd rather take my chances now in Rome with Scaevola firmly in our corner and we still have ability of fleeing to Spain if shit really hits the fan.
 
Thyreus said:
Do we have an idea on who the army could be assigned to, if not Sertorius? Gnaeus Papirus Carbo and Lucius Valerius Flaccus followed Marius with the 7th and 9th respectively, and
Gaius Marcius Censorinus took the 3rd to southern Gaul.
Who on the Marian side is left to lead a legion? Marius the Lesser and Cinna aren't likely to leave the city.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Looking at @Caesar's list of important people, there's pretty much only Marcus Marius Gratidianus left. Who currently might be serving as propraetor in one of the provinces, or breaking the laws and getting second term as a praetor. So, him.
 
Reader mode
You must login or register to reply here.
Remove ads
Back
Top