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The Rise of Rome [Major New RP Teaser Everyone Read!]

Unified Sith
18-01-2005, 03:51
In the next few days I will be opening a new rp called Earth Rome. This will be set Two hundred years before Christ. This thread is mainly to enquire general interest and possible candidates for factions. Though the factions featuring in the rp will not be completely historically accurate, I believe the spirit of the game and a new way of rp’ing will give each player a better view of the ancient world.

I’m going to post the introduction just to get you guys interested, along with the factions available.

The rp will feature historical events, characters and random happenings to keep interest and the flavour of the thread alive. I will also have a campaign map, and a key with detailed unit descriptions of the time for those with limited knowledge of Ancient Rome, I can’t guarantee its all correct, but it is in the case of this Rp.

I am looking for two very good rp’rs to play as Carthage and the Greek States. There is still one roman house left open, which is the Brutii.

Well here is the introduction and faction list.

Earth: Rome.

The year is 200bc, and the classical period is at its height. Alexanders Empire in the East has crumbled into a war of successor states, led by the families of his most able lieutenants. Europe is a dark continent, far from the light of "civilisation" preached by the Greeks, Egyptians and Carthaginians, except for one small city state. Rome. Not yet at the height its power, the Rome of this period was involved in the long, bloody conquest of Carthage. the three Punic wars. Still regarded as Barbarians by the Greeks, the Romans of this time are not invincible. Still, one should not underestimate their deep set determination in any war that they embark on.

The Greeks of Hellene still squabble amongst each other, and now exist as a most loose connection of city states in a fragile Hellenic alliance. Again further to the East, Seleucia and Egypt, the two most powerful of Alexanders Kingdoms fight amongst each other, attempting to reforge the Empire. Parthia, even further, is a distant land, and one the Seleucids have their eye on, when the time is right.

In Sicily, Carthage, Rome and Syracuse all share the same small space, and it is only so long until one summons the courage to take the strategic isle for their own.

The isolated continent of Europe is also divided, between the many tribes of the Gauls and Germans, and even further to the North, on the windswept isle of Britain, fearsome barbarians war with each other. Though Rome is the only civilised empire with the ability to reach out and touch the barbarians in Gaul and Germania, it would not be an easy struggle.

Diplomatically speaking, alliances, counter alliances, and diplomatic backstabbing are commonplace. Each Empire has its own agenda, and is not afraid to use every trick in the book to advance it. Half-truths and assassination are the language each ruler must be familiar with.


Factions to Choose from:

Romans julii -Chronosia
Romans brutii
Romans scipii - taken
Egypt - Unified Sith
Seleucid - open
Carthage - Pantera
Parthia - open
Gauls - open
Germans - open
Britons - Guffingford
Greek cities - Jordaxia
Roman Senate - Further Details Pending
Macedon -open
Pontus -open
Armenia - open
Dacia - open
Scythia - open
Iberia (Spain) - open
Thrace - open
Numidia - open

Please for the major factions please put down some links, I can only accept excellent rp’rs for the larger factions such as the Gauls, and Macedonia. I should have posted that in my first post, sorry…
The Zoogie People
18-01-2005, 03:54
I don't have that much time on my hands, but as this is Roman culture, I probably could commit something. Can I take the Numidians? If you need RP links I'll provide you with some.

(edit) Wait, the Gauls are open? o_O I think I'll take the Gauls then. Here's a roleplaying sample (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=387378). The rest of my recent roleplays haven't been...all that...serious...if you really want to find out what I mean... (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=387674)
Unified Sith
18-01-2005, 04:00
Gauls are currently open. I will need rp links if you want to claim them.
Doomingsland
18-01-2005, 04:28
I'm Scipii!
Unified Sith
18-01-2005, 17:33
bump
Momanguise
18-01-2005, 17:39
Can I be Sythia? Please? Please? I'll give you some money, no wait all my money. Here's my house, here's the shirt off my back, wait damnit here's all my clothes, just say YES!!!!!!!!!1!!!
MassPwnage
18-01-2005, 17:41
ooc: Holy shit, someone's been playing Rome:Total War.

I'll take the Brutii.
The Zoogie People
18-01-2005, 23:33
So...am I in? Or not?
Unified Sith
19-01-2005, 00:07
accepted Zoogie people.

here is the link for the main thread http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=390401

Rules, map, and faction listing of the complete updated list is there.
Unified Sith
19-01-2005, 00:08
ooc: Holy shit, someone's been playing Rome:Total War.

I'll take the Brutii.

I will need to see some rp links first if you want the Brutii.
Chronosia
19-01-2005, 00:56
I'm the Julii; you've already seen my Rping Sith :P
Golencia
19-01-2005, 02:19
Can i get Bruttii
Unified Sith
19-01-2005, 02:54
Can i get Bruttii

I will need a link to some rp's showing your ability. I'm looking for decent writing, and sportsmanship.

Please post your request in the following thread from now on. The link for the new thread is here.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=7975559#post7975559
The Great Sixth Reich
19-01-2005, 03:04
Are you sure you want to combine all the Greek City-States?

I'd be Sparta if I got the chance, but they are all combined it looks like...
Unified Sith
19-01-2005, 03:07
Yeah, Sparta has been in high demand, but why not choose the Selucids, they are really just the same, after Alexanders Empire failed it broke up into parts. The Selucids are just the same as the Greek states but with War Elephants.

Have i tempted you?
The Great Sixth Reich
19-01-2005, 03:09
Because I just came back from a Model United Nations Conference as Sparta... and since Athens had the nerve to kill Thenycrates, I want to bathe in their blood for week! ;)
MassPwnage
19-01-2005, 15:23
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=386284

Ice Cream Havoc in Toku City. :p

Don't worry man, i'm a history buff, I'm good with historical RPs such as this, and yes, I own Rome:Total War.

Familiar with www.totalwar.org?
Unified Sith
19-01-2005, 16:28
Sorry, Tomzilla got the Brutii before you. the Selucids, Parthians and Pontus are still open.