NationStates Jolt Archive

The year is 270 B.C. Rome has succeeded in uniting the Italian Peninsula and is one of, if not the, dominant land powers in the region. Carthage is the dominant naval power. The Greek cities and barbarian tribes struggle to maintain their independence while the successor states of Alexander's empire have their eyes set upon regaining the power and glory of Alexander. Who will emerge victorious? Only time will tell.

OOC: Okay, that will do. Everybody ready to start?

I'm ready to role! :cool:! but we still have to wait for the others none of them are loged on.

Elite battle hordes please stay on so we can start as soon as some people log on O.k. Oh ya and also I'm more stealthy like attacking in the night so can I telegram you instead of posting it here so that people don't know I'm going to attack them and then when they discover me you can tell them.

The Helvatians have lived in their native lands for years. Seeing the threat of other civilizations, the Helvatians have created a powerful army, but have not started to use it, as they wish to avoid a long and costly war.

Sorry I'm late.

The Selucid Empire, ah. One of the Diadochi, and a successor to Alexander the Great. The Selucids, not on easy terms with Macedon or the Egyptians, plan to rebuild diplomatic ties with them.

The Selucids are building themselves up, will it pay off?

The scotish tribe of the calodonii has been warned that several other civilisations have started readying themselves for war and have decided to respond in kind by starting to gathering land, power and a larger army to crush these empires if ever thier threat is to great or they try to spring any kind of attack thier land!

Can they destroy the miety civilisations that threaten them or with they be crushed and utterely destroyed?

Oh damn it I just remembered I'm going to my cottage tommorow and I'm coming back at the end of sunday so I won't be able to play those days and I'll only be on in the earlyish morning and the latish afternoon for two weeks onward from then! I'm leaving at 12 A.M. tomorow to go to my cottage so I'll only be able to play till then then not at all till monday! For the time I'm gone please just don't attack me and just make it like I'm just not realy doing anything that would be realy nice. Sry for not telling you before damn mind :headbang: it deserves to die :gundge:!

OOC: That's fine. Don't worry, you are too far away for anyone to be likely to attack you at this point. Anyway, someone want to start a war or something? I believe the Seluceids were interested in attacking Armenia...

OOC: Why is everyone stating the obvious, if you wanted to tell your country then do so in the ooc/sign-up thread. You guys just made this entire thread pretty much anything but an IC thread...oi...whatever. Good luck.

IC:

The sun rose over the land to the liking of a rising flame. The cool fresh breeze from the sea blew strongly this day, the sea birds calling out to others. Ships from every known corner of the world were at harbor, more were sailing in and out of the great bay. Hundreds of people, merchants, workers, farmers, soldiers, explorers, and others walked through, out, and in the great city of Carthage.

Egyptian scholars argued with Greek philosphers, Roman workmen helped build a new home with a group of Numidian laborers, Carthaginian senators and merchants haggled over prices in the large market place at the center of the city. Groups of Macedonian soldiers walked out of a recruiting house for the Carthage Home Guard along with a group of men from Crete.

Standing on the balcony of his grand home near the center of the city Hamilcar Barcid watched all this happening below. His beloved city was just beginning to start up its teeming vibrant life with the dawn of the new day. Hamilcar turned and walked into his study.

It was a large room, attired with Egyptian furniture and carpets from Seleucid it was one of Hamilcar's favourite rooms. Around the room were a dozen marble busts of past family members of the Barcid family. Hamilcar walked up to the one that was carved in the image of his father. His father's great beard and war helmet seemed to fit him so perfectly, describing him in death as he had been in life.

Since the founding of Carthage the Barcid family had been one to step forward and be both champion for the people and defenders of Carthage against its foreign enemies. The Barcid family had a long and glorious history. One that was filled with blood and dead.

Hamilcar sighed and walked out of his study and into the main family room. There his beautiful wife lay on a couch, a cup of wine in her hand. She smiled.

"Well husband, it would seem you will be busy today."

Hamilcar frowned. "What do you mean?"

He walked over to her and sat on the couch. She took out from behind her a scroll. Hamilcar took it and looked at the seal. It was from the Council. He looked up at his wife.

"It came by currier not long ago. He said that you were to send a reply as soon as possible," his wife said.

Hamilcar broke the seal and unravelled the scroll. He scanned it quickly and read those who had signed it at the bottom. He rolled it back up and looked at his wife.

"I believe I will be leaving for longer than just today. I think the Council wants a war."

There is a Samnite uprising in Italy. The Roman Consul Gaius Fabius leads nearly fifteen thousand men to put it down. The force consists of 2,000 Triarii, 4,000 Principes, 4,000 Hastatii, 4,000 Velites. With a second army of 500 Equites to meet up with them shortly. Several towns have already suffred hundreds of dead or wounded and the local guard are overwelmed by the hordes of Samnite peasants running amok. The peasants are encouraged by the presence of a large hastily assembled force of Samnite warriors with mediocre training supplemented by a small veteran core. Their force consists of 12,000 spearmen, and 4,000 skirmishers.

The Samnite army placed itself on top of a hill so the Romans would have to fight at a disadvantage. The Romans, however, had their own plans. The Roman army entered a nearby Samnite village, relieving the local Roman guard of their troubles by slaughtering the populace. They then moved on to another nearby village to slaughter that populace. As the Romans expected the Samnite army left their safe position to defend their people, and in some cases, families.

The two armies met on a flat plain just outside the village. The Samnites advanced to relieve the village, giving them the inititive. But the after their scouts reported the Samnites leaving the hill the Romans had dug in for the coming battle and thus were well defended. The Roman's fewer numbers meant that their line was spread somewhat thin.

The Roman velites and Samnite skirmishers engaged first. The results were inconclusive. The Romans lost around five hundred troops and the Samnites only two hundred, but the Romans had conserved some of their ammunition while the Samnites had not. Next the Samnite spearmen advanced with the skirmishers guarding their flanks. The Romans threw their pila at the spearmen and then stepped over their defences and charged. The Samnites were suprised by this apparent change in strategy and began to give ground. The veteran core barely managed to steady them and regain the inititive.

Now the greater depth of the Samnite line was showing. They began to push the Romans back towards their defenses. Their skirmishers taking all the punishment of the remaining Velite missiles. After running out of missiles the Velites charged and pushed the Samnite skirmishers back away from their main battle line. The main Roman line was nearly pushed back into its defenses which would be hard to step over backward, which would cause them to trip and be slaughtered. Fortunately the Velites were faring better, as they continued to push the Samnite skirmishers back.

Finally the Roman Equites arrived. They been traveling south towards another village that was the original meeting place between them and the main Roman army when word came that the Samnite army had left its hill. They quickly raced to the aid of the main Roman army. Now they came up from behind the Samnite army. When the Samnite Skirmishers saw them they fled, worried that they were the target. The Equites ignored the skirmishers and went straight for the spearmen. They were soon followed by the Velites who realized that they were needed instead of chasing the routing skirmishers.

The main Roman battle line was less than a dozen feet from the defenses when the Equites, soon followed by the Velites impacted the spearmen. This only served to push the Romans a few more feet towards the defenses at first. But soon the Samnites began to flee. Escaping through the gaps between the Equites and Velites. In mere minutes the whole of the Samnite army had began to route. The main Roman line had come within inches of the defenses. Now the Equites chased down and killed as many of the routing Samnites as they could.

After the battle the surviving Samnite army dispersed. Without them the rest of the rebellion died out. The Romans enslaved some of the populous of the Samnite villages and dispersed the remainder across southern Italy.

With the Samnite uprising defeated Rome was now master of Italy south of the Arnus River.