Vae Victis - Romans vs. Etruscans: Ongoing

[Chris Townsend]

Two can play at the city diplomacy game:

Vulci is entirely unpersuaded by the influence of the Roman army and votes overwhelmingly (DR 10) for neutrality.

Over to Etruscans.

[teodor6100]

Vulci is in fact friendly for the romans with a d10 roll, I guess that kind of makes up for your armies losing cohesion when trying to retreat before or after battle. Very unfortunate for us, we will give our answer.

[teodor6100]

Etruscan side tried to take back the city of Vulci.

Roll is 3 => 3 + 4 (momentum) +1 (friendly army next to the city) + 1 (friendly city connected via road) -1 (hostile city connected via road) = 8 => The city of Vulci becomes neutral.

[ilpars]

City of Vulci turned to Neutral during Roman side.
In Etruscan turn it turned to be friendly to Etruscan side.

[ilpars]

Y2O7. Roman city Diplomacy to Vulci.
Roman diplomacy failed (rolled 2). Vulci is still friendly to Etruscan side.

Over to Etrusk.

[teodor6100]

But a dice roll of 10 always results in a positive outcome and will change the status of a hostile or neutral city to friendly. Chris rolled a 10, the city switched to roman control on that turn, then neutral on ours since we didn't get a dice roll with the modifiers to the sum of 12 or above. I would love for it to be as you say in this situation, but it isn't.

[Maeglyr]

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12+ or a natural 10 make the "allegiance" of the City moves by +2.
If Hostile is -1, Neutral is 0 and Friendly is +1, so a natural ten is -1 + 2 = +1, so Friendly !

[Maeglyr]

Year 2 - Operation 7 - Etruscans - Faction Diplomacy

We invite our beloved hill tribes to join us to feast on the way to Rome.

- roll 1 - automatic failure.

Somehow, the Etruscan ambassador managed to die on the way, leaving a wife, children,
and a dodecapolis (minus one) prey to grief.