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Hi mate. sorry for delay, game set up

Foreign Invasion

Sarmatian 25 – 375 AD attack Pannonia (III) (random27)

PW: random

Ciao
XLegione

kronenblatt beat Doyley50 61-52 and gains control over Lusitania et Baetica.

Through the loss of his one remaining province, Doyley Augustus is eliminated from the game of the purple. Many thanks, Doyley50, and hope you enjoyed this tournament!

Battles during summer, year 1 (round 2)

Roman Civil War Battles
Warg1 attacks random27. Attacker stakes Graecia et Thracia (VII) & Asia (XI). Defender stakes Dalmatia (II) & Pannonia (III).
TomoeGozen attacks kronenblatt. Attacker stakes Aegyptus (XVII). Defender stakes Cyrenaica (XVI).
pompeytheflatulent attacks rs2excelsior. Attacker stakes Gallia (IV) & Germania (VIII). Defender stakes Italia (I).
Doyley50 attacks kronenblatt. Attacker stakes Lusitania et Baetica. Defender stakes Mauretania.

Foreign Invasion Battles
Germanic invasion of Germania (VIII) vs pompeytheflatulent by rs2excelsior.
Scots-Irish invasion of Britannia by vs pompeytheflatulent by random27.
Sarmatian invasion of Pannonia (III) vs random27 by XLegione.
Parthian invasion of Syria et Arabia (XV) vs Warg1 by kronenblatt.

Warg1 defeats random27 41 - 2

Adding Dalmatia (II) & Pannonia (III) to the real estate portfolio

Warg1's victory results in the elimination of Random Augustus from the game of the purple. Many thanks for participating, random27, hope you had a fun time!

Consequently, the map along with kronenblatt's victory over Doyley50 and loss to TomoeGozen currently looks as follows:

I have two to report:

Forces of Augustus Pompeius Flatulus defeated the German invasion in Germania 43-11. Amalaric son of Amalaric led his warriors to meet the Romans by a riverbank, using the river to secure the left flank while the lightly armed warbands attempted to rush forward into the woods on the Roman right, and from there turn the flank. However, the Roman commander had cunningly hidden the bulk of his cavalry forces in the woods, and their appearance on the largely open German right flank threw the attack into disarray. However, the brave German warriors pressed on. Some of the warbands had local successes in pushing the Romans back, but in the end Roman discipline won out - the warbands began to fracture as their war-leaders fell against the Roman shield walls, and as units in the main line fractured and the Roman cavalry wreaked havoc on the German right the panic spread. Amalaric watched from across the river as his army disintegrated. He managed to flee Roman pursuit with his personal horsemen, and scraped up what he could of the army after the battle. He managed to make it back across the Rhine before the Roman pursuit could catch him, but was assassinated by rival chieftains not long after what was left of the army crossed the river.

Meanwhile, Augustus Pompeius Flatulus himself was leading an invasion of Italy, and Augustus Libernius Tiberius Excelsior Optatus the Younger marched out to meet him. Unfortunately, the younger Libernius didn't seem to have much more luck than his late father, and was defeated 42-2. Libernius initially deployed in a defensive position on a ridge, anchored by two large villas occupied by auxilia. Pompeius's forces made a move to outflank Libernius's left, so Libernius moved up - first to take a new defensive position at a 45 degree angle to the first one, then to attack Pompeius's forces as they marched in column before being able to properly deploy. Unfortunately the young Augustus suffered defeats on every front - his skirmishers were driven off, his cavalry force on the left was decisively destroyed as the horsemen failed to withdraw from a very problematic engagement, the enemy horse was able to loop around the right flank, the left flank infantry was outflanked and defeated, and the right flank infantry did not manage to catch the enemy out of position - those were the only ones to meet with any kind of success, but it was far too little to compensate for the army's catastrophic performance everywhere else. Libernius the Younger fled the battle on horseback, and snuck off to a waiting ship. Rumor has it he is in hiding with friends in the Aegean islands, possibly maneuvering to get in the good graces of whichever Augustus seems likely to prevail...

Good games to pompeytheflatulent - I got outplayed in both matches, I have to admit. There were a few places where a bad roll or a cav unit which didn't disengage made things worse, but I can't pretend that anything other than our relative generalship was the main factor here. That 42-2 loss in particular might be the most thorough, one-sided thrashing I've gotten in MP... and I can't blame the matchup, as the armies were identical!

Thanks again to kronenblatt for organizing and all of y'all for playing! It's been fun, despite my less than stellar performance. But this is me done (for the second time, haha!), so I will watch to see how it shakes out! Best of luck, and may the best general win!

rs2excelsior wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:12 am

Many thanks for a wonderfully entertaining reports! Wonder what the next generations of Augustus Libernius Tiberius Excelsior Optatus will come up with; my research reveals that one of them successfully served Emperor Zeno in Constantinople in 476 AD and was one of the most prominent imperial generals during Zeno's reign. So maybe East Rome in The West is No More for you? Then your family can also get your revenge upon the Pompeii Flatulii, their descendants actually having joined the Burgundians already in 406 AD, waiting and welcoming the invading barbarians at a very cold New Year's Eve night, on the very same beach of the river Rhine where his ancestor once fought and defeated the Burgundian Amalaric son of Amalaric. ... Quae fuerunt vitia, mores sunt...

So Zeno and The West is No More are waiting upon you!

pompeytheflatulent's victory results in the elimination of the House of Libernius Tiberius Excelsior Optatus from the game of the purple, and the political map thus looks as follows:

XLegione wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:56 pm

@XLegione and @random27: are you still fighting out the Foreign Invasion of the Sarmatians into Pannonia (III), or did you cancel it due to random's elimination?

kronenblatt wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:30 am Many thanks for a wonderfully entertaining reports!

Thanks! I'm getting thrashed on the battlefield, might as well have a bit of fun as I'm reporting my defeats, haha.

I will consider jumping into the 5th century tournament - I might have enough on my plate right now with the DL back in swing, I'll see. If I do I think I would pick the Byzantines, I've had some success with them in the league in the past...

Hi mates, some news from Pannonia....

Sarmatians defeated the roman army, 42% - 0%

I have not realised yet the consequence of this victory, Kronenblatt I wait for your feedback.

Ciao

XLegione

XLegione wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 5:23 pm Hi mates, some news from Pannonia....

Sarmatians defeated the roman army, 42% - 0%

I have not realised yet the consequence of this victory, Kronenblatt I wait for your feedback.

Ciao

XLegione

Congrats on your victory, XLegione! But no major practical benefits or consequences unfortunately, since your reward is that you can make one additional attack declaration, i.e., two next round. Of course, you can make a normal attack declaration and a foreign invasion on top of that (Warg1 is refrained from make any attack declarations next round due to my Foreign Invasion victory over him, so his neighbour provinces are all game, unless someone else attacks them before you).

EDIT: You can only make one Foreign Invasion per tournament, which you have already done, so no one left unfortunately.

Foreign Invasion:

Scots-Irish invasion of Britannia by vs pompeytheflatulent by random27.

random27 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:06 pm Brittania by scots irish

pompeytheflatulent wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:02 pm ... I assume random27 can't attack other than use foreign invasion since all of his provinces are at stake?...

How is this Foreign Invasion of Scots-Irish into Britannia progressing? Can't recall that I've heard whether it's concluded or cancelled.

Still ongoing. A late start, the first Scots-Irish army stumbled into a time warp and ended up in the 3rd Century BC.

pompeytheflatulent wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:59 pm Still ongoing. A late start, the first Scots-Irish army stumbled into a time warp and ended up in the 3rd Century BC.

Ah, ok. Take your time: just wanted to check up on you.

kronenblatt wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:43 pm Foreign Invasion:

Scots-Irish invasion of Britannia by vs pompeytheflatulent by random27.

random27 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:06 pm Brittania by scots irish

pompeytheflatulent wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:02 pm ... I assume random27 can't attack other than use foreign invasion since all of his provinces are at stake?...

How is this Foreign Invasion of Scots-Irish into Britannia progressing? Can't recall that I've heard whether it's concluded or cancelled.

pompeytheflatulent wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:59 pm Still ongoing. A late start, the first Scots-Irish army stumbled into a time warp and ended up in the 3rd Century BC.

Is this battle moving towards a conclusion?

Sorry, it was done a few days ago and I completely forgot about it. Romans won 40-13. Sorry for the hold-up.

pompeytheflatulent wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:51 pm Sorry, it was done a few days ago and I completely forgot about it. Romans won 40-13. Sorry for the hold-up.

No probs, pompey! Glad you concluded the battle. Next round upcoming...

Autumn, year 1 (round 3)

Order of attack announcements
1. TomoeGozen (61%, won vs. kronenblatt) (Nov. 1)
2. kronenblatt (61%, lost vs. TomoeGozen) can make 2 declarations (Nov. 2)
3. pompeytheflatulent (43%) can make 3 declarations (Nov. 3)
4. XLegione (42%) can make 2 declarations (Nov. 4)

Warg1 lost a Foreign invasion and has thus zero attack declarations this round.

Once attack announcements have been made, battles are resolved simultaneously during a three-week period of Nov. 6 - Nov. 27 (see Battles in the rules).
(If all battles have been resolved before that, round 4 may commence earlier, but plan for first order of attack announcements on Dec. 1).

Please note that:

• Date (midnight CET (Rome) time) above indicates deadline, after which opportunity to announce attack is forfeited and the player below may announce attack.

• If a player above has announced an attack, then player next in line is free and is encouraged to announce attack to, up to his deadline, i.e., if the players before you have announced attacks, don't wait for your deadline to announce your own attacks but instead do so speedily so battles can start as soon as possible.

• A province already included as a province-at-stake in another player's attack this round may neither be attacked nor attacked from nor constitute a province-at-stake in the attack in question, unless it's a Foreign invasion.

• Depending on the higher of the number of attacker's or defender's controlled provinces, more provinces are added to the provinces-at-stake for the battle:
  • 1-3 controlled provinces: 0 additional provinces-at-stake.
  • 4-5 controlled provinces: 1 additional province-at-stake from each of attacker and defender.
  • 6-7 controlled provinces: 2 additional provinces-at-stake from each of attacker and defender.

• Since Warg1 controls 6 provinces and pompeytheflatulent 5 provinces, many provinces will be at stake if any of these are involved. Thus, all battles that involve Warg1 will stake two additional provinces from each of the defender and attacker, i.e., three provinces-at-stake from each, and six in total. (Dramatic, I know!) For battles involving pompeytheflatulent (and not Warg1), stake one additional province from each of the defender and attacker, i.e., two provinces-at-stake from each, and four in total.
  • Same 'neighbouring' rules as before apply for attacks and staking provinces.
  • If a player doesn't have enough provinces to stake, then all available provinces from that player will be staked, even if that means staking fewer provinces than the enemy (hypothetical example, in battle between XLegione and Warg1, XLegione can only stake one province, but Warg1 must still stake three provinces (if he still has three provinces unstaked at the time of XLegione's attack)).

Enjoy! And if you have any questions, please post in the thread for everyone to see question and answer.

All or nothing!

Tomoegozen attacks Warg1 in Syria et Arabia from Aegyptus. I stake Aegyptus and Cyrenaica , Warg 1 presumably stakes Syria et Arabia , Cappadocia and Asia.

TomoeGozen wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:56 pm All or nothing!

Tomoegozen attacks Warg1 in Syria et Arabia from Aegyptus. I stake Aegyptus and Cyrenaica , Warg 1 presumably stakes Syria et Arabia , Cappadocia and Asia.

Finally! If you'd attacked me again, I would have taken it personally...!