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Bruttium (71 BC) Scenario#: 212 Date: 71-BC Location: Strongoli, Italy Spartacus retreated through Lucania into Bruttium and toward the sea. He encamped at Rhegium where he attempted to gain passage to Sicily with the help of some Cilician pirate ships. Spartacus judged he could open a new front against Rome … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Camalatrum (71 BC) Scenario#: 213 Date: 71-BC Location: Basilicata, Italy After Spartacus escaped the Roman siege in Bruttium, the Gallic section of his slave army moved separately under the command of Cannicus and Castus. Marcus Licinius Crassus was now in a race, not only with the enemy, but also with … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Mt Garganus (72 BC) Scenario#: 209 Date: 72-BC Location: Mt. Garganus, Italy Spartacus was an able strategist, and he knew that his rag-tag army could not expect to defy Rome indefinitely. Spartacus planned to escape from Roman territory over the Alps, and headed north through Apulia. He divided his ever-growing army and … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Mt Vesuvius (73 BC) Scenario#: 208 Date: 73-BC Location: Mt. Vesuvius, Italy The greatest slave revolt against Rome was led by a gladiator named Spartacus. He was a Thracian slave, trained as a gladiator by his owner, Lentulus Batiatus, at a gladiatorial school near Capua. Spartacus escaped from the school with 78 … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Mummius Defeat (72 BC) Scenario#: 211 Date: 72-BC Location: Abruzzo, Italy In the autumn of 72 BC, Marcus Licinius Crassus was chosen by the Senate to lead the war against Spartacus’ slave army. Crassus, a leading politician, was also rumored to be the richest man in Rome. How all this would … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Picenum (72 BC) Scenario#: 210 Date: 72-BC Location: Marche, Italy Following the defeat of his lieutenant Crixus, Spartacus continued north for the Alps, passing through Picenum. Two Roman armies moved against him. From the south, the consul Lucius Gellius Publicola pursued with his army, fresh from his victory at… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Scirthaea (103 BC) Scenario#: 205 Date: 103-BC Location: Caltabellotta, Sicily The fiercest Slave revolt outbreak, before Spartacus, was known as the Second Sicilian Slave War (104-100 BC). Publius Licinius Nerva, governor of Sicily, in accordance with a Senatorial order that no citizen of an allied state could be kept as … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Silarus (71 BC) Scenario#: 214 Date: 71-BC Location: Silarus, Italy Spartacus found his army trapped between the armies of Marcus Licinius Crassus to his front and Gnaeus Pompey, approaching from the rear. Crassus had started construction of his camp when a skirmish between the two armies escalated into a full … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians