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Orongis (212 BC)Scenario#: C3i04 Date: 212-BC Location: Orongis, SpainMago Barca began the Second Punic War as a subordinate commander under his brother Hannibal. In 215 he was given command of his own army, and sent to Spain to reinforce his other brother, Hasdrubal. Mago fought a series of … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #19 |
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Pharsalus (48 BC)Scenario#: 315 Date: 48-BC Location: Farsala, GreeceAfter Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar pulled back to regroup his army. Gnaeus Pompey failed to follow up his victory and pursued slowly. After a winter of maneuvering through Thessaly, Pompey encamped at the foot of the mountains near Pharsalus and was … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars |
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Philippi I (42 BC)Scenario#: 403 Date: 42-BC Location: Filippoi, GreeceCaesar’s assassination plunged the Roman world into chaos and civil war. On one side was the Second Triumvirate of Mark Anthony, Aemilius Lepidus, and Octavian, Caesar’s nephew, which aimed to avenge Caesar’s murder. Opposing them were the assassins… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Philippi II (42 BC)Scenario#: 404 Date: 42-BC Location: Filippoi, GreeceAfter the first battle of Philippi, a fleet bringing supplies to Anthony and Octavian’s army was destroyed and supplies for the Triumvirate legions began running out. Brutus was content to watch the army of Antony and Octavian starve. However, the … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Picenum (72 BC)Scenario#: 210 Date: 72-BC Location: Marche, ItalyFollowing 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 |
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Plain of Alsace (58 BC)Scenario#: 307 Date: 58-BC Location: Alsace, FranceAriovistus was the chief of the Germanic Suebi tribe. He led his tribesmen across the Rhine into Gaul at the invitation of some warring Gallic tribes. Once in Gaul, Ariovistus called on his German allies, the Harudes, Marcomanni, Triboci, Vangiones,… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars |
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Po River (203 BC)Scenario#: C3i06 Date: 203-BC Location: Po Valley, ItalyFollowing Scipio’s victory at Ilipa in 206 Mago once again sailed to the Balearic Isles to recruit mercenaries. Then, rather than fall back to Africa, as everyone expected, Mago launched the third Barcid invasion of Italy. With new levies from … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #19 |
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Pydna (168 BC)Scenario#: 124 Date: 168-BC Location: Pydna, GreeceThe Roman victory at Cynoscephalae (197) had humbled, but not eliminated, the Macedonian army. As the reality of Roman world domination became clear, most of Greece rallied to support Perseus, the son of Philip V. The Third Macedonian War broke … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms |
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Raphia (217 BC)Scenario#: 119 Date: 217-BC Location: Raphia, Gaza StripThe Wars of the Successors led to the establishment of three Hellenistic Kingdoms: the Antigonids (Macedon), the Ptolemies (Egypt) and the Seleucids (from Asia Minor to India). The Seleucid Empire began to fragment, losing Judea and most of its… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms |
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Raphia (217 BC)Scenario#: 503 Date: 217-BC Location: Raphia, Gaza StripThe Wars of the Successors led to the establishment of three Hellenistic Kingdoms: the Antigonids (Macedon), the Ptolemies (Egypt), and the Seleucids (from Asia Minor to India). The Seleucid Empire began to fragment, losing Judea and most of its… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II |
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River Sabis (57 BC)Scenario#: 215 Date: 57-BC Location: Saulzoir, FranceGaius Julius Caesar formed a political alliance with Gnaeus Pompey and Licinius Crassus that became known as the “First Triumvirate.” Caesar obtained the governorship of Gaul as a proconsul, and immediately set about expanding his province from the… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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River Stour (54 BC)Scenario#: 218 Date: 54-BC Location: Kent, EnglandIn 54 BC, Caesar launched a second invasion of Britain which was better planned and far more formidable than the first one. The invasion force consisted of five legions, auxiliaries, and 2000 cavalry, transported on 800 vessels. The Britons, awed … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Ruspina (46 BC)Scenario#: 317 Date: 46-BC Location: Monastir, TunisiaFollowing his victory over Pharnaces at Zela, Julius Caesar returned to Rome where a crisis was brewing – the surviving veterans had grown very war-weary and were refusing orders to deploy overseas yet again. Caesar’s personal appeal sparked a… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars |
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Scirthaea (103 BC)Scenario#: 205 Date: 103-BC Location: Caltabellotta, SicilyThe 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 |
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Silarus (71 BC)Scenario#: 214 Date: 71-BC Location: Silarus, ItalySpartacus 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 |
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Sotium (56 BC)Scenario#: 216 Date: 56-BC Location: Gulf of Morbihan, FranceFollowing two years of successful campaigning, Caesar believed he had pacified southern and western Gaul and left for Illyria. Sensing an opportunity, the Veneti and neighboring tribes on the Atlantic coast rebelled. These coastal tribes had their… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Sucro (75 BC)Scenario#: 305 Date: 75-BC Location: Valentia, SpainGnaeus Pompey had regained his confidence after his victory at Valentia, and now moved quickly to engage Quintus Sertorius before Quintus Caecilius Metellus could arrive with his reinforcing army and share in the honor of victory. Sertorius was… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars |
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Telamon (225 BC)Scenario#: 202 Date: 225-BC Location: Talamone, ItalyAenorestes and Concolitanus retreated northwards, pursued by Aemilius Papus with about 30,000 troops. It looked like the Gauls would escape with their booty. Then fortune smiled on Rome. The consul Atilius Regulus was returning from suppressing a… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Thapsus (46 BC)Scenario#: 318 Date: 46-BC Location: Thapsus, TunisiaFollowing his set-back at Ruspina, Julius Caesar spent some time regrouping before making a surprise night march of 16 miles and camping near the Pompeian-held coastal town of Thapsus. Caesar immediately placed Thapsus under siege. Though numerically… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars |
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Ticinus River (218 BC)Scenario#: 4 Date: 218-BC Location: Ticinus River, ItalyHannibal has completed his epic march across the Alps, but has lost fully half of his soldiers in doing so. The Consul in Southern Gaul, Publius Scipio, has shadowed Hannibal’s advance following the coastal route. He intercepts Hannibal in Northern … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients |
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Tigranocerta (69 BC)Scenario#: 401 Date: 69-BC Location: Diyarbakır, TurkeyMithridates VI of Pontus challenged Rome for control of Asia Minor and Greece while the Romans were distracted in the Italian War. Although Rome defeated Mithridates in the First and Second Mithridatic Wars, he was allowed to maintain his kingdom … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Trebbia (218 BC)Scenario#: 5 Date: 212-BC Location: Trebbia, ItalyAfter the battle at the Ticinus River, Hannibal soon faced an entire Roman army under the Consul Sempronius. As vain as he was inept, Sempronius wanted a victory to finish our his year as Consul. He took no cautionary advise … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients |
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Umbria (217 BC)Scenario#: C3i10 Date: 217-BC Location: Lake Trasimene, ItalyEven as one Roman army under Flaminius was being butchered by Hannibal’s troops at Lake Trasimenus in 217 BC, his colleague Gnaeus Servilius Geminus was racing to reinforce his fellow consul. Servilius Geminus hoped to trap Hannibal between the two … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #21 |
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Utica P1 Delaying Action (49 BC)Scenario#: 310 Date: 49-BC Location: Utica, TunisiaThe First Triumverate of Crassus, Pompey and Julius Caesar collapsed soon after Crassus was defeated and killed by the Parthians at Carrhae in 53 BC. With Crassus gone, the rivalry between Pompey and Caesar steadily grew until civil war erupted … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars |
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Utica P2 The Valley (49 BC)Scenario#: 311 Date: 49-BC Location: Utica, TunisiaCaesar had sent his general, Gaius Curio, to attack Pompey’s lieutenant, Attius Varus, in Africa. Varus was in camp below the walls of Utica. When a relief army sent by King Juba of Numidia arrived to reinforce Varus, Curio had … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars |
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Valentia (75 BC)Scenario#: 304 Date: 75-BC Location: Valentia, SpainIn the campaigns fought in Spain following the battle of Lauron, Quintus Sertorius proved to be a superior general to Gnaeus Pompey. However, Pompey recognized that even if he couldn’t defeat Sertorius, he could defeat his lieutenants. Pompey had… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars |
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Vercellae (101 BC)Scenario#: 207 Date: 101-BC Location: Vercellae, ItalyFollowing his victory over the Teutons and Ambrones at the Battle of Aquae Sextiae, Gaius Marius moved east to join Quintus Lutatius Catulus against the Cimbri in the Po valley of northern Italy. Beorix, the Cimbri king, had been waiting … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Zama (202 BC)Scenario#: 15 Date: 202-BC Location: Siliana, TunisiaCarthage is on the verge of defeat. Spain has been lost. Scipio has landed in Africa and beaten a large, but inexperienced, Carthaginian army at the Battle of the Great Plains, and Masinissa with his vaunted Numidian light horse has … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients |
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Zama (202 BC)Scenario#: 504 Date: 202-BC Location: Siliana, TunisiaCarthage is on the verge of defeat. Spain has been lost, Scipio has landed in Africa and beaten a large, but inexperienced, Carthaginian army at the Battle of the Great Plains. Masinissa has taken his vaunted Numidian light horse over … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II |
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Zela (47 BC)Scenario#: 316 Date: 47-BC Location: Zile, TurkeyFollowing his decisive victory at Pharsalus, Julius Caesar pursued Gnaeus Pompey to Egypt. Pompey was assassinated, effectively ending the civil war in the Eastern Mediterranean, but Caesar became involved in factional fighting in Alexandria in… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #3: The Roman Civil Wars |