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Placentia (271 AD)Scenario#: 419 Date: 271-AD Location: Piacenza, ItalyAurelian became emperor in 270, and is remembered as one of the “soldier-emperors” who restored the empire after its near collapse. During his five-year reign, Aurelian re-united the empire after two-thirds of the provinces had broken away from… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Fano (271 AD)Scenario#: 420 Date: 271-AD Location: Fano, ItalyAfter his serious defeat at the Battle of Placentia at the hands of the Alemanni, Emperor Aurelian rallied and re-grouped his troops and started in pursuit. The Alemanni were moving towards Rome, producing great fear in the city. Rome had … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Pavia (271 AD)Scenario#: 421 Date: 271-AD Location: Pavia, ItalyAfter the victory at Fano, Emperor Aurelian sent his troops in pursuit of the defeated Alemanni horde, which was racing back to its homeland. Aurelian had the mountain passes blocked and then proceeded to destroy almost the entire Alemanni army. … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Immae (272 AD)Scenario#: 422 Date: 272-AD Location: Antioch, TurkeyThe Palmyrene Empire (260–273) consisted of the (former) eastern Roman provinces of Syria, Palestine, and large parts of Asia Minor. This breakaway kingdom was ruled by the famous Queen Zenobia and had won many victories over the Sassanids, while… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Milvian Bridge (312 AD)Scenario#: 423 Date: 312-AD Location: Rome, ItalyWhile emperor Diocletian’s “Tetrarchy” system of shared power maintained calm for 20 years, eventually rivalries took over again. In 306 Maxentius proclaimed himself emperor, setting off another confused civil war. He gained great power when F.V… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Cibalae (314 AD)Scenario#: 424 Date: 314-AD Location: Vinkovci, CroatiaIn the years after Milvian Bridge, Constantine gradually consolidated his military superiority. Licinius emerged as Constantine’s chief rival. After defeating Daia, Licinius gained control over the entire eastern half of the Roman Empire. Relations… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Paraitacene (317 BC)Scenario#: C3i22 Date: 317-BC Location: Eisfahan, PersiaBy 318 BC the Successors had formed two competing alliances: the ‘Royalists’ who claimed to fight to maintain the empire for Alexander’s infant sons, and a rival coalition that sought to claim their own independent kingdoms. The opposing Successor… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #26 |
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Argentoratum (357 AD)Scenario#: C3i21 Date: 357-AD Location: Alsace, FranceJulian, the young cousin of the Emperor Constantius, has been named to recover the situation in the West after a short civil war opened the frontier to raids and invasion by Franks and Alamanni tribes. Scarcely 23, with no military … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #26 |
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Adrianople (378 AD)Scenario#: C3i19 Date: 378-AD Location: Adrianople, TurkeyA collection of mostly Goth tribes with some allies petitioned Valens to be allowed land and foederati status to escape the Huns. Valens badly needed allies and agreed, aided in the decision because the Goth leader, Fritigern, had accepted… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #25 |
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Adrianople (378 AD)Scenario#: C3i20 Date: 378-AD Location: Adrianople, TurkeyA collection of mostly Goth tribes with some allies petitioned Valens to be allowed land and foederati status to escape the Huns. Valens badly needed allies and agreed, aided in the decision because the Goth leader, Fritigern, had accepted… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #25 |
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Medway (43 AD)Scenario#: 407 Date: 43-AD Location: Kent, EnglandIn 43 AD, Aulus Plautius led an expedition of four legions to Britain. His army advanced with only minor skirmishing as far as Rutupiae on the coast of Kent. Late in the season, Roman scouts finally found the enemy camped … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Cefn Carnedd (51 AD)Scenario#: 223 Date: 51-AD Location: Powys, WalesThe Roman conquest of Britain had been underway for four years when a new Roman commander, Publius Ostorius Scapula, was assigned to the province in 47 AD. He faced an on-going insurgency, led by Caratacus, chieftain of the Cautuvellauni tribe. … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Mona Insulis (60 AD)Scenario#: C3i17 Date: 60-AD Location: Monastir, WalesThe island of Anglesey (Ynys Mon to the Welsh and Mona Insulis to the Romans), rich in grain and copper mines, became a refuge for several tribes opposed to the Roman occupation of Britain. The druids there gave moral and … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #24 |
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Camulodunum (60 AD)Scenario#: C3i18 Date: 60-AD Location: Camulodunum, EnglandQueen Boudica led her army of rebels, predominantly Iceni and Trinovantes, to Camulodunum, once the Trinovante capital and now the Roman capital after the Roman invasion of Britain. The city had been designated a colony for unruly veterans of the … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #24 |
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Boudica's Revolt (61 AD)Scenario#: 408 Date: 61-AD Location: Wroxeter, EnglandWhile many of the tribes of Britain resisted Rome until they were conquered and crushed, a few tribes, like the Iceni, formed pacts with the Romans to remain semi-independent. The Iceni client-king Prasutagus died while the Roman governor, Gaius… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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First Bedriacum (69 AD)Scenario#: 409 Date: 69-AD Location: Calvatone, ItalyThe “year of four emperors” (68-69 AD) began when Nero, the last member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, committed suicide to avoid execution. Servius Sulpicius Galba, governor of Hispania, was proclaimed emperor, but did last long, for Marcus Salvius… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Mons Graupius (84 AD)Scenario#: 410 Date: 84-AD Location: Mons Graupius, ScotlandAfter years of campaigns in northern Britain, Gnaeus Julius Agricola subdued all the tribes except the fierce Caledonians. Agricola maneuvered to bring the Caledonians to open battle. Determined to restore the security of his Highland home, the… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Teutoburger Wald P1 (9 AD)Scenario#: 220 Date: 9-AD Location: Osnabrück, GermanyJulius Caesar had established Rome’s northeast boundary as the Rhine River a half century earlier. But the Emperor Caesar Augustus decided to extend imperial control all the way to the Elbe. A task that seemed easy on a map in … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Teutoburger Wald P2 (9 AD)Scenario#: 221 Date: 9-AD Location: Osnabrück, GermanyThroughout the first day of battle, German attacks had harassed the disjointed Roman column as they struggled along. That night Varus’ men constructed a fortified camp knowing that Arminius would not dare assault a well-manned prepared position. The… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |