Edit-Having played the last game, the one year per turn tends to lead to large swaths of the world where ‘nothing happens’ for extended periods of time
(I dunno how to solve that, but I guess I'll just auto for regions that have low activity. I guess that can just simulate how not everything is written in history.)
EventsRoman-Dacian WarRoman Empire: 1d20(14) + Superpower (+5) = 19
Kingdom of Dacia: 1d20(5) + Fortified Defenses (+3) = 8For the years in precedence, the Kingdom of Dacia and the Roman Empire had fluctuating relations with one another. Some years were cordial-friendly, with extensive trading between the two polities; while some years were rocky and were met with various diplomatic incidents. The most troubling flareup was a war that was fought between the two nations, years ago. But another seemed to rise in the distance.
Independent Daci outlaws had been raids various Roman frontier settlements along the Roman-Dacian border. The raids were especially costly to the Romans, as those settlements were all developed for the sole purpose of utilizing the very fertile soil in the particular region Dacia is in. Outcries and petitions from both Roman merchants who specialized in trading with frontier settlements, and displaced Roman frontiersmen wanted a response from Rome against Dacia.
Emperor Trajan attempted multiple overtures to King Decebalus, but King Decebalus had brushed them off, citing he had no control over what free non-peasant Daci did outside the walls of his capital. Inbetween the official talks, tensions had kept rising between Dacia and Rome.
One day a diplomatic convoy returning to Rome from a recent round of talks in Dacia, was viciously attacked. The guards of the convoy received massive losses in the defense but managed to gain a victory against the undisciplined raiders.
Within days, many Legions were being marshalled under the orders of Empire Trajan. Rome was threatened too much by Dacia. A military response, Trajan surmised, was the only solution after all diplomatic options were exhausted. The Roman Senate easily accepted his motion for a War against Dacia.
Word of the forces being gathered reached the ears of King Decebalus from his information network in Rome. It would take the Legions a few months to start a campaign in-full. With that in acknowledgment King Decebalus began a massive fortification campaign of the capital, along with any nearby settlements and forts. The outlying areas could not possibly be attended to due to being too far to the Dacian capital.
The Roman Empire, deploying 3 Legions (15k Legionnaires), began their campaign; immediately capturing and securing many Dacian villages, towns, and forts. At times they were slowed by heavy skirmishing by Daci militiamen and Daci soldiers, but they kept progressing through or deployed their own counter-skirmish missions.
The first and final battle of the Roman-Daci war began at Tapae, the fort-town that guarded the Dacian capital. A brutal siege ensued that lasted for four days, until the main fort of Tapae transferred into Roman hands. Survivors of the Tapae siege kept skirmishing against the Legions, trying to slow their advance to the Dacian capital, but ultimately failed. Little resistance was met when the Legions marched into Sarmizegetusa.
Decebalus was subsequently deposed by the Roman Empire and was replaced by a Daci noble named Vemnas as King. Emperor Trajan decided against making Dacia a full roman province, since holding it while being on alert against Parthia, would be unfeasible. Dacia instead became a legal client state to Rome.
Alien Visitation|"The Enemy"A small-sized carrier-class spaceship stealthily enters the atmosphere of Earth. The alien spaceship is landed in a secret location in the mountains, in North America.
These Aliens seem to be not only capable of shapeshifting but are capable of psionic abilities. For what their main purposes on Earth are, is completely unknown. But they seem not to be friends of humanity, as their scouts mercilessly clear out human villages settled at the base of their mountain forward operating base. Some survivors of these attacks come to other North America native villages and tell of these aliens. They are sparsely believed and thought of as crazy. Nobody knows the names of these Aliens.
They are simply The Enemy.
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