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Re: Hannibal Barca, Cannae (Cyantic)

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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 02:25 PM
On the start of the RP, you have a single unit of hastati. A single principes unit is behind your line. A usual amount of velites has accompanied you. You are currently moving across a dirt road. One side is grassland and the other side, your right is covered in dense forest. Your men are eager and ready for a fight, although you will have to keep them from retreating through thorough discipline.

Name: Vitus
Age: 34
Appearance: A thin man, with the look of a runner over a soldier. He's fairly strong after all of these years in the army. Black hair, blue eyes, the odd one out in Italy. Heavily scarred.
Wealth: Not too wealthy, not too poor.
Armor: The usual stuff, he's spent what money he has to make certain that armor will protect him.
Popularity: Among the men, Vitus is not a very popular leader. He's kind if your wounded, and very, very harsh.
Tactical Skill: Excellent.
Biography: Vitus came from a long line of people swinging swords against people. As such, he had a few things that would help him in his military career. Eventually promoted... to this hastati's leader. Another group of people to train.
Other: Hannibal? I couldn't find the word.

[ROMAN MILITARY INFORMATION: nil. i have no idea what i'm talking about for most of this.]

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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 02:30 PM
(OK.)
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 02:32 PM
Alright, first some information. How many men do I have to work with? How trained are they? Would we have to spend time training them or can they actually take on a force?

Send out scouts to spy on the fort. Take count of the supplies, and how long we could go without restocking. That sort of things, getting me general information.
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 02:36 PM
You, control one hundred and fifty (thirty velites, one hundred and twenty hastati) legionnaires in this force. The Veles are your skirmishers, they are poorly trained but extremely brave. They're also decent at throwing their pilums into the enemy lines. And no, you've spent all the time you could already training them, now you're enroute to the first estate. Your junior centurion is Marcus Flaccus Arminius, he is more popular than you by tenfold. He is slightly less experienced however, he has taken to raising the men's morale.
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 02:40 PM
So, we're heading straight to fight the fort?
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 02:41 PM
No, that is suicide, my centurion!

You are headed to a roman estate in a bid to rescue the owners, or more importantly, retrieve the grain supplies.
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 02:42 PM
Can I get a slightly better explanation of what's happening and what exactly I'm doing?
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 02:46 PM
(Your maniple of hastati and one unit of a principes are moving off from the main army, towards the east. You're essentially going to rescue a bunch of farmers from possible enemies.)
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 02:53 PM
Well, let's do it. Keep moving, and when we get close, slow down and send people out to investigate.
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 02:57 PM
When your orders are finally relayed to Marcus, he sends out his velites and joins you with his bodyguard. Your six triarii, elite units with mail shirts, crested helmets and short thrusting spears serve as your elite bodyguard.

"The velites should get the job done, sir. Do you wish for a full survey of the estate, or just a quick sweep?" He takes off his helmet, and strokes the horse-hair plume.
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 03:04 PM
"A quick sweep should work fine for my purposes, Marcus."
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 03:09 PM
"Of course, sir." He gives a brisk salute and slowly marches off with his three triarii. Eventually, after relaying orders to the unofficial velite leader, the velites send out ten of their best men to perform a quick survey of the grounds. Marcus marches back to you, still cradling his helmet.
"If we're lucky, the owners are alive and we can get their supplies without any conflict with hostiles."

However, Marcus's optimism turns out to be false. After perhaps a few minutes of waiting, the dozen velites return and report that they have seen Libyan Spearmen. They report that the libyans are idle, relaxed and busy looting. They also mention that the soldiers they saw bolstered no armor except a conical helmet.
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 03:33 PM
Alright, Encircle the house using my forces if possible, so none of them can escape. Double up forces where they were reported to be found, and take them from the areas which would be difficult to escape from.
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 03:37 PM
Your maniple moves out to comply, they ready for an ambush almost silently. The grumbling and mumbling begins almost instantly, they remain still, waiting for the order. Marcus's velites are spread out unevenly, the majority are placed over the largest cluster of the relaxed Libyans.
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 03:39 PM
Begin to push up on the house, and for god's sake, get them to shut up.
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 03:44 PM
The march is slow at the start, as they reach the end of the field their pace quickens, their voices die down as they get more nervous. Then they charge, shields infront and swords ready. You hear a rally cry, as a volley of pila land on the unsuspecting Libyans. Almost a quarter of their number fall from the volley. One yells for assistance, before he is impaled by a gladius in the stomach.

"ROMA! ROMA!" The hastati's rally cry increases in pitch before it dies down in the din of the fight. A velite volley hits a dozen others. The Libyans have finally mobilized.
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18 Sep 2014 04:16 PM
A small but handsome man is walking around with his pet deer when he sees a man, they man turns out to be his best friend, the man has a pet deer who happens to be the other deers best friend, they go home to the small cabin and live there forever.
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 04:17 PM
what a nice story
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 05:13 PM
Try and use the house to block them escaping, and encircle them. Have the ones in the back throw their spears, while the ones in front have their shields and their swords are ready.

When a one falls, have the next one step up to take their place. If they are wounded, have them fade back into the camp where they can be healed, and have the back line member step up to take their place.

If they tire out, have the next one step up to take their place.
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18 Sep 2014 05:15 PM
The Libyans begin to break, with more than three quarters of their forces dead. But they are rallied by the sound of a war-horn -- Gauls.

As soon as the horn blows, a dozen Iberians, clad in mail and armed with shields and spears exit the estate and join the fray.

As to be expected, the hastati begin to fracture and lose men.
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 05:19 PM
Draw the hastati back into it's normal formation, move the veterans up, and pull the wounded out. I need a rough count of how many men we have and how many men they have.
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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18 Sep 2014 05:23 PM
You have around one hundred and four of your initial count, and your men are frightened by the skill of the Iberians. The Principes are at full strength of one hundred and twenty, and the velites took only three casualties. The Principes move up, in good order and formation and engage the eager Iberians.

There are a fairly odd amount of enemies present. Out of the original one hundred Libyans, around forty are moving to assist their Iberian allies. The Iberians number around fifty five and a few dozen gaulish warriors, around fourteen.
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aznleroy is not online. aznleroy
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18 Sep 2014 05:28 PM
Send my best men towards theirs :3
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Cyantic is not online. Cyantic
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18 Sep 2014 05:29 PM
Send Marcus to get some more men. My men definitely aren't brave enough for this task.

My main goal is to hold off until we can get some much more needed support. Have the velites fall back to me at the moment.
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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19 Sep 2014 01:08 AM
Marcus informs you that further troops cannot be procured, this battle will have to be won through skill.
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