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| 05 Jun 2015 01:35 PM |
(Damn reposts from the dead.)
--Hannibal Barca--
The echo hit the thatched roofs repeatedly. Every soldier heard learned to dread that familiar bark. They would have still dreaded it, if they still stood. The bark of the dogs whom had came to sack all of Italia and eradicate what all held dear. The fog slowly cleared to reveal the village of Canae. You would have expected to see it bustling, alive with thousands of villagers selling fresh meat to other villagers as the fresh smell of manure filled every one of their nostrils. You would have expected a river unstained of the bodies of the entire village. Neither was true. The village sat as still and idle you can be when the thatched roofs twinkle with freshly lit sparks, on parts of the dirt road the mangled corpses of the villagers lay as still as their village. The stalls stood vigilantly, either overturned or still standing proudly; stripped of all their wares. Even the pots had been taken. The river was not untainted by the bodies of the villagers who had attempted to escape, instead it happily totted them as a simply of pride and statue. It's mere presence gloated at the slaughter that had been brought here. As if to join the gloating river, the army that had laid ruin to this village sat in a fort on their side of the plain. All but the trees and the wretched fort lay idle. A few dozen numidians, the missile cavalry of Hannibal Barca were the culprits, and yet, they had only taken a share of the loot. Instead, the Libyans and the Iberians had glutted themselves on the spoils of the village and countless others. This entire side of Italia had been purged, no village or unfortified town moved.
For days and night, the fort remained and the village sat empty. On the second day, ten kilometers away the view was filled with red banners, patterned shields and the shine of glistening metal. The army marched out of the tree line, formed and fortified a camp, proceeding to sit there. The new encampment was many miles longer than the previous fort, dwarfing the conquering army by an amusing amount. The side of the newer camp, filled to the brim with roman legionnaires frequently suffered from the opposition's numidians. The general of the smaller army requested a battle, which was brusquely denied. Both sides sat idly for another day, the numidians continued their assault endlessly. Neither side released their position. On this day, two maniples of hastati and one maniple of principes moved from the fort to reinforce the further flung estates to the east, across the river. Hopefully they had not been sacked yet. The faces of the hastati are young and naive, eager to make their place in the republic. The principes are not that much better, with their mail shirts being the only real distinguishing feature amongst them both.
Fight at Cannae, control your maniple in the upcoming battle of cannae.
-STARTING GROUND-
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 thoroguh discipline.
-Rules-
1, As a maniple centurion, you control a total of one hundred and twenty men.
2, Each ISRP will follow your maniple.. and.. guess what, someone else. Each Maniple has two centurions. The first two to join will be paired up in the first ISRP, and so on. You will have to consult with the other player in roleplay in order to survive the estates fighting and the battle of cannae.
3, You're a centurion, sure, you're not that great at tactics but you can sense when it's going wrong and get your men back into fighting positions.
4, Centurions aren't young pretty boys. Sorry.
5, You post your actions and I decide what happens. Shoving your one hundred and twenty men into a much larger libyan force will, obviously get you and your men killed.
6, This is Rome! Women have no place in armies!
7, My word is law.
8, Listening to your fellow centurion WILL benefit you.
9, Your maniple is not instantaneously turning around.
10, There's a HIGH chance that if you either ignore your fellow centurion, then your side of the maniple will suffer more heavily. Why? Because that feature is not meant to instill teamwork, not isolation.
11, Hey look, you've got a bunch of quickly trained commoners as your maniple. Better keep them disciplined, lest they all run away.
12, Hannibal.
--Character Sheet--
Name: (No surnames. I don't care if it's not roman. Because that'd just result in everything becoming 'us'.) Age: Appearance: (Physical.) Wealth: (Yep.. This is important.) Armor: (This is directly linked to wealth, if you're poor you'll have worse armor.) Popularity: (With your men. As a warning, if you are well received with your men, you will have to act it.) Tactical Skill: (This determines how effective your second in command is at relaying orders to your men.) Biography: Other: (there's a word for this)
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| 05 Jun 2015 01:41 PM |
| have fun with that stuff blox |
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JoshWesty
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| 05 Jun 2015 02:43 PM |
I wanted to be a filthy low ranking legonaire scrub.
Awwwwwww. |
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| 05 Jun 2015 02:45 PM |
Feel free to be a low ranking, filthy legionaire scrub then.
Centurion is just recommended. |
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| 05 Jun 2015 04:27 PM |
| no surnames? I have a legit Roman name i made using the tria nomina, and looking up actual roman names. |
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| 05 Jun 2015 04:32 PM |
| (Well, what I really meant was avoid going 'Lexus Maximus Flavius Decimus Lelius'. You know. Us spam. Proper surnames are obviously fine. |
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| 05 Jun 2015 04:37 PM |
| Typical roman names have 3 parts, the first name is a personal name sleected after you're born by your parents (7 days after for girls, 9 days after for boys) and is just something to identify you by. The second is the Gens or family name, and the third is the cognomina. It's like another personal name, usually given for some detail about yourself. If you have a mole on your cheek or were born in may, there's names for those things. Names can be longer though, plenty of military leaders have aditional names relating to battels they won or distinguished themselves at. Another name can also be adopted if you marry into another family. So you can get some paticularly long names. But mine is only three. |
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| 05 Jun 2015 04:38 PM |
| (The point was the repetition of the 'us'. Not of the longevity of the name. But feel free to have a surname, I can't quite remember why I said no surnames, as this thread was originally made a year ago. Probably should have altered some bits.) |
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| 05 Jun 2015 04:48 PM |
-us is on so many names because it denotes the masculine form of the name
for instance, Aelia is female, Aelius is male.
This trend shows up on about 90% of Roman anmes, so that's why it happens. |
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| 05 Jun 2015 04:54 PM |
(I had wanted to join this when it originally came out. Never had opportunity here we go!)
Name: (No surnames. I don't care if it's not roman. Because that'd just result in everything becoming 'us'.) Antonius Praefectus Age: 32 Appearance: (Physical.) Appears like a man whom has gone through a lot in a tough way he has short buzzcut type brown hair and cold blue eyes that can intimidate most men he has a clean shaved face with a scar on his lip he is 5'8" and weighs 170 lbs and is muscular Wealth: (Yep.. This is important.) Is upper middle class Armor: (This is directly linked to wealth, if you're poor you'll have worse armor.) Has a better than average armor set of a lorica segmenta Popularity: (With your men. As a warning, if you are well received with your men, you will have to act it.) He is pretty popular with them though the only concern they really have is how disciplined he tries to keep them though they reluctantly stay disciplined Tactical Skill: (This determines how effective your second in command is at relaying orders to your men.) Very much intelligent. Biography: Born to a fairly rich merchant family he grew up with lots of things handed down to him. As a result of his merchant family heritage he is skillful at convincing people things or getting people to believe him as for what is needed in a merchant. He did not feel being a merchant was what he wanted to do with his life and so at 23 he joined the Roman Legion and found himself at home here. He eventually became very skilled in combat and working with the other men. He eventually rose to the Rank of Centurion and has lead the men diligently and competently since. Other: (there's a word for this) Hannibal |
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| 06 Jun 2015 04:25 AM |
| (Emh. Want your thread now or next year?) |
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nemanjak
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| 06 Jun 2015 07:11 AM |
Name: (No surnames. I don't care if it's not roman. Because that'd just result in everything becoming 'us'.) Manitus Karatus Age: 40 Appearance: A tall bulky figure of a man. He has short black hair and brown-blackish eyes. His face is covered in war wounds, but if it wasn't what kind of a centurion would he be? But those wounds are not limited to only his face as his partially unprotected arms have many scars covering them, old and new alike. Everything else is covered by his armor. Wealth: As everyone is rich I'll be the lower middle class guy. Armor: A very used set of Lorica Squamata, somewhat new Lorica Manica, decent quality Greaves and an old Imperial helmet Popularity: Most of the men are from the village he comes from so he is fairly well respected and liked by them, although some of his men weren't exactly friends with him in the village. Tactical Skill: Average Biography: pls no i hate dese. Let's just say he comes from a village which was mass recruited for the army. He was one of the best men in the village so he got the highest of ranks first and got to use his childhood acquaintances in battle. Other: Poor me being the worst of centurions but I don't wanna have it easy mode like those 2 plebs. Anyway, the word is basically where every single word is in these things. |
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| 06 Jun 2015 07:32 AM |
(THREE PEOPLE?)
(panic as we need a fourth person)
(Also nemanjak, 'imperial helmet'
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that helmet hasn't been invented yet mate
um
we're the republic
uhhh) |
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| 06 Jun 2015 07:42 AM |
| (wait for Nemanjak or naw? It doesn't really matter as you start in Barulum this time before the march.) |
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| 06 Jun 2015 07:45 AM |
| *pressure increases, noise of melting* |
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