Year Zero #1

>>1513621
>propose your service as a craftman (what skill do you have)
This looks interesting

>>1513621
propose your service as a craftman (what skill do you have)

Or a scientist or accountant. Or soothesayer as many romans paid them to cut a chicken and say youre gonna find love.

>>1513652
As a craftsman.. hmm we would rather be suited to maths and science.

Also we'd be pretty good looking since modern human

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The merchant seems puzzled, asking himself if he should treat you as a rich peregrinus or a runaway slave who stole his master clothes. Anyway with such expensive (red was soooo expensive) and reffined attire (smooth cotton 1800 years before the invention of the shelling machine), there's no way you could be a slave. More like a famous craftman from overseas who try to make his debut in Rome.

>You didn't sell your clothes
>You didn't collect 60 sesters
>You kept a +40 charisma bonus

You walk away from the Forum with him to his nearby shop on street level of an insulae. He asks if you have anywhere to stay and propose an appartment on the second floor.

Tomorow you begin in his blacksmith workshop, as a cashier since no craftman need to know mathematics like an accountant. However as a scientist, you hope to give few tips to other workers.

>go in the inner court to blend in with people from the civitas
>rest and collect your thoughts on what you are going to invent
>rest and try to remember historical events you can profit from (roll a dice+1d2)

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1513787
>>rest and try to remember historical events you can profit from (roll a dice+1d2)

>>1513787
Is higher better OP or is it a Yes/No type of roll?

Rolled 1 (1d2)

Fuck forgot to roll

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1513787
>>rest and try to remember historical events you can profit from (roll a dice+1d2)

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You focus your thoughts on your History lessons, you remember that slaves have radically changed the economy of Rome, and that poor plebeian farmers can't compete against giant slaves farms owned by the praticians. Cheap grains from the recently captured provinces have made them bankrupt. Since you are incredibly lucky you also remember two major events :

>Tiberius, quells revolts in Germania, but following the union of the tribes in 4 years a pact of non-aggression and friendship will be signed.
>In 6 years, a food shortage will make Augustus doubles the grain rations distributed to the people and a catastrophic fire will occurs.

You go to sleep, haunted by all the sci-fi novels you read on time travel, the fate of the Roman Empire on your shoulders, can you really alter the course of History ?
>Sanity -10, Charisma -10
You wake up with the sun and head straight for the shop, other tenants of the insulae wonder who you are and don't offer you a breakfast
>Hunger +10, Charisma -10
Taking your job of cashier very seriously, you soon realizes how boring it really is. It's mainly farmer and other craftman asking if their tools are ready are not. The slaves are not working the hammer fast enough. (if only there were some kind of automated press to replace the manpowered hammer). A small group of young Romans are heading toward the shop, a centurion leading them. They noticed your bright red t-shirt (just like the Legion) and ask you to take an order. These people seems to be praticians who want to equip themselves to do their duty in the Legion. Manipulating your abbacus and the Julius calendar with ease you manage to register a big order for the merchant. It's a good deal, not the greatest ever made, but you proved your worth. You can take your afternoon with 4 sesters + 10 sesters of bonus. What now ?

>Heading to the Forum ? (sell item)
>Heading to the Public Baths ? (talk to people)
>Asking an audience to a senator (roll dice+1d2)

>>1513827
Higher better on a 2, Yes/No, live/sudden death... it depends, just know that rolling a dice is always a very bold move ITT which come with great reward or a terrific outcome.

>>1514044
>>Heading to the Public Baths ? (talk to people)
Lets see what's been going on lately

>>1514044
Are writeins allowed?

>>1514044
>>Heading to the Public Baths ? (talk to people)

>>1513621
Aigh't let me read you for a bit and I'll participate.

>>1514044
Shouldn't we be going straight for the emperor ?
With our knowledge we could probably become his best advisor in a short time

>>1514105
Good point. But perhaps gaining a bit of political support starting from the roots would be desirable.

Also fuck its the roman empire. Super dope, we should be traveling dude! But no an advisor or executive position would be best.

>>Heading to the Public Baths ? (talk to people)

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>>1514072
The Public Baths are where people from various classes meet each other, they eat, dance, feast, sing and of course bath... It's nothing like you ever imagined, everything seems to real and down to earth, almost as if you were at a pool party. However... something history books never mentioned was how FILFTHY romans were. They just use hot water to clean the dirt on their body and it's not really effective. You notice the group of young legionaries who bought all their set at the shop, eating grappes from young ladies on tricliniums. There is also someone speaking ancient greek with an the unmistakable tanned skin of a sailor.

>Go talk to the soldiers
>Go talk to the sailor
>Screw it, I'm going to invent soap (roll dice+1d2)

>>1514105
there was an option "audience with a senator"

>>1514044
yeah gonna pitch in for the baths too

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1514177
Invent SOAP then initiate Project Mayhem.

>>1514177
>>Go talk to the soldiers

We should actually look into soap though. I mean why wasn't it popular at this time anyway?

>>1514177
Voting for the legionaries, ice's already broken and netsworking is important.

>>1514177
Getting close to the imperial army would be a pretty good move desu

>>1514197
they used oil and strigilums
also primitive soap is from tallow not oil, it's not gonna bas as pleasant

>>1514177
>Go talk to the soldiers

>>1514197
I dunno. Mabye the process of it was dangerous or there was a kind of culteral taboo. I dont know myself. Wierd romans.

>>1514223
you cook tallow with wet ashes
it's just a bit hard to think of mixing the two, but ashes were used to wash teeth because of the abrasiveness before

Rolled 1 (1d2)

Soap invent

Legionaries are pleb here

>>1514285
>These ones
The only plebs here are us Mill.

>>1514296
Re plague

Legionaries in the capital are just dirty cunts

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ok, I don't know if /qst/ prefer the first post rule or a democratic vote, so I'm just gonna write what the soap option look like and we will continue with democratic vote from now on

>>1514195
>>1514285
With an incredible luck you find Suaeda maritima ashes to extract alcali cristal, lavanda and olive oil to make a perfumed soap. The product is of incredible quality and after a demonstration you already have tons of commands. Maybe you should start your own business. You now have to find a land of your own to grow more Suaeda maritima, lavanda and olive trees. Maybe a windmill press to extract oil.

>>1514197
>>1514198
>>1514205
>>1514223
So learn that they are heading to Germania, helping Tiberius to fight off the barbarians. Nothing can go wrong, it's not like guerilla warfare in forest is in disadvantage of large cohorts... oh wait ! Because you remembered last night that the Germania campaign was a disaster you have to do something or your sanity will drop again.

>use your charisma to demonstrate how knowledgeable you are on barbarians and roman military tactics
>invent double plywood shields which offer the double of damage resistance
>invent the bossmer process to produce steel (roll a dice+1d2)

>>1514306
>>use your charisma to demonstrate how knowledgeable you are on barbarians and roman military tactics
We centurion now

>>1514306
>use your charisma to demonstrate how knowledgeable you are on barbarians and roman military tactics

Also tell them the German Barbarians are cowards who hide in forests, waiting for the right moment to strike. We know this because our grandfather was a Gaelic Auxiliary I guess...

Which brings me to something else OP, do we speak Latin?

>>1514306
>>use your charisma to demonstrate how knowledgeable you are on barbarians and roman military tactics
Going the imperial guard route

>>1514320
Read the OP, right after our inventory

>>1514335
Ah, right, thanks.

Do charisma with soldiers and after we invent soap

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>>1514346
Don't ignore me Mill. Search your feelings you know me to be true.

>>1514306
>helping tiberius fight (((barbarians)))
traitre

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Three brothers from a rich pratician family and the only son of a senator, they are what you would call the upper class of Roman society but somehow find conversation to be pleasant in your company. The elder want to present you to his father a rich land owner this very night ! You have been cordially invited to their dinner which is also the good bye party for the three brothers before joigning the Legion.

>You didn't save them
Depression +10, Charisma -10

After bathing you realise your clothes stinks but you don't have anything else for the party.

>Go to the Forum (trade one item for a tunic, select item pls)
>Use the soap to clean your clothes (soap is lost)
>Try to learn mo reabout the fourth legionnary (roll dice+1d2)

>>1514425
Also another thing OP, how does the whole Charisma thing work? Is it an add on to the roll or...?

also
>See if we can't make a forge.

>>1514425
Let's not replace the rich looking tshirt with a shittier one; wash it since we can always make more soap later

>>1514444
>how does the whole Charisma thing work
You're currently at 10 Charisma over the average, it's just buff and debuff effects depending on your actions and items. When you are above average the results of social interactions are better than if you weren't, etc... If you loose the t-shirt you loose the +40 effect, hence taking the full -30 effect.

The dice roll is absolute, total, randomness. It's wether a super awesome outcome or a catastrophic one.

tl;dr just trust your instinct

Also, why you need a forge, you already work in a blacksmith workshop. You mean a special forge ? There was an option here >>1514306

>>1514456
sure

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You enter the villa of the three brothers family, a luxury banquet awaits the guests : crabs, fruits, meat (a ton of meat which commoners couldn't afford) and the plat de résistance a "Shield of Minerva", composed of pike liver, brains of pheasant and peacock, flamingo tongue, and lamprey milt, there is even boiled snails. Some slaves bring plates to people couching in their tricliniums mixing their favorites dishes, other entertain the guests with dances, music... Not really different than a tv dinner.

Your bright red t-shirt makes you stand out, but with the jean you are often mistaken for a Gaul slave, or a worker. Since the three brother start to wonder why you didn't change for the party. You can't approach them.
>You are not presented to the head of the family
But your look makes you the perfect interlocutor for military affairs, unfortubatly the nobody seems to care about civil affairs (if only you met some relative of a senator...), what now ?

>go talk to a Praefectii about a specific topic related to his unit and radically change the art of war
-Præfectus castrorum, engineering and artillery (black powder)
-Præfectus fabrum, armor and weapons (steel)
-Præfectus castris, managing the camp (soap)
-Præfectus equitum, cavalry (stirrup)
>go to the cuisine, invent a new recipe and present it to everyone to restore your charisma
-crepes
-mayonnaise
-peanut butter
(then roll a dice+1d2)
>go talk to the legatus of the Praetor Tiberius about Germanic tribes with your just above average charisma (60/100)

>>1516106
>-Præfectus castrorum, engineering and artillery (black powder)

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>1516106
>go to the cuisine, invent a new recipe and present it to everyone to restore your charisma
Let's go with Pizzas

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1516157
oops wrong dice i think

OP here, quite embarassed with the result. I said I was going to use a vote to continue, but we are 50/50 with only two votes.

>>1516157
Supporting

>>1516157
sup

Now in the cuisine, the slaves fall back, mesmerized by your incredible cooking technique. It's something to make a delicious dish, but the way you turn dough like a true pizzaiolo make the professional juggler uncomfortable. Everything is going smoothly, after all you are in the land of pizza, they must have everything to do one, right ?... RIGHT ?

Suddenly you remember that tomatoe was not introduced in Europe before the discovery of America. And not even considered fit for consumption hundreds of years later...

Try again
>invent a new recipe and present it to everyone to restore your charisma
-crepes
-mayonnaise
-peanut butter
(then roll a dice+1d2)

Head back to the party
>go talk to a Praefectii about a specific topic related to his unit and radically change the art of war
-Præfectus castrorum, engineering and artillery (black powder)
-Præfectus fabrum, armor and weapons (steel)
-Præfectus castris, managing the camp (soap)
-Præfectus equitum, cavalry (stirrup)
>go talk to the legatus of the Praetor Tiberius about Germanic tribes with your just above average charisma (60/100)

>>1517081
>-Præfectus castrorum, engineering and artillery (black powder)
Steampunk romans when?

>>1517088
now
Supp

>>1517081
>-mayonnaise
much easier to make

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The Praefectii seems like a very curious guys, not much of a fighter he knows how to speak Greek is quite fond of alchemy. As a matter of fact he is a supporter of the atomist theory introduced in Rome by Lucretius Carus, his great grand father. The young Carus thinks that epicurism and the austere traditional lifestyle supported by Caton are not irreconcilable. Maybe he will save Rome from its decadent ways in the future.

>You made a friend
+20 Happiness, +20 Charisma

Back to business now, you promised Carus to show him something incredible you learned from a Persian merchant. The Legions are departing of Germania in two days, you hope to make enough black powder to impress him. Just after the party you take some charcoal from the fire, there also an old abandonned horse stable where you can find salpeter. You just have to find some sulphur but the nearest volcano is in Naple, 200 km south...

Get the black powder anyway
>spend all your sesters to ride a carriage and get the sulphur (two day lost)
>go to the Forum sell all your items to buy an overpriced sulphur (you lost your red t-shirt and all your inventory)

Maybe try for another invention
-Præfectus fabrum, armor and weapons (steel)
-Præfectus castris, managing the camp (soap)
-Præfectus equitum, cavalry (stirrup)
(then roll a dice+1d2)

Stats
Charisma 80/100
Intelligence 50/100
Strengh 50/100

Inventory
-14 sesters
-red cotton t-shirt
-pair of jeans
-sport shoes
-smartphone
-key

>>1517183
>spend all your sesters to ride a carriage and get the sulphur (two day lost)
I don't want to lose the smart phone just yet.

>>1517183
>>spend all your sesters to ride a carriage and get the sulphur (two day lost)
We're going to hold onto that phone like it's our baby

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Your expedition to the volcano was rather tiring, you nearly set fire to your poor rubber shoes, not talking about smell of your shirt from all the sweat, but FINALLY !... You got your sulphur to create 10 kg of black powder. You lack of time, Carus is about to leave Rome. Gathering all your creation in a sealed jar you meet him for an arranged demonstration. Setting the jar on the ground without any crash test dummy to demonstrate its explosive power, you ask Carus to take shelter and observe.

>You stinks
Disgust +20, Charisma -20
>Huge sucess
Mood +20, Intelligence +20

The explosion nearly made both of you deaf, every dogs in Rome are barking, a small white cloud raise from the ashes where the jar once stood. You explain, very excited, that it is a variant of Greek fire, which Carus knows very well. In fact he once had a Greek auxiliary preparing special load for his catapults. Unfortunatly, time is missing, there is no point in joigning the Legion with him since the ingredient were all used... However Carus arranges a meeting with a Tribunus Cohortis charged of recruiting auxiliary specialised in unconventional warfare. You made your farewell to your friend.

>Carus, the three brothers and the mysterious son of a senator are now heading to Germania. In six year they will die in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest if you don't do anything until then.
Sanity -20, Charisma -20

What now ?

>Get back to work and try to earn some sesters even in your sorry state
>Go to the Forum (trade two (2) items for a tunic and sandals, select the two (2) item pls)
>"ARMINIUS IS A GERMAN TRAITOR, HE WILL BETRAY YOU AT TEUTOBURG" (roll dice+1d2)

Stats
Charisma 40/100
Intelligence 70/100
Strengh 50/100

Inventory
-stinky red cotton t-shirt
-pair of jeans
-damaged sport shoes
-smartphone
-key

>>1517283
We have six years. That is plenty of time. We do need money though, even just a small amount. Do we know any cool tricks that we can put on for enough money to buy a basic pair of sandals?

>>1517283
>>Get back to work and try to earn some sesters even in your sorry state

we should get that soap stuff going again. enough to sell and use on our own clothes

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You get back to work in the blacksmithworkshop and help the merchant run his business with your incredible skill at manipulating the abacus. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, they have no secrets for someone who just invented black powder ! However, you still stink like rotten eggs, so you have to work the whole day to get your 10 sesterces.

Sun is setting, people start partying, a delicate perfume of barbecue rise from the rich villa. You wish you were invited to one of them again but instead of going to the public baths you decided to make a soap again and use it with the running water in your insulae. Getting rid of this stench on your body was easy but doing the laundry was exhausting. You wish you had a wife or a slave...

>You didn't repair your shoes
Exhausted +10, Strengh -10
>You're clean
Disgust -10, Charisma +10

After experimenting the famous Roman plumbing with running water you HAVE TO use the public toilets, you know... just out of curiosity...

Historians seem to have vasyly overrated them...

They are not cleaned very often, you have to do the flushing yourself, people wipe themselves with the same sponge. Looking inside the lattrine you notice worms and their should probably be other parasite eyes cannot see. Disgusted you go back to the insulae and try to use the local toilet, it's much cleaner... However you remember about John Snow (the first epidemiologist, not some fictional character) and get terrified at the idea that waste are not flushed out in the sewage but in a septic pit... near the water well. You couldn't save the XVII, XVIII, and XIX legions from Teutobourg, but you can still prevent the epidemic.

What now ?

How do you earn cash ?
>Go to the Forum (trade items, select the items pls)
why is everyone so attached to the jean and the key ? I don't get it :/
>An other day of work for 10 sesterces
>Try to become a teacher in maths and latin (roll a dice+1d2)
AND
What to do with it ? (following options will not appear again :)
>Buy ingredients for black powder and go see the Tribunii for a demonstration
>Buy ingredients for soap but use the caustic soda to demonstrate how to clean the sewage
>Try to buy a slave
(roll a dice+1d6)
-1 pretty hellenic woman
-2 smart britons craftman
-3 skilled gaul druid
-4 strong germanic barbarian
-5 not enough cash
-6 you are mistaken for a runaway slave and captured

Stats
Charisma 50/100
Intelligence 70/100
Strengh 40/100

Inventory
-semlly red cotton t-shirt (need a proper washing)
-pair of jeans
-damaged sport shoes
-smartphone
-key

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1519138
>Try to become a teacher in maths and latin (roll a dice+1d2)
Will hopefully earn us more respect and money
Also curious as to what failure will bring on this dice roll
>Buy ingredients for soap but use the caustic soda to demonstrate how to clean the sewage
Probably important to do this now.

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>>1519193
With a letter of recommandation from the merchant you head for pratrician villa to become the tutor of the youngest son. You are not really lucky on that one, the poor boy is kind of retarded, but you get your daily wage of 10 sesterces at least. You probably could had more luck if you didn't spill nonsense about arabic numbers.

>Arabic number will never be introduced in Ancient Rome
Disappointment +30, intelligence -30

>You miss the rendezvous to present black powder to the legion
Roman Army will never use it, but maybe you can train your own grenadier later...

You spend the whole morning trying to teach the boy how to count potatoes... euh I mean counting sheep (since the potatoe come America) and use your money to buy olive oil. Now you just have to gather some suaeda maritima and lavanda. Bruning the first one you get enough caustic soda to act as a teleshopping guy.

"Approach citizens, foreigners and slaves ! And behold the miraculous powder I bring from our recently captured provinces ! From Syria to Gaul they use this one weird trick to get rid of filth... Get beautiful hairs like a the most exotic barbarian girl, clean your armors with one fast whipe and wait... THERE'S MORE !!!"

You spread the powder on the floor of the latrinium and in the sewage then flush some water... Instantly, the dirt disapears. No more parasites, no more germs. You even made some soap to sell in a stand near by.

>You feel like Billy Mays
Happiness +30, Charisma +30

A patrol of praetorian is trying to disperse the crowd. In their dark and purple armor, you know something terrible will happen to you. You are rushed to the villa of a rich merchant. Waiting in a room full of papyrus you gaze at the schematic of Roman plumbing. As you thought, it's terrible. Roman were afraid to connect their personal waste disposal to the sewage because of the smell.

After discussing all the afternoon, you manage to get a very small land concession to grow your plants and a daily supply of olive oil. You are now able to produce one (1) soap per day and one (1) kg of caustic soda and sell them for 10 and 20 sesterces, you also manage to spare some for your daily consumption.

You could go to the Senate to present your reform on public sanitation, but it's only possible if you max your three stats first. You have to hurry, maybe use a subterfuge to temporarly raise them, you have three days to do so.

(cont)

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>>1519314
Daily revenue
-soap 10 sesterces
-caustic soda 20 sesterces
-teaching 10 sesterces

Stats
Charisma 80/100
Intelligence 40/100
Strengh 40/100

Inventory
-120 sesters (3 days of revenue)
-1 soap (permanent, cannot be sold)
-1kg of caustic soda (permanent, cannot be sold)
-semlly red cotton t-shirt (need a proper washing)
-pair of jeans
-damaged sport shoes
-smartphone at 10%
-key

How to max your stats ?

Charisma
>pay someone to wash your red t-shirt properly for 20 sesterces
>try to sell your smartphone which is only 10% of charge, get 500 sesters and bypass all requirements
>bribe senate for 120 sesters (roll a dice+1d2) and bypass charisma requirements

Intelligence
>quit your job of soap maker and study, you can never commercialise soap again, you can still make it but will have to pay for ingredients daily
>quit your job as tutor of a retard and study, you can never be teacher ever again
>bribe senate for 120 sesters (roll a dice+1d2) and bypass intelligence requirements

Strengh
>invent a revigorating recipe (roll a dice+1d2 OR write in and submit to OP judgment :))
>trade t-shirt, jean and shoes for a classical legion uniform
>bribe senate for 120 sesters (roll a dice+1d2) and bypass strengh requirements

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1519326
>pay someone to wash your red t-shirt properly for 20 sesterces
>quit your job as tutor of a retard and study, you can never be teacher ever again
looks like we're wasting our time here
>invent a revigorating recipe
RNGsus have mercy

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1519326
S P Q R INVICTUS

>pay someone to wash your red t-shirt properly for 20 sesterces

>quit your job as tutor of a retard and study, you can never be teacher ever again

>invent a revigorating recipe
protein drink with tuna, fish sauce and olive oil as main ingredient

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You manage to raise your charisma and intelligence levels enough, but fail to be above average in strengh. Roman senators are not really impressed by a weakling like you... The military branch of the senators leave the senate and don't listen to your speech, you are now alone with the scientists and administrators.

if the military were there they would have generalised the use of soap in camps, thus greatly improving the soldiers health and advancing of few km every frontiers of the empire

Scientists are quite impressed by your caustic soda. You told them people had to take a shower before entering the baths and use soap (japanese style baths). Thermae are now cleaner and the water almost cristal clear.

Morever, now with a proper technique to clean the sewage administrator are absolutely charmed and order a vast renovation work on public and personal latriniums. Water well will never be a vector of propagation of cholera.

>You prevented the epidemy and life exptancy of Roman greatly improved
Rome population grow from 750 000 to 1 millions
+10 Charisma
+10 Intelligence
+10 Strengh

You head back to your little farm on the outskirt of Rome and sleep, dreaming about the future... Maybe you should get another job after failed at being a tutor (you still run your little soap business).

Stats
Charisma 90/100
Intelligence 50/100
Strengh 50/100

Inventory
-100 sesterces
-1 soap (permanent, cannot be sold)
-1kg of caustic soda (permanent, cannot be sold)
-red cotton t-shirt
-pair of jeans
-damaged sport shoes
-smartphone at 0%
-key

What now ?
>become a civil architect and profit of the economic boom in public works for sanitation to innovate and ease the burden of physical labour
>take revenge on your multiple failed attempt at cooking and become a chef to befriend rich people to get new opportunities with the legion
>rent a boat for 100 sesterces and try to sail for Elba Island near the italian coast to visit an iron ore extraction site (roll a dice+1d2) alea jacta est :-DDD

>>1519461
cant i get a home and some house slaves first?

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>>1519476
I already propsed the slave option, it won't appear again. I see it as a choice between personnal comfort and Rome development. The players have chosen the latter.

But getting a wife is not impossible, since you are almost considered as a citizen

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>rent a boat for 100 sesterces and try to sail for Elba Island near the italian coast to visit an iron ore extraction site (roll a dice+1d2)
Let's become a big magnate, make our own steel weapons and armour and maybe military-senpai will notice us

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>Rolled 2
As soon as you reach deep waters, a storm arises in the distance. By the gods, you are not Neptune's chosen one...

Your ship is lost and your body is washed away on the shore of Elba Island. You are alive but you lost all your inventory. Almost naked and hurt, you start looking for what you were coming for.

>Naufrage
-10 Charisma
-10 Intelligence
-10 Strengh

It's here ! HEMATITE ! You found a 35% rich non-phosphorus iron deposit. It's poor quality iron, but you can enrich it with the very cost saving Bessemer process. Not only this process just use oxygen in the air to purify ore, but even a non-qualified worker can operate it just by looking at the color of the flames. Soon you will be able to produce very high quality steel for a very low price.

Meanwhile... You are still lost and naked... You gather few cristals of hematite for your experiences, what now ?

>Say you are a lost fisherman and ask to join the next ship sailing back to Rome immediatly (loose 60 charisma)
>Work as a miner to earn enough to join a ship sailing back to Rome in 3 days (rise 30 strengh, decrease 30 intelligence)
>Screw Rome, this is your island now. Use charisma to start a rebellion of the slaves and claim the territory (roll a dice+1d2)

Daily revenue
-soap (not until you reach back Rome)
-caustic soda (not until you reach back Rome)

Stats
Charisma 80/100
Intelligence 40/100
Strengh 40/100

Inventory
-10 kg of hematite

>>1519498
Ree we didnt need a slave at the time.

>>1519696
>2
Does this mean we get to serve as the mine cumbucket now?

>>1519655
>>Work as a miner to earn enough to join a ship sailing back to Rome in 3 days (rise 30 strengh, decrease 30 intelligence)

>>1519697
nah nah friend

no idea

>>1519655
>Screw Rome, this is your island now. Use charisma to start a rebellion of the slaves and claim the territory (roll a dice+1d2)

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1519708

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1519712
shoo shoo
you have no power here

>>1519712
>>1519715
looks like jupiter vult lads

So which one it is ?
>>1519712
>>1519699
>>1519696

>>1519722

dis one>>1519715 >>1519708

What's the punishment if we fail? Crucifixion?

>>1519726
We shall not fail.
Octavius "Emperur" Ceasar has led The Republic astray into tryanny monarchy. We will bring SPQR to its glory, lead by the finest of Roman men

re where OP

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The right to defend oneself without fear of vengeance, the concept of freedom and non-ownership of people, the right to own and defend your land for everyone, all this beautiful concepts this is here that they are born ! One Elba Island.

The tyrannic governor of the Island is cast away into the sea and you manage to spare the lives of Roman soldiers. "No man has the right to rule over another man". You send them back to Rome in a small ship, with their arms and banners. You are elected chief of a small tribe of this multi-ethnic former slaves.

A pirate ship is approaching, they intended to raid the island and ransom Rome for the live of their governor. The Scicilian pirate is quite impress by your knwoledge of the mediterranea and how you treated the governor. He said that they lack people like you on the Adriatic sea. There is this town causing problem to the pirates, something like Altinum or Venice or whatever...

>Ask to be transported in Scicilia and found the Republic of the Slaves
>Try to produce steel anyway and ask him if he can sell it in exchange for food on your island
>Screw this, we pirate now (roll dice+1d2)

Stats
Charisma 80/100
Intelligence 40/100
Strengh 40/100

Inventory
-10 kg of hematite

IPersonal army
40 Gauls (warriors and hunter)
20 Bretons (craftmen and druids)
20 Greeks (scientist and strategists)
10 Spaniards (horsemen and farmers)
10 Carthaginian (sailor and merchants)

>>1519759
>>Try to produce steel anyway and ask him if he can sell it in exchange for food on your island
we tortuga now

>>1519759
>>Try to produce steel anyway and ask him if he can sell it in exchange for food on your island

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If the help of your little army you make some very high temperature furnace using firestone and start the Bessemer purification process of iron ore. The flames on top change several times of color, indicating the different steps. Then you have it. Bypassing hundreds of years of research in alchemy, ceramic and mettalurgy trhough trial and failure, you just produced high quality steel. You manage to spare some for the island.

>Great success
Happiness +20, Intelligence +20

Even an uneducated pirate can realise how important this discovery is, he was looking for a more honorable job anyway, becoming a merchant might be a way out of piracy.

Stats
Charisma 80/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 40/100

Daily revenue
-5000 stesterces from steel trade

Personal army
40 Gauls (warriors and hunter) used for steel production
20 Bretons (craftmen and druids)
20 Greeks (scientist and strategists)
10 Spaniards (horsemen and farmers)
10 Carthaginian (sailor and merchants) used for trade

Elba Inventory
-10 kg of steel (permanent, cannot be sold)
-100kg of steel ready to be shipped

What now ? (the following options will never appear again :)
>Explore the island and make grow your own crops
>Explore the island for copper ore and start experiencing on electrity
>Back to Rome with your load of high quality steel (roll dice+1d2)

>>1519806
>Explore the island and grow your own crops
We need a small food base in case Rome ever decides to blocade us

>>1519810
Oh and then go straight to copper for electricity

>>1519810
>>1519814
choose only one hehe

if the Greeks think you are going to start an agregarian society they will leave and you will never be able to have this much scientists until very very late

if you search for copper, the fields can't be used for agriculture

>>1519821
Nah we don't want an agrarian society, I just wanted a few fields just in case
Copper it is then

>>1519806
>>Explore the island for copper ore and start experiencing on electrity

a pity we lost our smartphone or is it in our villa because it was ded and no one carries around a ded phone

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You start to talk metallurgy with the Greeks, they are not really impressed with your new theory on the elements but decide to trust on electricity you since you knew how to make steel. Spaniards get bored and leave the island, they don't see what they can accomplish here.

The trade went well, you also asked your crew to trade some Hemimorphite in Massilia and gather more Suaeda maritima to produce caustic soda, just so you can extract Zinc from the first. With enough Zinc and Copper, you made a Volta battery and few electrical coils. The Greeks instantly turns into Geeks of electricity, they invent a small rotatory motor, a piezoelectric buzz, a filament which burn instantly. If you don't stop them they will disperse too much.

Which of this invention isn't worth your time ?
>rotatory motor
pro : with years of research you could get something interesting, con : "years" of research
>piezoelectric buzz
pro : morse code, maybe short beeping-morse radio, con : for now you are on an small island
>filament
pro : light bulb just at our reach, con : only civilian use


>>1519829
Everything is lost

>>1519858
What I would suggest is building a water Mill. Showing roman officials. Make a contract to supply them with electrical mills and then produce light bulbs. Draw up a roman legal document for the idea of lights and electricity become rich marry into high influence family use influence to get arminius placed in a hellhole like eqypt and then Bring gunpowder to an weaponry state to sell to rome to bring down the germans. Start a convo to bring about the end of white slavery and only enslave nibbas. because removing slavery at this point is impossible and nibbas dont have a kingdom to war with rome but white tribes and such can rise up.

(Us vs them)

>>1519858
>>piezoelectric buzz
aint worth for nao

>>1519867
I dunno, I like the idea of a superindustrialized island city-state too, imagine using our ironclads to defend ourselves against barbarian invasions

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The Greek who comes up with the idea of beeping gadget is disapointed. He made two of them, when he press the button on the first, the second makes a buzzing noise even if they aren't connected by a wire. What a stupid invention he thought, it's not like you need your scouts to communicate instantly with the vanguard of an army. He throws his invention into the sea.

You produce some wind mills and attach a Volta battery to them, at night you have now all your coast and all the villas bathing in electric light. Speaking about villa, you distributed the land fairly among your followers and start to write your Constitution based on the principles of your revolution.

What now ?
>Research more powerful electric engine/generator
>Try for black powder again
>Where are the women ? Hey, pirate buddy bring us some women :-DDD (roll dice+1d2)
You can be more than one IP to roll the dice. I will take the side which has the most results

Stats
Charisma 80/100
Intelligence 80/100
Strengh 40/100

Daily revenue
-5000 stesterces from steel trade

Personal army
40 Gauls (warriors and hunter) used for steel production
20 Bretons (craftmen and druids) used for electric device production
20 Greeks (scientist and strategists) used for research
10 Carthaginian (sailor and merchants) used for trade

Elba Inventory
-10 kg of steel (permanent, cannot be sold)
-20 light bulb
-5 volta batteries
-5 wind powered generator

>>1519895
Will the greeks leave if we bring women?

>>1519895
What the fugg
What a mad cunt
We just didnt need it for now re greeks

>>1519895
>Try for black powder again
See if we can't make cannons!

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1519895

we

want

women

>>1519899
If you roll 1, everything can only be better. If not... well something happens

>>1519900
the Greek was a special snowflake and you hurt his feelings, apologize

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1519895
>>Where are the women ? Hey, pirate buddy bring us some women :-DDD (roll dice+1d2)

>>1519903
Gib the special memeflake a gf

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>2 votes for women
>opposite rolls
alea jacta est lads

>>1519895
>>Where are the women ? Hey, pirate buddy bring us some women :-DDD (roll dice+1d2)

>>1519911
Jib support on my roll boi

>>1519911
woops
well screw women then, acquire black powder, metallurgy and make canons

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1519911

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1519916
That's what I was saying!

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1519916
oh fuck didnt see that CANNONS

>>1519916

We need women to establish this island nation like rape of Sabine.

>>1519895
>>Try for black powder again
eh
I rolled a 1 to gib greek morse boi a gf
He better get an gf

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>>1519928
>>1519901
>>1519920

REEEE DON'T IGNORE ME

>>1519930
yes, but women are more easily acquirable with cannons innit

>>1519931
>>1519933
>>1519928
3 for cannons
No womens

>>1519935
you are woman

Don't try to change your vote because you jad a bad roll, I'm counting both

>>1519920
>>1519928
Why did you roll if you wanted black powder ?

Counting
5 black powder
6 rolls for women

>>1519895
black powder

>>1519951
I thought i was meant to

>>1519951
I wanted to make cannons actually.

>>1519895
Canons over wenches *tips fedora*

>>1519969
Least spell it write.

>>1519970
>being ableist
Literally shaking rn

>>1519951
Also I like the thread OP

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Ok, this is what would have happened with the women choice currently with a majority of "2" rolls
The pirate brings you the most beautiful creature of the mediterranea. They are so pretty it hurts a little inside, a-are they actually mermaid ?... nhaaa...

They are so pilite and elegant too, where did he find them ? And why someone would want to be separated from these angels ? After a short welcome party on the beach everyone find a girl to bring back home. Even the Greek boy ending up with a girl two years his elder and who find him cute.

This thing is... THEY HAD SYPHILIS.

You have now to urgently develop peniciline to save your life and your followers, but Rome is attacking ! With no other choice you flee to Masillia and ask the Gauls for cheeses with molds...

Actually...

You send the pirate ship in Naple to get your sulphur and as soon as it returns you have to decide how you are going to use this black powder. Naturally, you go for cannons. What could go wrong ? Everybody can operate a cannon right ? RIGHT ? The night take over the island and everyone return to his home... alone...

>Are you actually gay ?
Popularity -10, Charisma -10
>You helped with the cannons and kept your vital essence for yourself
Muscle +20, Strengh +20

Two hours in the morning, the sentinel on the coast has spotted one, two... three Roman galleys with the eletric projector ! You have to run to the alert bell since you don't have an electric alarm. Everyone is ready to defend the island. The roman catapults miss everytime, your cannons are ready. But... There is innocent people on board...

>Fire red cannonballs on the sails and let them burn alive !
>Target all galleys under the waterline and try to sink them.
>Screw cannons, dispose explosive charge on the beach and wire them

Stats
Charisma 70/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 60/100

Daily revenue
-5000 stesterces from steel trade

Personal army
40 Gauls (warriors and hunter) used for steel production
20 Bretons (craftmen and druids) used for electric device production
20 Greeks (scientist and strategists) used for black powder production
10 Carthaginian (sailor and merchants) used for trade

Elba Inventory
-10000 sesterces
-30 light bulb
-10 volta batteries
-10 wind powered generator
-3 cannons and 30 simple cannons balls with their charge

>>1520006
>>Fire red cannonballs on the sails and let them burn alive !

this quest is ridiculous, lmao

>>1520006
Do they know how to swim? I assume yes cause they're in the navy only a short swim to shore but...

>>1520006
>>Target all galleys under the waterline and try to sink them.

>>1520006
Frankly I don't know, but might as well fire hot shots just in case right?
>>Fire red cannonballs on the sails and let them burn alive !

>>1520025
the ones that swim ashore shall be violently raped and then murdered

>>1520052
Nigga no.

>>1520006
>Target all galleys under the waterline and try to sink them.

Send boats out to grab survivors and crap.

>>1520055
vae victis lad, though I suppose we can spare a few ones to work as slaves in the copper mines/sex pits

Maybe... theres women survivors :^)

>>1520057
We just wrote a fucking constituition saying not to do ANY of those things. Besides, we hold some of them, ransom them, then send the highest ranking officer to report to Cesar, saying we won't talk to anyone else but him.

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It takes a dozen of try to target just under the waterline only one galley. It sinks very fast and the survivors and up on the beach. Same for the second except this time it takes all your reserve of black powder. It gives plenty of time to think to the commander of the last galley, he decided to make a tactical retreat and inform Rome of what he saw.

Tactical Victory
Intelligence +10
Charisma +10
Strengh +10

The prisonners are presented to you, a centurion defy your gaze. He says Rome will not stand this and more will come. You know it to be true. Hopefully, sending back the soldiers when you took over the island showed you are someone who we can talk with. Most prisonners were slaves, actually all the rowers and want to join your Republic. You have three days to prepare.

What now
>spend one day to max charisma
>forge individual steel weapons and armor for your followers
>send the pirate ship to Naples to get more Sulphur and use black powder to sabotage the port of Rome (roll dice+1d2)

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1520123
>forge individual steel weapons and armor for your followers
>Send the pirate ship to Naples to get more Sulphur and use black powder to sabotage the port of Rome (roll dice+1d2)

Tell them we want to talk to Ceaser goddamn it.

>>1520130
You have three days to prepare for such a thing

>>1520140
To talk to Ceaser or forge weapons?

>>1520123
>>spend one day to max charisma
Centurion. We are an ally of rome :^)

ROMES GREATEST ALLY

>>1520130
>>1520142
I realise how confusing this might be, this >>1520123 is your choice for Day 1, you will be given a choice for Day 2 and Day 3

>>1520145
Nah that's something we want to do the last day so we don't lose charisma before Iulius comes

>>forge individual steel weapons and armor for your followers

>>1520145
Changing my vote to back this, convince them we want to talk to Ceaser, be made a province of Rome, and contribute our inventions to the glory of the Legions!

>>1520123
>>forge individual steel weapons and armor for your followers

It's a tie

We could always forge steel weapons and armours while the ship grabs saltpeter without attacking the ports :^)

>>1520268
flip a coin

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You spend one day raising your charisma temporary to level 100, it will last until the big day of whatever is to come. Since you don't have time to forge weapons or travel to Naples and get sulphur, your options for Day 2 and 3 are limited.

Day 2
>spend one day to max strengh
>hire mercenaries to have more men
>send a commercial delegation in the port of Rome and try to ease the tensions (roll dice+1d2)

Day 3
>spend one day to max intelligence
>prepare few of your best invention for a demonstration in case they want to speak
>try to produce paper and write down your Constitution, invent a press to mass print it and flood Rome with it (roll dice+1d2)

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1520321
>send a commercial delegation in the port of Rome and try to ease the tensions (roll dice+1d2)
Send gunpowder!

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1520326
this and
>prepare few of your best invention for a demonstration in case they want to speak
for day 3

>>1520321
>prepare a few of your best inventions for a demonstration in case they want to speak.
Namely the lightbulbs and the newer steel!

>>1520332
>>1520326
these

I will come back in 5 hours feel free to debate about what you are going to say to the emperor and vote options for day 2 and 3

So, I think that we're basically locked down for the options on days 2 and 3, but what I propose, is that we tell the Emperor our business model.

We talk in private, saying that they just traded their old Master for us. They're still by all technicality slaves, as we can enforce our will onto them via with others via our immense charisma. We let them THINK they're free, when really their labor is not meant to build themselves up as they are lead to believe, but build our glory and benefit as a bonus. Propose we do this for ALL slaves in the Empire! They're still slaves, they can't afford a house, but they have a "salary", which they can pump into the economy. Add in the bonus of our inventions, canons, light bulbs, better means of production, and Rome will enter a golden age the likes of which it had never seen...

All he has to do, is make us his right hand, and let us keep this island as our villa.

>>1520355
Yep, basically I'll make you all these amazing machines as long as you fund me and let me keep my island

>>1520358
Flame throwers, cannons, printing presses, killing us is a waste really.

Bumping just in case.

>>1520612
there's no reason to bump anything on /qst/, this is a practically dead board

>>1520620
Nigga don't judge me.

>>1520332
This

I don't trust the romans to not use our gunpowder against us.

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Your commercial delegation sets foot in the Roman harbor and start selling small quantities of your manufactured goods. It's and instant sucess, everybody want the shiny bulb of glass that runs on wind power (or can be recharged by a slave actionning the engine). A source of light that doesn't set fire to your place when it's neglected... might be interesting in the future...

>You created the demand for your products
The negociation will be easier if you try a commercial approach with Rome

Spending your last day producing a vast amount of the same products you also created the supply. However, the island is defensless, no weapons, no mercenaries, no sabotaging on the Roman fleet and the source of sulphur was too far to make black powder on time. On the third day you spot 10 galleys in the distance. It seems that using normal cannonballs didn't impress them back then, they believe you just used very accurate catapults and got lucky on the three galleys. The commander of the fleet demand you to surrender.

Curiously they don't want to totally annhilate you, maybe some senators heard about you have to offer to Rome. Reluctantly you leave the island and is escorted in the senate.

>You maxed you charisma
The merchant branch of the senate stays
>You didn't maxed your strengh
The military branch of the senate leave
>You didn't maxed you intelligence
The scientist branch of the senate leave

The emperor is here, he watches as you negotiate a trade agreement between Elba and Rome. You can't keep the island, a Roman garnison will be permanently stationned on it, most of your followers will flee the island. They didn't stay just for you, they thought you would defeat Rome or at least propose something different... They were wrong. However, with the empire supplying slaves, charcoals for the furnaces and Hemimorphite for the zinc, the island operates itself alone. Rome relies now on electricity for lighting instead of fire.

>You prevented the great fire of Rome.
The population grows from 1 millions to 1.2 millions
+10 Charisma
+10 Intelligence
+10 Strengh

The emperor got bored and left, maybe you will have more luck next year. What bow

What to do for this year ?
>Go to Naples where the sulphur is and try to start a black powder industry (loose money)
>Beg the Greeks to stay and ask them to work with you on a steam engine (charisma drop)
>Skip a year and research more advanced electric engine for industrial use (roll dice+1d2)

Also choose on other action
>Go to the Public Baths and try to flirt with some unmarried or non engaged women
>Invent a recipe, befriend rich people to get new opportunities with the legion
>Go to the Forum and try to sell to the public what you just invented in the previous question

Stats
Charisma 80/100
Intelligence 70/100
Strengh 70/100

Daily revenue
-100 stesterces from Elba

Inventory
-100 stesterces
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals

>>1521629
>Go to Naples where the sulphur is and try to start a black powder industry
I don't see the use for a steam engine just yet, but QM, will the Greeks leave if we don't beg them?
>Invent a recipe, befriend rich people to get new opportunities with the legion
Invent rations for the legions! No more stopping at camps, you can keep marching for days!

We need something that won't spoil and can be cooked though... maybe something instant?

>>1521673
OH! I KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD INVENT!! PIZZA!

>>1521681
We don't got the tomatoes though.

>>1521724
THEN USE ANOTHER SAUCE MAN WE HAVE TO INFECT ROME WITH ITALIAN MEMES EARLY

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>>1521735
Memes you say?

>>1521765
We have to EVOLVE them...

And we can do so, via Pizza.

>>1521629
>Go to Naples where the sulphur is and try to start a black powder industry (loose money)
>Invent a recipe, befriend rich people to get new opportunities with the legion

>>1521724
>what is fresh cream pizza
plebbus maximus

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>1521629
>>Skip a year and research more advanced electric engine for industrial use (roll dice+1d2
>>1521629
>>Invent a recipe, befriend rich people to get new opportunities with the legion

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Spending your sesterces to ride a carriage and start your journey south to Naples or to be more accurate one of the most famous city of the Roman Empire... Pompeii... The city is home of about thirty thousand people, the soil is fertile, the economy is blooming thanks to its strategic location. Everything destined Pompeii to be a major province capital of this area rich in sulphur.

Spending the rest of your money you buy flour and eggs to make pastas, a simple rectangle of fazzoletti. You set a stand just outside the arena and start distributing your super "Roman" noodles, something "fresh out of the capital". With the rich seasoning of the region there are all kinds of spicy noodles, it's actually quite refreshing and you remember the twenty first century.

>Actually some good food
Nostalgia +20, Strengh +20

Some centurion is intrigued by your pasta. Is this really made from that yellow dry leaf ? Of course it is, it can even last one year before getting spoiled, all it needs is boiled water. Merchant are also very interested by your invention which some of them have seen made in far east. Tonight, you are not going to be alone with your noodle, you have been invited to multiple parties.

So you came here for sulphur and head to the volcano which you know will erupt in 50 years or so, but you also notice how volcanic ashes has made the soil more fertile. For the 50 next years, there could be only one business running here.

Afternoon
>Concentrate on sulphur for black powder
50 years of production is all you need
>Investigate volcanic ashes as fertilizer
imagine the effect on population grow on 50 years
>Save Pompeii by all means (roll dice+1d2)

Tonight
>Merchant party
>Legion party
>screw this, start your own pasta company and use ancient shitposting to advertise (roll dice+1d2)

>>1523419
>Investigate volcanic ashes as fertilizer
>Merchant party

>>1523419
>Concentrate on sulphur for black powder
>Legion party

why grow a town that'll get shreked

>>1523419
>>Concentrate on sulphur for black powder
Wash afterwards please.

>>Legion party
Legate noble womens here we come :^)))))

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>You didn't save Pompeii
In 50 years all the region will perish, people will suffocate in their sleep, plants will die
-10 charisma
-10 intelligence
-10 strengh

Gathering sulphur, salpeter and charcoal you make some firecrackers for the Legion party and wash yourself in the Public Baths with the few sesterces you made from your pasta stand. You are just as clean as any Roman, using soap that some lunatic developed in Rome before mysteriously vanishing. Invited in the tent of the local camp commander you drink wine and thank the god Bacchus for the abundant recolt. Enough to sustain the city in local fruits and grappes, not enough to be independant from Egyptian wheat though.

You serve small bowls of salmon, tagliatelle and fresh cheese seasoned with laurier, accompanied with the wine it tastes like a delicacy from heaven. Military are pleased but Roman austerity tradition refrain them from too much extravagence. They are not ready to invest in a pasta company. However they demand for the recipe... They demand it politely since you look quite strong... Actually they would like to pay 500 sesterces you for the recipe since they respect strengh.

>Roman legion are now using pasta as combat rations, no need to settle to bake bread
Choose a region to annex with this new combat rations (you will be given the option to join the campaign at the end of this year)
>Middle East
>Eastern Europe
>Germany
>Scotland/Irland
>Caucasus

Outside the tent guests play with your firecrackers. Reactions are diverse, some are scared, some are really enjoying themseves (women and sisters of the officers) and few legionnaires make a very serious face...

>"Hey girl ! I see you don't wear an engagement ring :-DDD"
>"Why so serious legate ? You are interested by my firecrackers ?"
>use charisma to make the commander drunk on wine (roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-70=30)
new rolling system depending on your stats now

Stats[b/lue]
Charisma 70/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 80/100

Inventory
-100 stesterces
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals
-5 firecrackers
-2 slices of fazzoletti

>>1523585
>>"Hey girl ! I see you don't wear an engagement ring :-DDD"

>>1523585
>>Germany

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>1523585
>Middle East
No Sasanian Empire. Let the barbarians stay in their swamp.
>use charisma to make the commander drunk on wine (roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-70=30)

>>1523608
what are ya? gay?

>>1523608
Also fuck the middle east.
Its a fuckhole and shit for romans legions

>>1523608
this for the commander
>>1523590
this for the province

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With enough charisma, you manage to make the commander drunk on wine. He accepts to present you to the governor of the province and you go to sleep in a soldier tent... alone...

>Are you gay ?
Frustration +10, Charisma -10
>You are drunk
Drunk +10; Strengh -10
>You get some more money for the recipe
+500 sesterces

Meeting with the governor as the "pasta guy" you kept some firecrackers from last time and make him a demonstration. You propose him to industrialize on a large scale one type of black powder based weapon. This weapon will be available for one legion for the next 50 years (turns). Also, you have made up your mind, you will go to Germania with that legion if the chance presents itself the next year.

What weapon this legion should have ?
>congreve rockets to replace catapults
>flame thrower inside a turtle formation
>handgrenade for every soldier

With your contacts in the military you can meet a Praefectii and force the generalization of one of your previous invention too all the legions, so it would not only be for civilian use or eclusive to one legion. You could also try to meet some merchant in a less favorable context and try your independant black powder business.

Walking in the city (which is your first view of the Roman world outside Rome) you cannot ignore all the social inequalities, where malnourished beggar live one foot from obese merchant, where the rule of law is just a word, where locals never accepted the pax romana. If Rome want to annex new territories, maybe they should know about some trick from one of their future descendant named Machiaveli. What about writting the book yourself ? It's the perfect climate to do so.

>Spread the use of one invention to all Roman legions
-Præfectus castrorum, engineering and artillery (black powder)
-Præfectus fabrum, armor and weapons (steel)
-Præfectus castris, managing the camp (soap)
-Præfectus equitum, cavalry (stirrup, in this case you will be propsoed the invention route AND the generalization)
>Meet a merchant an start your black powder business (roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-60=40)
>write down "The Prince" by anon, 16 century before Machiaveli

Stats
Charisma 60/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 70/100

Inventory
-600 stesterces
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals
-2 slices of fazzoletti

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>1523784
>>flame thrower inside a turtle formation
>Meet a merchant and start your black powder business

ree we become more gay every turn

>>1523784
>flame thrower
good luck hiding in the forest against this, or facing it in melee
>-Præfectus castrorum, engineering and artillery (black powder)
obviously, arty is OP as shit

>>1523875
>arty is OP as shit
you don't know that, what use is a black powder bomb against a fast moving Mongol hord

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>>1523880
>mongol horde
but we'll be up against german fucking shits

>>1523888
it was just an example didn't mean to give any indication on the scenario

yes, you will end up in Germania if you choose to at the end of this turn

Where op
RE

>>1523917
but there is a tie on the second option, what should I do ?

Roll for it

1- Merchant
2- Artillery

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>1523784
>flame thrower inside a turtle formation

>Meet a merchant an start your black powder business (roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-60=40)

Hope I don't fuck up the roll

or he can post cool

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>You made a flamethrower
Megumin +20, Intelligence +20

Now this legion will be equiped with this deadly weapon. It is a ceramic tube spitting fire continuously for 30 seconds. Too heavy to be manipulated by only one soldier. If they find themselves encircled by barbarian this could be useful.

You decide to go to the Forum and discuss with rich merchants now that your are famous for the black powder. They wonder if it is really destined for civilian use. You talk about moving obstacles to build road faster or fireworks, it could even clear a path in the Alps to get in Germania faster and creating trading routes ! They agree to sponsor your little arsenal, right at the bottom of the volcano (to gather sulphur more easily).

>You stink
Rotten eggs smell +20, Charisma -20

How are you going to collect salpeter on this scale ?
>try to remember if there are caves in the mountain near your site of production where you can find it
>use your charisma to make all the latrinium of the empire provide you with salpeter and never ever lack of it
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-40=60)
>buy it and divide your revenue by two

How are you going to collect charcoal on this scale ?
>use your charisma to make mandatory for citizens to provide the burned wood in their chimney and never lack of it
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-40=60)
>slave coming from Germania should carry coals when they come in Italy, your production will depend of the war in Germania
>pay lumberjacks to cut trees, transform the wood in charcoal and divide your revenue by two

Stats
Charisma 40/100
Intelligence 80/100
Strengh 70/100

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Rolled 24, 19 = 43 (2d100)

>>1524026
>>use your charisma to make all the latrinium of the empire provide you with salpeter and never ever lack of it

>use your charisma to make mandatory for citizens to provide the burned wood in their chimney and never lack of it

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Rolled 43, 18 = 61 (2d100)

re

Umm

Changing my vote to
>>try to remember if there are caves in the mountain near your site of production where you can find it

>>slave coming from Germania should carry coals when they come in Italy, your production will depend of the war in Germania

>>1524040
lad what the FUCK are you doing

>>1524026
>remember caves
>pay lumberjacks

Get new clothes ffs

I'm sorry lads

back in 6 hours, if you want to make better rolls or write in for what is to follow, feel free to do so

Rolled 31, 84 = 115 (2d100)

>>1524026
> take a bath
>use your charisma to make all the latrinium of the empire provide you with salpeter and never ever lack of it
>use your charisma to make mandatory for citizens to provide the burned wood in their chimney and never lack of it

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because I'm fair and kind, I will take the highest roll for each of the selected option

>>1524087
>84
>use your charisma to make mandatory for citizens to provide the burned wood in their chimney and never lack of it

>>1524043
>43
>use your charisma to make all the latrinium of the empire provide you with salpeter and never ever lack of it

So you get your chain of supply of charcoal for black powder. Anywhere in the empire, if you start an arsenal you will not lack charcoal. That's awesome, the law passed in the senate ! But... If you remember your History lesson on the urine tax, the Romans don't, "money does not stink", but salpeter recolted in latrinium actually smells like piss. When you asked the governor to send the law proposition to the senate a merchant was already here and he heard and smelled enough of you to give you the reputation of the "Piss Guy". Bad luck it seems. Yep, that guy who created the pastas is the "Piss Guy". Forget about meeting anyone new until the end of the next year, pasta will never be commercialized in Rome.

You arsenal is producing a fair amount of black powder and you get all the revenue without having to pay for charcoal or salpeter supplies. You produce 1 ton per year (until Pompeii get destroyed by the volcano at least). How do you want to dispatch this year production and how to ?

>just let the merchants sell everything and get the sesterces
>deplace it near the Germania border for latter
-ask pirate buddy (a quarter of the stock just "disappear")
-ask drunk commander (a quarter of the legion disappear after starting a campire near the barrels, it was just minor accidents and nearly all the black powder is secured)
-spend all your sesters tp organize a convoy
>make a giant firework and try to raise your charisma (you will still be known as the "Piss Guy" and loose all the black powder)

Stats
Charisma 60/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 70/100

Inventory
-600 stesterces
-1t of blackpowder
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals
-2 slices of fazzoletti

>>1525128
>Let the merchants sell half for civilian use and get the sesterces
>Place it with the legion near the Germania border for latter use in the campaign

Didn't we have a soap business to take care of hygene and shit?
fuck, we need a wife or something to clean our shit.

Fuck it, recall your history to look for a roman female heir 20th in line that everyone dismissed but eventually is first in line. Then marry her.

Seriously, why arent we buying new clothes and wash up?

>>1526403
>>1526532
Piss thing is reputation only, for the sulphur it is because you run the business.

You actually live near a mountain of sulphur, what did you expect ? I can rise you charisma by +20 after you take a bath but the second you go back to your arsenal the smell take over for -20 charisma.

I will give you a permanent option against smell sometimes.

>>1526145
You also have to choose how you are going to transport it, but I suppose you want to use the sesterces from the black powder bill to organize a convoy, yes ?

>>1526962
>suppose you want to use the sesterces from the black powder bill to organize a convoy, yes ?
Yes, hit the nail on the head there! See if our mate from the garrison can spare some legionaries to safeguard the convoy, especially as we're helping out the war effort.

>>1526968
Yeah that's the kind of extremely sensible material to warrant a military escort
not to mention it's destined for the army, they'd be retarded not to protect it

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You made 500 sesterces from the black powder deal, but use 600 sesterces to transfer it in Mediolanum (Milan). Overall you loose 100 sesterces in the operation. The barrels are escorted by some legionnaires of the legion which is about to leave for Germania. Since you hired profesisionals for the transport, they warn the soldiers to not make camp fire near the barrels.

Your "piss guy" reputation is starting to piss you off, you are also stil quite frustrated. Wandering around near the rich villas just to have a closer look of the women activity in Pompeii, you notice most of their time is spend on looming machine. Apparently, making your own clothes is something laborous but a sign of wealth. Also, these poor women who could be in parks and gardens instead of their home... alone... Maybe it is time for some textile innovation.

The sun is setting and head back to your arsenal. On the road you notice every house has at least one light bulb powered by a volta battery.

>Invent knitting needles (first use 200AD in Peru)
women will now be more available, you may try to find one who hasn't heard of the "piss guy"
>Invent spinning wheel (first use 500AD in India)
sudden drop of yarn's price, you can change of basic clothes whenever your want
>Add electric engine to looming machines for both of the previous effects
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-40=60)

Stats
Charisma 60/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 70/100

Inventory
-500 stesterces
-500kg of blackpowder
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals
-2 slices of fazzoletti

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>1527055
>Add electric engine to looming machines for both of the previous effects
nat 1

>>1527055
>Invent spinning wheel (first use 500AD in
Easy win
+
Go find some eligible women, flash our cash around

>>1527105
>Go find some eligible women
You are still the "piss guy", only women who stay in their home haven't heard of you and the spinning wheel won't make them come out.

>>1527055
>Invent spinning wheel (first use 500AD in India)

>>1527107
Can we remove that rep?

>>1527118
>Can we remove that rep?
it will last one year at least due to a bad roll.

Ok, this time, it's a true spoiler :
At the end of Year Two, when you will depart for Germania (or something else depending of your choice) an option will be proposed.

invent spin wheel
>>1527118
we could disappear like that mad soap goy

wherer op

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Grabbing a wheel of a broken chariot from a recent spectacle, yuo manage to get some raw wool and start making a yarn in the shadow of the arena. People curiously look at you, the "piss guy" who just made a yarn in less than a minute. Sadly nobody dare to approach you, so you leave the place with a basket of yarns back to your arsenal, leaving the spinning wheel there for someone else to take credit. Yarn price drops signifanctly, you can buy clothes for almost nothing and get a wardrobe. Manipulating sulphur and other chemical elements will no longer leave a permanent smell on you since you can change clothes often and use Public Bath's soap.

>No longer stink
Clean +20, Charisma +20

Legio XIX is about to leave for Mediolanum (Milan) in three days. You have to prepare if you want to accompany them but also find out someone to run your business here while you are abroad. However... You are still the "piss guy", the rumor is sarting to fade but but not fast enough.

What do ?
>hey pirate buddy, you wanna start selling black powder ?
annual production is reduced to 500kg, one of the former enemy or Rome will get black powder you can still travel to that city
-Carthago
-Alexandria
-Antioch
(roll dice+1d3)
>spend one day to max your charisma before facing the senate again if you choose to join the Legio XIX
>sell your arsenal to the merchants
you can't decide what to do with the annual production, it's for civil engineering only (population growth)

Stats
Charisma 80/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 70/100

Inventory
-500 stesterces
-500kg of blackpowder
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals
-2 slices of fazzoletti

>>1527220
>spend one day to max your charisma before facing the senate again if you choose to join the Legio XIX

Lease our business to the local governor with the understanding that we will continue to run it once we return.

Train one of his staff in the basics of the production process so he can run things.

>>1527220
>>spend one day to max your charisma before facing the senate again if you choose to join the Legio XIX

We could do what normal masters of farms do.

They get a educated slave, normally greek or phoenician to run the bizniz

>>1527220
Suggestion
>spend one day buying a learned slave
>spend one day teaching him about our business so he can oversee it while we're gone
>dunno for the last day

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You practiced your speech skill a whole day in fornt of a bronze polished plate because no one want to speak to a "piss guy". You still have to find someone to run your business if you choose to leave the city and join the legion on time for Germania.

>Maximus Charismus
Speech +20, Charisma +20

>spend one day to temporarly max your intelligence before facing the senate again if you choose to join the Legio XIX
>try your luck to the slave market to find someone to teach how to run your business
-greek slave, annual production 2t
-phoenician slave, annual production 1t
-briton slave, annual production 500kg
-slav slave, annual production 100kg
-nubian slave, annual production 10kg
(roll dice+1d5 and loose 500 sesterces)
>pack your own gear for the war if you want to go to Germania
-ratios of pastas and sealed meat in metal containers
-leather canteen with a camel back option
-soaps (since it's not used in the army)
-warm leather pant with wool lining
(loose 500 sesterces)
you never know what you will find

Rolled 1 (1d5)

>>1527237
>>try your luck to the slave market to find someone to teach how to run your business

>>1527238
mfw nat 1 greek accounting slave

>>1527239
nice one lad

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You treat you slave well, growing the number of loyal followers from 2 to 3 (including the drunk general, the pirate buddy). Speaking of them, how are they called already ?

What are their names ?
>Greek slave
>Pirate buddy
>Drunk General

Your new partner seems very enthusiast about your black powder thing. The business is in good hands now, the next year you will probably have 2t of black powder. Only one day left before facing the senate and ask them to join the Legio XIX, how should you spend your last day ?

>teach the slave some more alchemy so that he can run a chemical industry and research sulfuric acid (available in the next cycle)
>teach the slave some more maths so he can run a a bank with the modern concepts of loan and insurance (available in the next cycle)
>spend one day to temporarly max your strengh before facing the senate again if you choose to join the Legio XIXstrengh is respected in the army

>>1527254
>>Greek slave
Aeson
>>Pirate buddy
Melqart Essonum
>>Drunk General
Antonius Gaius (biggus dickus)

>spend one day to temporarly max your strengh before facing the senate again if you choose to join the Legio XIXstrengh is respected in the army

>>1527254
max strength

Where dat OP

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You depart to Rome to face the senate once more, it seems to nobody is calling you "piss guy" after you leave the walls. You leave your home in the care of the greek slave without a wife to return to...

>Are you gay ?
frustration +100, cha... jk

Rome is blooming like never before, public sanitation has improved, light bulbs everywhere, there is also more slave available since stonecutter were partially replaced by the use of black powder. It is now time to bring civilization to barbarians. The Senate is ready to hear what you have to say... well at least the military and merchant branch, scientists left. The emperor is just watching as usual, you still don't impress him.

The imperator immedialty want to name someone like you at least tribunii of the general Antonius Gaius because you are worthy enough. You will meet again some of the guys you befriended, namely the three brothers and the senator's son. There is also this guy... Arminius...

Legio XIX inventory
-50 black powder flamethrowers
-500kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)

Legio XIX stats
Endurance 100/100
Health 100/100
Moral 50/100

Your Stats
Charisma 100/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 70/100

Your Inventory
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals
-2 slices of fazzoletti

Point of no return now, do you really want to go to war ? Just using the Legio XIX simple pasta ratios and flamethrowers ?
>I ain't no Senato's son (charisma reach 30/100)
>stay in Rome and spend one year to develop more powerful electric engine (4/5 years left)
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-40=60)
>They will do fine without me, I just have to kill that Arminius guy and shout "traitor" loudly in the senate
(roll dice+1d2)
Alea jacta est :-DDD

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>>1527288
I forget the option :
>YES, GO TO WAR

>>1527288
>>1527294
>>>YES, GO TO WAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFOo86PDDuE

We'll either try to shank or expose Arminius when it's less suicidal for us

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Legio XIX is marching toward Mediolanum (Milan), your tour of duty as a citizen as begun. You will bring civilization to the barbarians. The march is exhausting, you thought they would never stop. Your feet hurt, you are thirsty. Next step is after the alps, just before the barbarian territory. You jump on your legion ratios and even eat your supplementary slices of fazzoletti. Soldiers are given a perm in Mediolanum before the next march. it's the last big Roman city, after that you will have to trade with barbarian for everything.

>Marathon
Exhausted +20, Your Sterngh -20, Legio XIX Endurance -10

>ask the senator's son if you can join the cavalry to never get exhausted from all the campaign
>Study the map leading to Germania, maybe you can use 100 kg of black powder to clear a path in the mountains
(no exhaustion for the next march)
>Ask Gaius to lend you some money and choose on item to add in your inventory
-ratios of pastas
-leather canteen
-soaps
-warm pant
>desertion (back to Rome safely, charisma reach 30)

Legio XIX inventory
-50 black powder flamethrowers
-500kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)

Legio XIX stats
Endurance 90/100
Health 100/100
Moral 50/100

Your Stats
Charisma 100/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 50/100

Your Inventory
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals

>>1527305
>>Ask Gaius to lend you some money and choose on item to add in your inventory
>soap

Maybe ask arminius to see our blackpowder.. and maybe an "accident" happens and he dies in the explosion.
10kg of blackpowder should be gud

>>1527307
yeah that sounds pretty good
maybe have him try out one of the flamethrowers? pre-modern era machinery was so prone to failures after all

also we should make some legionary bros (both plebs and officers) to have our back in the inevitable battle

>>1527305
also why doesn't our inventory mention our weapons and armour?

>>1527307
Sounds good, supporting.

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Crossing the Alps was a major problem for Hannibal and Julius, but somehow not for you. The Legio XIX starts its march just after you pathetically begged Gaius for money.

>Beggar
shame +10, Your Charisma -10, Legio XIX Moral -10

>Climbing in the cold
Exhausted +20, Your Sterngh -20, Legio XIX Endurance -20

>No additional ratios
Hunger +10, Your Sterngh -10

Just before reaching Zurich, your scout spotted an Helvetii tribe marching toward the Legio XIX. (too bad they couldn't inform you sooner with some kind of telecommunication device) They haven't crossed the Reuss river yet, they can still be stopped. You could destroy the only bridge giving them access to Zurich or wait them here and fight with your flamethrowers even if the Legio's moral is low.

>Wait them at the bridge and fight them
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-40=60)
>Destroy the bridge with 100kg of black powder
>Recruit them as auxiliaries with the help of Arminius

After the battle (or negociation), you have to decide how to prepare for the next march in the dense forests and dirty swamps of Germania
>organize the transport of materials to build a fort in the future location of Stuttgart (raise legio moral)
>use the Rhine river to transport heavy supplies, but the legio have to march on a swamp near the river (no endurance drop)
>This wood... I don't like it. Burn it and pass through. (use 200 kg of black powder, raise your strengh)

>Ask Gaius to lend you some money and choose on item to add in your inventory
-ratios of pastas
-leather canteen
-warm pant
>desertion (back to Rome safely, charisma reach 30)

Legio XIX inventory
-50 black powder flamethrowers
-500kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)

Legio XIX stats
Endurance 70/100
Health 100/100
Moral 40/100

Your Stats
Charisma 100/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 30/100

Your Inventory
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals

>>1527311
all standard equipment is here

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>1527335
>>Wait them at the bridge and fight them
Rome does not tremble

>organize the transport of materials to build a fort in the future location of Stuttgart (raise legio moral)

Alright just go with Blow the bridge....

can someone do a better roll ?

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>1527335
>Wait them at the bridge and fight them
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-40=60)
60 DC to beat a tribe of barbarians in a defensive battle on a bridge? [doubt]
also let's not rely on arminius at all

>build a fort

Rolled 66 (1d100)

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>3 success one failure

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The barbarians stamping furiously on the other side of the bridge can only throw at you vague insult you don't really understand. They are about to flee and don't fight you, but since your soldiers are exceptionally brave one cohort accept to face them alone. Barbarians see a chance here and decide to charge. Your turtle formation is waiting, a flamethrower hiding inside. Legionnaires are holding the line, waiting... waiting... A warcry is echoeing in the valley but Rome does not tremble. The bridge is shaking under their assault and finally the fire of Rome is unleashed on the primitive. Thousands of people died in an instant.

>Contested territory
You will never pacify the place without killing them all now.

>This is nice fort
Bivouac +10, Your strengh +10, Legio XIX Morale +10

>No additional ratios
Hunger +10, Your Sterngh -10

Setting a fort in the future Stuttgard your legionnaires are resting and festing their first victory. You notice that the ratios are lacking meat, maybe a cohort should go hunting in this dangerous woods and bring something to restore their endurance. Or you could spend the night with your men talking about your experience with women and all to raise their moral. Or... You could prepare for the next region, a... swamp...

>A cohort should go hunting and bring back meat (Legio XIX Endurance increase)
>Spend the night with the legionnaires (Legio XIX Moral increase)
>Use 100kg of black powder to divert a river and drain the swamp (no Legio XIX Health loss)

What about talking a little bit with one guy in private ?
>Gaius, ask him if you can have more food (loose charisma)
>Arminius, try to know if he has prepared something for you in the next region
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess with charisma 100-100=0)
>The three brothers commanding each a cohort teach them about counter-insurgency techniques
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess with intelligence 100-60=40)
>The senator's son commanding the cavalry, use cavalry as scout instead of fighting force it's not a shame to be a reckon
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess with strengh 100-30=70)

Legio XIX inventory
-40 black powder flamethrowers
-400kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)

Legio XIX stats
Endurance 70/100
Health 100/100
Moral 60/100

Your Stats
Charisma 100/100
Intelligence 60/100
Strengh 30/100

Your Inventory
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals
-soap

>>1527353
agree, I should have detailed the bait strategy and said that only one cohort was involved to make them come close enough to use a flamethrower

>>1527386
>>Arminius, try to know if he has prepared something for you in the next region

>Spend the night with the legionnaires (Legio XIX Moral increase)

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>>1527391
Arminius fails at hiding that he spend to much time outside the camp, you guess that something is up. Your First Century Sherlock Holms instinct (and your incredible charisma) reveal you that he has met with a tribe living after the swamp. Hence, you can reasonably assume you will be attacked right after the swamp when your men are the most exhausted.

Keeping an eye on the traitor you take place near a campfire, listening to the legionnaires stories. There is this one telling about a slutty cavewomen tier barbarian IX/X girl promising to "love you long time". Somehow you interupt a fight caused by ethnic tentions between Greeks and Iberians. When it's your turn to talk about your experience with women you... well you...

>Are you gay ?
shame +10, Your Charisma -10, Legio XIX Morale +10

How are you going to prepare for the trap of Arminius ?
>send small units with flamethrower to cut their retreat and stay on your guard for a frontal assault (Legio XIX Health loss, local tribe exterminated, territory claimed)
>lure them inside the swamp where you had build fortification (Legio XIX Endurance loss, local fleeing, territory contested)
>avoid them and let them join a bigger tribe that you will fight afterward maybe in better circumstances (at least another field, loose Charisma)
>Write In ____

>>1527447
>>send small units with flamethrower to cut their retreat and stay on your guard for a frontal assault (Legio XIX Health loss, local tribe exterminated, territory claimed)

>>1527447
>>send small units with flamethrower to cut their retreat and stay on your guard for a frontal assault (Legio XIX Health loss, local tribe exterminated, territory claimed)
PURGE MAIM BURN

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Advancing in the swamp, the mud, the mosquitoes, your men have to do as little noise as possible... They get sick.

>I made my time on the Rhine
Mekong +20, Health -20

>You get mud on you
Dirty -10, Charisma -10

The fog begins to dissipate... Just at the outskirt of the swamp, you see them. The Germans come out of the tree, man. Legionnaires are ready and hold the line, opposing their shield to the unorganized assault of the barbarians. Arrows rain down on the Legio XIX. It's a long battle of attrition like they are used to. Quickly the Romans turn the tide of the battle like always when they are outnumbered, there is no hope for the Germans. After loosing half of their forces, they begin to retreat and since legionnaires are not retrenched all the first line move forward. Flamethrower are ready to annhilate the survivor and reveal themselves. Trapped between the hammer and the anvil, there is no escape.

Crashing that swamp, with no survivors
>Region is conquered

Arminius seems displeased. You have to organise for the next region : Teutobourg, the grave of Roman ambition on Germania (in your timeline). It's basically one huge forest, there is also major coal deposits here.

>burn the forest (100kg of black powder, territory claimed, coal deposit lost)
>just prepare a camp far away from the forest (Legio XIX Endurance loss)
>negotiate and create a trade agreement to turn the warrior in miners
(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-60=40)

Legio XIX inventory
-30 black powder flamethrowers
-300kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)

Legio XIX stats
Endurance 70/100
Health 80/100
Moral 70/100

Your Stats
Charisma 90/100
Intelligence 50/100
Strengh 30/100

Your Inventory
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals
-soap

>>1527827
>>negotiate and create a trade agreement to turn the warrior in miners
If we're here for their minerals, getting them to get the minerals for us without a fight sounds like the best option.

Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>1527827
>>negotiate and create a trade agreement to turn the warrior in miners
>(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-60=40)

>>1527827
>(roll dice+1d100, treshold for sucess 100-60=40)
Are we supposed to roll with our vote, or do it afterwards?

>>1527881
Dont worry baby I rolled :^)

You founded a colony near Cologne, a cologny. With your out of this world grasp of politics you submitted all the barbarians to a gold against coal deal. However there is no current need for that, at the end of this year you will have to pay the miners with your own fortune (from the black powder business for exemple) or what you will "find" in Germany. You will have to pay 1000 sesterces.

>Pax Romana
Region is conquered

Arminius is a bit angry. You are now heading to the northern region of Germania, at last no more forest and swamp. You have plenty of time to settle a fort without getting your men exhausted. You are in Frankish territory, they will come. How will you spend your day in the camp and how do you prepare ?

(You)
>Gaius, ask him if you can have more food (loose charisma, restore strengh)
>Use your soap to clean yourself after the swamp (restore charisma)
>Speak with the swamp people and try to learn their language (restore intelligence)

Legio XIX
>A cohort should go hunting and bring back meat (Legio XIX Endurance +10)
>Arminius, try to know if he has prepared something for you in the next region
>Use cavalry to ravage all the small villages of the region (+1000 gold, territory contested)

Legio XIX inventory
-30 black powder flamethrowers
-300kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)

Legio XIX stats
Endurance 60/100
Health 80/100
Moral 70/100

Your Stats
Charisma 90/100
Intelligence 50/100
Strengh 30/100

Your Inventory
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals
-soap

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>>1528039
Map fixed

>>1528039
>>Speak with the swamp people and try to learn their language (restore intelligen
>Arminius, try to know if he has prepared something for you in the next region

>>1528061
this

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Arminius has nothing to say after all you are in Frankish territory, he starts to get quite infuriated at all your suspision. You clean yourself of all that swamp mud.

>Using soap
Clean +10, Charisma +10

The night sets on the camp and as you were expecting the Franks are here, completly surrounding the camp. The warriors who conquered Gaul and fought back the Sarrasins of western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. But somehow you thought that it was not worth preparing for.

>fight them (loose 1 character and strengh)
(roll dice+1d100, Moral treshold for sucess 100-70=30)
-Gaius
-Arminius
-Senator's son
-Brother1
-Brother2
-Brother3
And roll a dice+1d6 for the character who will die, you will loose 100kg of gunpowder
>defend the camp (loose charisma)
(roll dice+1d100, Endurance treshold for sucess 100-60=40)
And loose 200kg of gunpowder during their attack
>digg a tunnel and use all your gunpowder to place a bomb under their campment

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>1528162
>defend the camp (loose charisma)

Sweet fuck

>>1528662
nice

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Wow, just wow... Just with conventional defense the legionnaires annhilate the Franks. You don't need to use all your black powder. They thought they just had to approach the wooden door and set it on fire. If they were lucky they would have attacked during day time, thus noticing all the traps between them and the camp. So not only did they impaled themselves on pikes, but they did it all together. When the survivors approach the camp and set it on fire, Gaius order to open the Gate, so they believe that you are going to escape and mass all together in front of it and... charge... right on the flamethrower...

>Massacre
-100 kg of gunpowder, region conquered

After killing the wounded and eating your pasta ratios, it's time to move on to the next region where for the first time in History, Roman meet Viking settlements. Your scouts described what look like a drakkar and several fishermen village. Since it tool some time for the information to come, the viking are already retrenched in the villages. You know about this blond haired barbarians, all they want is gold and if they know about Rome, it's over.

What do ?
>Build catapults and annhilate them with the fishermen
Legio XIX endurance loss
200kg of black powder lost
Territory conquered
(roll dice+1d100, Intelligence treshold for sucess 100-50=50)
>fight them
Legio XIX morale loss
100kg of black powder lost
Territory contested
>hire them as auxiliary
pay them anually 1000 gold
strengh loss

Legio XIX inventory
-30 black powder flamethrowers
-300kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)

Legio XIX stats
Endurance 60/100
Health 80/100
Moral 70/100

Your Stats
Charisma 100/100
Intelligence 50/100
Strengh 30/100

Your Inventory
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals

>>1530206
*Legio XIX inventory
*-20 black powder flamethrowers
*-200kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)

>>1530206
>hire them as auxiliary
pay them anually 1000 gold
strengh loss

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Vikings are now auxiliaries of Rome, as long as you pay them everything will be fine...Arminius just go completly crazy, he might try to do something against you but Legio XIX is now entering a territory he knows well. How do you want to travel to the next region ?

>Use drakkars to transport the material for building the camp (no Legio XIX Endurance -10, Strengh (respect) -10)
>Use Vikings as scouts to see if there are any ambush (Legio XIX Morale -10)
>Use cavalry and convince Senator's son it is not unworthy to scout (no stat loss)
(roll dice+1d100, Intelligence treshold for sucess 100-20=80)
>Just march and stay on your guard (Legio XIX Endurance -10)

Legio XIX
>A cohort should go hunting and bring back meat (Legio XIX Endurance +10)
>Place black powder traps everywhere (-100kg of black powder)
>Ravage the area (+1000 gold, strengh (respect) -10)

(You)
>Gaius, ask him if you can have more food (loose charisma, restore strengh)
>Speak with the vikings and try to learn their language (restore intelligence)
>Spy on Arminius
>Three brothers, teach them counter-insurgency techniques (region conquered)
(roll dice+1d100, strengh treshold for sucess 100-50=50)

>Filthy barbarians
Respect -10, Strengh -10

Legio XIX inventory
-20 black powder flamethrowers
-200kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)
-1 viking unit (1 instant win during battle)

Legio XIX stats
Endurance 60/100
Health 80/100
Moral 70/100

Your Stats
Charisma 100/100
Intelligence 50/100
Strengh 20/100

Your Inventory
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals

Germania campaign is going to sh*t, I'm a bad QM I took action that were never proposed by the players (in your advantage) and the fighting system is not clear enough. I promise next cycle will be better once we are back in Italy.

>>1530498
>Use vikings as scouts
they have no reason to betray us for germanic tribes so we'd be fine why would this make us lose morale though
>A cohort should go hunting and bring back meat
>Spy on Arminius
speaking of which why haven't we told all our (new and old) bros about arminius already, spread rumors and such then have someone arrest him or shank him

>>1530542
this

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Thanks to the Vikings you clear the path for Legio XIX, thus making the march easier and more relaxed. However, the men are kind of demoralized you decided to rely on barbarians.

>Filthy barbarians
Honor -10, Legio XIX Morale -10

Setting the camp near what will become (or won't become) Berlin you ask one cohort to go hunting. Tonight, a huge banquet is organized to give a little boost to their health. During the festivity you sneak in Arminius tent and look for evidence of trason. You find a small statue representing a Germanic god. Strange for a barbarian who adopted every Roman customs. There's also a map of the region and where the barbarian army is waiting for you. You start to spread rumors about Arminius but refrain to tell Gaius as you see that he will desert in you do so. It appears you have to choose between keeping a traitor and valuable source of information with you or facing the consequences of his desertion.

>Use vikings
Territory conquered
unit lost
you will get a new one next year but still have to pay their family the 1000 gold
>Attacking Roman style
Morale -10
Territory conquered
(roll dice+1d100, Moral treshold for sucess 100-60=40)
>Lure them on your flamethrowers
100kg of black powder lost
Territory contested

>>1530585
>>Lure them on your flamethrowers
>100kg of black powder lost

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The battle rages on, legionnaires firmly holding the line, barbarians put all their number into the assault. Cohort starts to fall back to lure the barbarians deeper into their line only to get them engulfed by the flames.

>Crushing victory
Territory conquered, -100 kg of black powder

The next region is a swamp, Legio XIX and yourself will be affected by the humidity, the mosquitoes and the smell. How do you want to cross the swamp ?

>Use black powder to clear a path (-100 kg of black powder)
>Cross the swamp anyway (-20 Legio XIX health, -20 Charisma)
>Use Vikings as scouts to see if there are any ambush (Legio XIX Morale -10)

How do you want to settle your camp ?

Legio XIX
>A cohort should go hunting and bring back meat (Legio XIX Endurance +10)
>Place black powder traps everywhere (-100kg of black powder, useful for defense strategy)
>Ravage the area (+1000 gold, strengh (respect) -10)

(You)
>Gaius, ask him if you can have more food (charisma -10, strengh -10)
>Speak with the vikings and try to learn their language (intelligence +10)
>Spy on Arminius to know where the barbarian army is located (useful for offensive strategy)
>Three brothers, teach them counter-insurgency techniques (region conquered)
(roll dice+1d100, strengh treshold for sucess 100-50=50)


Legio XIX inventory
-10 black powder flamethrowers
-100kg of black powder (a flamethrower needs 10kg)
-1 viking unit (1 instant win during battle)

Legio XIX stats
Endurance 60/100
Health 80/100
Moral 60/100

Your Stats
Charisma 100/100
Intelligence 50/100
Strengh 20/100

Your Inventory
-Roman tunic
-Roman sandals

remember you will have to face the Senate at the end of the year better get your stats ready

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>1530624
>>Use Vikings as scouts to see if there are any ambush (Legio XIX Morale -10)
>A cohort should go hunting and bring back meat
>Three brothers, teach them counter-insurgency techniques (region conquered) (Legio XIX Endurance +10)