Dire news the heralds bear this day to Rome! The army, led by the legate T. Durmius Ahala, has been defeated despite battling with great bravery against superior numbers. Romanus Secundus has been abandoned to the enemy as the field army has fallen back on (Roman player's choice: Rome or Romanus Primus). Three tribunes of the people fell on the plain of Mars; elections for their successors will be held shortly. Refugees are already arriving at the gates of the city.
I'm about to leave on a break (a week in the Highlands!), so I will try to file a full battle report when I return (hopefully with pictures). It was very close-run, with the Romans hoping at first to use their mounted arm to outflank the Gauls before the Syrcusans showed up, but being hampered by redeployments by the Gauls at start and a string of bad pip dice (6,5 to begin with, then 2,1,1,1,1--if I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it). The Syrcusans didn't turn up until Turn 7, and when they did they didn't actually *do* much, but they did keep the Roman left flank pinned down. Once the battlelines ran together, the Romans had to make the best of a bad job and press hard where they could get overlaps and flanks. The element of Titus Durmius (fighting among the princeps) actually killed off an element of Gallic skirmishers (so much for the deadliness of teenagers with stones), but the Gauls won the battle of broken-field fighting.
Final result: 4-3 Gaul
Gauls lose 2 Wb, 1 Ps; Romans lose 2 Bd, 1 Cv, 1 Ps; Syracusans lose no elements but kill none either.
Gauls earn 1 prestige point and capture the city.
Updated map when I return.
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