Maybe alocating goverment observers to the mercenaries ships could help to keep the pirates honest as well.
Making sure these obsevers are honest as well could be a problem as well.
There could be a chance of recruiting pirate mercenarys as a stop gap untill a new Briton fleet can be created.
These mercenarys could perhaps form the base of this new navy.
If freedom of RE is addopted by the Britons it would allow paganism and Christianity to melt togeather more thoughly than it did in OLT persecution and fear.
This over the long run could mean that Briton would develop their own for of Christianity in the long run.
Kind of like what happend...
It is possible that the law was not enforced by authorities in Britannia being at the far edge of the empire not wanting to threaten there rule because at the time Theodosius passed the laws in 491. Rome had been in its death throws for a while.
But some how i doubt that Cato is into the...
It would be interesting to know Cato stance on Christianity.
If he is a really strong pagan he wont like the crusades the Christians are on and he will use his influence with his army to Christians a really hard time.
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Well what i was getting was there could be some trouble with pagan creating trouble and resisting Christianity and if the leadership decides not to embrace Christianity like Western emperor Valentinian there could be trouble.
Anything that delays the final fall of civ and the complete dark ages is worth a try dont you think.
And on the topic of dark ages i wonder weather a successful post Roman Briton will embrace Christianity to their advantage?
Centralising what is already their is a good start in the way of bureaucracy in pre Roman Briton and i understand that thing will not be entirely business as usual and a certain amount of innovation will be required. By leaders with vision in the long run to keep things running.
Maybe it is...
I dont understand why cant a pre Roman Briton successfully collect its taxes if the strong leadership is provided to beat the administration into shape so everything can run smoothly.
The Britons already produce everything they need with their mining industrial production to make weapons and coins and seeing as the Romans occupied Britannia for roughly 400 years. I see no reason why their wouldn't have a mint around somewhere and some locals producing Roman wepons as it would...
What about having the best of both worlds by combining the disciple of the Legionaries with a fast effective cavalry.
It is after all necessary to a force to cover a broken cavalry charge and to have a well trained disciplined army to garrison to occupy and control the territory of the New...
Hi Jared I would just like to say you have a wonderfully TL here.
The thing that interests me most about your TL at the monument is the development of catapults by the South Aururian empire in response to the European invasion of there lands and the capture of their equipment.
I hope you would...