HI my long awaiting readers of An Age of Iron and Rust.

I come here, reviving this thread, for one reason.

If you liked the first version come read the new Age.

[thread=376156]Roma Invicta : An Age of Iron and Rust Redux[/thread]
 
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I have been thinking a long time about this TL of mine, and given that my Redux attempt failed by lack of time, I have been thinking of reviving the original and continue from the last update onward.

I would ask the reads of this...

...do you think I should give it a shoot or if I should go back and try to revive the Redux?
 
I have been thinking a long time about this TL of mine, and given that my Redux attempt failed by lack of time, I have been thinking of reviving the original and continue from the last update onward.

I would ask the reads of this...

...do you think I should give it a shoot or if I should go back and try to revive the Redux?

Personally I think either would be good but I whould prefer if you countiue this. But either way we get a good late Roman Empire time line
 
Very well let's see if I can raise this Zomby from the grave.

This is just a small update so that I can go back to full Roman mode :D.

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425 - The Western Roman Empire, was reforged with blood and steel as the Gallic-Britannic Legios putted Illyria, Italia and Hispania under the Control of the Imperator Valens.

Two years ago the Imperator held a formal ceremony in Rome declaring the Renovationis Imperii, Imperial Renovation, as a clear statement to both his internal and external enemies.

He had unified the West and was now looking to the East, for the Empire would only be Renovated when he ruled both sides.

The Eastern court sees this movements with fear. There were several revolts and riots over the past years because of the forced conscription and tax raises so that the Empire could fight the Huns and was even forced to weaken the Easter borders with Parthia and their spies in Ctesiphon say that Mithridates is looking more and more the West.

Desperate to ensure peace in the East so that he can fight his enemies in Europe Constantinus sends envoys to the Magyar and to the White Huns offering them gold and silver in exchange for an attack against the Parthians.

The envoys never returned.

The East would be alone on that border.

426- As the Western Armies took their time to recover their losses, the Imperator begun to ensure that all his borders would be safe for when he made his move against the Eastern Empire.

He sent envoys to Carthage and reaches a deal.

In exchange for the Carthaginians staying their hand against his Empire, Valens agrees to confirm them as the rightful rulers of Mauritania, Africa, Creta et Cyrenaica and Aegyptus, basically selling them his rights to those provinces in exchange for aid.

The Eastern Imperator almost had a seizure when he heard about this and in desperation sent envoys to the Visigoth-Burgundian Kingdom and to the Huns.

Constantinus offers them lands in the Empire and gold and silver in exchange for their aid. Goth-Burundians accept the offer, the Huns also accept.

427- As the Mediterranean World entrails itself into a future war, the Ostrogoths are approached by an envoy from Ctesiphon, with an interesting offer.

The Parthians offer them all Roman Armenia and the coastal areas of Cappadocia in exchange for an alliance against Constantinopolis. The Ostrogoths try to force the Parthians to give them Parthian Armenia, but when the envoys threaten to given nothing other than blood, the Goths accept the deal.

On the other side of the Black Sea the Visigoths and their Burgundian allies begin preparations for war, but not all the chieftains are willing to fight side by side with the Huns and refuse to let the Horde pass through their lands.

As tensions grow between the Huns and the Goth-Burgundians, the Emperor tries to keep his two allies from each others troughs, but with many in Constantinopolis growing more and more distrustful of the barbarians, the Emperor is unable to do anything and his forced to watch as his allies begin to butcher each other.
 
Did valans just give up not just his claim to North Africa, the richest part of the western Mediterranean, but Egypt too? Why would he give up Egypt? Doesn't he know that all of North Africa is vital to the empire?
 
Did valans just give up not just his claim to North Africa, the richest part of the western Mediterranean, but Egypt too? Why would he give up Egypt? Doesn't he know that all of North Africa is vital to the empire?

He does but Valens doesn't have the most important thing to gain control of Africa, ships, and Carthage as plenty of them.

Before turning his eyes to Africa he must first unify all of his subjects under his rule and for that he needs to force them to unify against a common enemy. If he didn't gave up on claims to lands he didn't controlled then Carthage could ally itself with ERE in exchange for lands in Hispania or Italia.

Also Valens only relinquished his claims, his son is the Caesar of the West and he didn't if you get my drift :D.
 
He does but Valens doesn't have the most important thing to gain control of Africa, ships, and Carthage as plenty of them.

Before turning his eyes to Africa he must first unify all of his subjects under his rule and for that he needs to force them to unify against a common enemy. If he didn't gave up on claims to lands he didn't controlled then Carthage could ally itself with ERE in exchange for lands in Hispania or Italia.

Also Valens only relinquished his claims, his son is the Caesar of the West and he didn't if you get my drift :D.

I hope when the empire takes the east they renege on this deal and keep eygpt and have enough of the eastern fleet to take Carthage
 
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