Imperium Batavorum: the Rome of the North

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I'm somewhat surprised that the Romans do not interfere at all - even if the last time the local authorities did without consent from Rome, Rome wasn't pleased. But Vespasian as an able military leader will likely give the local commanders the power to deal with such problems autonomously - and quickly.

On the other side, the result of Roman interference will likely be quite the same..

Haha, Monty, you're always ahead of me :) The next chapter is going to be about the Roman reaction and (interference).

But anyways, it would be possible that with Vespasian being a former military commander and the disaster of the Batavian Revolt, he would give the local commanders a bit of autonomous powers, but it would be up to them to use it. As I mentioned in the chapter, in the Batavian Revolt there had been several inicidents that involved Romans fighting Germanics without consent of Rome, inicidents that were very bloody. So, with the Revolt only being four years in the past, I would assume that the local commander does not want to be responsible for anything that can go wrong, and just quietly waits for orders from Rome.

Fabulous beggining, will deffinatly keep tabs on this... is it too early to ask for a map? :p

Thank you Mr.Wigglemunch :)

Ehrm, I recently lost my old computer to a virus on which I had several maps, so it will probably take a while for me to reget Photoshop and such. I do however, have several older maps on Photobucket.

That's true. I guess Batavia is one of the cases of a Germanic kingdom adopting much of the good things of Roman civilization without cutting out much of the corrupt things that were associated with it.

Could you explain this phrase for me Sa'id, as I don't really get the second part of it.

I mean, wouldn't it be that they did cut out most of the corrupt things that were associated with it, as they were Germanic and not Roman?
 
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Haha, Monty, you're always ahead of me :) The next chapter is going to be about the Roman reaction and (interference).

But anyways, it would be possible that with Vespasian being a former military commander and the disaster of the Batavian Revolt, he would give the local commanders a bit of autonomous powers, but it would be up to them to use it. As I mentioned in the chapter, in the Batavian Revolt there had been several inicidents that involved Romans fighting Germanics without consent of Rome, inicidents that were very bloody. So, with the Revolt only being four years in the past, I would assume that the local commander does not want to be responsible for anything that can go wrong, and just quietly waits for orders from Rome.



Thank you Mr.Wigglemunch :)

Ehrm, I recently lost my old computer to a virus on which I had several maps, so it will probably take a while for me to reget Photoshop and such. I do however, have several older maps on Photobucket.



Could you explain this phrase for me Sa'id, as I don't really get the second part of it.

I mean, wouldn't it be that they did cut out most of the corrupt things that were associated with it, as they were Germanic and not Roman?

Pretty much what you said.
 
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