No comments???
I feel the timeline is somehow being ignored...
Not by me. But I'm afraid I'm rather looking on the fighting as a means.
No comments???
I feel the timeline is somehow being ignored...

Is it wrong at this point to view these developments as (thus far) only substituting Etruria for Rome?
Well, Etruria is a kind of Rome-analogue, but Etruria is already at the size where Rome would be a hunderd years later, and there are of course also other differences (culture, religion, political situation, don't forget that Carthage is also stronger ATL)
And Etruria will in the future not be as large as Rome.
Well, the Etruscans and the Romans are approxematly in the same geographical position, so it would be logical to meet the same rivals right.It is interesting thus far, but some of the parallels to date are striking nonetheless.