Author Topic: [Roma]Imperium Romanum(Recruiting NA) (Read 8021 times)

Natermotor · « **on:** January 31, 2013, 02:00:29 am »

Imperium Romanum

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Historical Background

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Rome had begun annexing provinces in the 3rd century BC, four centuries before reaching its greatest territorial extent, and in that sense was an "empire" while still governed as a republic.[9] Republican provinces were administered by former consuls and praetors, who had been elected to one-year terms and held imperium, "right of command".[10] The amassing of disproportionate wealth and military power by a few men through their provincial commands was a major factor in the transition from republic to imperial autocracy.[11] Later, the position of power held by the emperor was expressed as imperium.[12] The Latin word is the origin of English "empire," a meaning it began to acquire only later in Rome's history.[13]

The Augustus of Prima Porta (early 1st century AD)
As the first emperor, Augustus took the official position that he had saved the Republic, and carefully framed his powers within republican constitutional principles. He rejected titles that Romans associated with monarchy, and instead referred to himself as the princeps, "leading citizen". Consuls continued to be elected, tribunes of the people continued to put forth legislation, and senators still debated in the curia. It was Augustus, however, who established the precedent that the emperor controlled the final decisions, backed up by military force.
The reign of Augustus, lasting more than 40 years, was portrayed in Augustan literature and art as a new "Golden Age." Augustus laid out an enduring ideological foundation for the three centuries of the Empire known as the Principate (27 BC–284 AD), the first 200 years of which is traditionally regarded as the Pax Romana. During this period, the cohesion of the Empire was furthered by participation in civic life, economic ties, and shared cultural, legal and religious norms. Uprisings in the provinces were infrequent, but put down "mercilessly and swiftly" when they occurred,[14] as in Britain and Gaul. The sixty years of Jewish–Roman wars in the first half of the 2nd century were exceptional in their duration and violence.[15]
The success of Augustus in establishing principles of dynastic succession was limited by his outliving a number of talented potential heirs: the Julio-Claudian dynasty lasted for four more emperors—Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—before it yielded in 69 AD to the strife-torn Year of Four Emperors, from which Vespasian emerged as victor.
Vespasian became the founder of the brief Flavian dynasty, to be followed by the Nerva–Antonine dynasty which produced the "Five Good Emperors": Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and the philosophically inclined Marcus Aurelius. In the view of the Greek historian Dio Cassius, a contemporary observer, the accession of the emperor Commodus in 180 AD marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron"[16]—a famous comment which has led some historians, notably Edward Gibbon, to take Commodus' reign as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire.
In 212, during the reign of Caracalla, Roman citizenship was granted to all freeborn inhabitants of the Empire. But despite this gesture of universality, the Severan dynasty was tumultuous—an emperor's reign was ended routinely by his murder or execution—and following its collapse, the Roman Empire was engulfed by the Crisis of the Third Century, a period of invasions, civil strife, economic depression, and plague.[17] In defining historical epochs, this crisis is sometimes viewed as marking the transition from Classical Antiquity to Late Antiquity. The emaciated illusion of the old Republic was sacrificed for the sake of imposing order: Diocletian (reigned 284–305) brought the Empire back from the brink, but declined the role of princeps and became the first emperor to be addressed regularly as dominus, "master" or "lord".[18] The state of autocratic absolutism that resulted is the Dominate, which endured till the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476. Diocletian's reign also brought the Empire's most concerted effort against the perceived threat of Christianity, the "Great" Persecution.
The unity of the Roman Empire was from this point a fiction, as graphically revealed by Diocletian's division of authority among four "co-emperors", the Tetrarchy.[19] Order was shaken again soon after, but was restored by Constantine, who became the first emperor to convert to Christianity, and who established Constantinople as the new capital of the eastern empire. During the decades of the Constantinian and Valentinian dynasties, the Empire was divided along an east-west axis, with dual power centres in Constantinople and Rome. The reign of Julian, who attempted to restore Classical Roman and Hellenistic religion, only briefly interrupted the succession of Christian emperors. Theodosius I, the last emperor to rule over both East and West, died in 395 AD after making Christianity the official state religion.[20]
Beginning in the late 4th century, the Empire began to disintegrate as barbarians from the north overwhelmed the control of Christian Rome. Most chronologies place the end of the Western empire in 476, when Romulus Augustus was forced to abdicate to the Germanic warlord Odoacer.[21] The empire in the East—known today as the Byzantine Empire, but referred to in its time as the "Roman Empire" or by various other names—ended in 1453 with the death of Constantine XI and the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.[22]

Joining Imperium Romanum

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Roster

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Goals

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Armor

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It is HIGHLY, HIGHLY preferred that the armors listed here are used. If you insist on using others, no eastern armors are allowed.

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Strategus and Diplomacy

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Voice Communications and Contact

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I DO REALIZE THAT THE ARMORS AREN'T PERFECT, HOWEVER THEY ARE THE BEST THAT CRPG HAS TO OFFER

Natermotor · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:02:37 am »

Suggested Builds

Principe

Main Force in the Roman Legions

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Velite

Light Infantry and Skirmisher of the Legion

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Equite

Cavalry of the Legion

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Roman Archer

Ranged Units of the Legion

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Silicium · « **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:45:44 am »

Goodluck.

no_rules_just_play · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:51:09 am »

goodluck, is that copy pasta from wikipedia btw?

tizzango · « **Reply #4 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:55:19 am »

Nice to see new clans forming.. or porting from Native.. or wherever

Natermotor · « **Reply #5 on:** January 31, 2013, 03:20:54 am »

Lol, yea it is a copy-paste. I'm sure at some point I'll type some sort of RP history for us, just wanted something in there for now. Thanks for all the well-wishes, and we're actually break-offs from the Kingdom of Jerusalem. No hard feelings there either.

Conquisitore · « **Reply #6 on:** January 31, 2013, 05:10:34 pm »

GL, but you need another banner imo, yours is to dark and not the roma red

Natermotor · « **Reply #7 on:** January 31, 2013, 05:13:44 pm »

Quote from: Conquisitore on January 31, 2013, 05:10:34 pm

GL, but you need another banner imo, yours is to dark and not the roma red

Actually working on a new banner now, should have one up by tonight.

Conquisitore · « **Reply #8 on:** January 31, 2013, 05:23:18 pm »

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take this one if you like it

Joseph Porta · « **Reply #9 on:** January 31, 2013, 05:57:20 pm »

Are you all gonna wear:

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And use this:

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Good luck!

Natermotor · « **Reply #10 on:** January 31, 2013, 06:48:42 pm »

Quote from: Conquisitore on January 31, 2013, 05:23:18 pm

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take this one if you like it

Looks good! I'll try it out. Thanks man.

Natermotor · « **Reply #11 on:** January 31, 2013, 07:11:22 pm »

Quote from: Joseph_Porta on January 31, 2013, 05:57:20 pm

Are you all gonna wear:
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And use this:
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if 2
Ps 7
Pt 7
Shi 3
Ath 5
Wm 5
70 1h
80 pole
105 throwing

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Good luck!

I actually did try a build similar to this earlier today, just without the 1h. Bring two javelins, throw one, then use the other as a spear with the board. Didn't do horrible, and I think with a week or so I could get pretty good with it.

Joseph Porta · « **Reply #12 on:** January 31, 2013, 07:18:40 pm »

Quote from: Natermotor on January 31, 2013, 07:11:22 pm

I actually did try a build similar to this earlier today, just without the 1h. Bring two javelins, throw one, then use the other as a spear with the board. Didn't do horrible, and I think with a week or so I could get pretty good with it.

Thats an option too, i guess around 100 wpf in polearm? The stab on the lance(javs have nice stab but theyre terribly shit on the sideswings, afaik correct me if im wrong! i like the lances for their decent side/overgead attacks, to fend off shield breakers.

) should be quite fast.

And ofcourse its major fun throwing those nukes around.

Natermotor · « **Reply #13 on:** January 31, 2013, 07:29:42 pm »

Quote from: Joseph_Porta on January 31, 2013, 07:18:40 pm

Thats an option too, i guess around 100 wpf in polearm? The stab on the lance(javs have nice stab but theyre terribly shit on the sideswings, afaik correct me if im wrong! i like the lances for their decent side/overgead attacks, to fend off shield breakers. ) should be quite fast.
And ofcourse its major fun throwing those nukes around.

80 polearm, 122 throwing. 80 seems to be enough. The stab on the lance is killer too.

Updated post with TS info!

7000bc · « **Reply #14 on:** February 01, 2013, 12:55:17 am »

I wish to join the glorious clan of ROMA. VAE VICTUS! (How do I join)

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