I´ve always found the second century BC fascinating... the age of conquests and laying the foundations for the death of the Rebublic.

As Philip V supported Hannibal in the Second Punic War -Romans had sent a fleet to Greece- the Romans -fearing him?- started the Second Macedonian War immediately in 200 and finished it at Kynoskephalai. On the following year -196- Flamininus declares the Hellenes free.

Now the wars on the Iberian peninsula -which would last to Numantia and beyond- had in the meanwhile flamed up.

In 191 the war against Antiochus starts to end in the peace of Apamea.


In a decade the Romans had made themself the chief power in the Balkans and the Hellenistic world.

Was this ambition for riches?

Well, many veterans of the bellum Hannibalicum had probably lost their farms during it and would glady volunteer for any eastern army... second, the state benefited from it..... third, lots of triumphs and booty for the nobiles...

We have to remember that the armies which beated the Hellenistic kingdoms were small regular consular ones -from two to four legions.


And it would be interesting to note the tactics of the armies in the east. How did they beat much larges armies fighting in their homeground? This too is particularly interesting as in the roleplay Imperium we are presently fighting Antiochus. With one army in Lycia and the other in Palestine...

BWAHAHAHAAAAAA

Just some ramblings to get the discussion going.