Fall of Roman Brittain, circa 451
Creator: starhal || First Published: 04/01/2026 || Players: 11 || Size: 50x50
Categories: Historical/Geographical
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Comments:
starhal (04/01/2026 02:44pm | Edited: 04/01/2026 03:35pm):

A map designed for a 500 funds FFA (As is standard for my maps) by heavily modifying a D-day map I found. Depicting the
circumstances that led to Roman withdrawal from the British isles and settling of them by the Anglo-Saxons. Fog on or off,
no global damage COs or Kindle (Javier counts as tier 0, Sami as tier 1), random or clear weather (Random recommended),
and day limit of 60 so the game lasts long but not forever

Banned units: Antiair, missiles, rockets, piperunners, neotanks, megatanks, all naval units beside transports (The last I now
know is a terrible idea if you play with normal funds, which is the main reason why the map has half funds instead).

Factions, in move order:
- (Orange Star) Rome: Their main cities are Paris, Orleans and Lyon. None of their British holdings are required to stay in
the game, to encourage the historical tendency to withdraw troops from the Brittish isles.
- (Blue Moon) Brittonic kingdoms: Ceint, Gwent and other semi-independent kingdoms that are yet to gain full independence
as consequence or dwindling Roman control. Larger such states were made into their own players.
- (Green Earth): Scotti (Irish) raiders, who plunder and even settle on the Welsh coast, although some of their raids reach
further inland.
- (Yellow Comet): Dumnonia and the kingdom of Brettons, controlled by the same player to reduce bloat of too many nations
on the map.
- (Brown Desert): Early Welsh kingdoms, most notably Glywyssing in the south.
- (Amber Blossom): Saxons of north Germania, and Anglos of southern Denmark. Their migration pushed back in time, so
that they may choose between following historical course or moving against the Franks instead.
- (Cobalt Ice): Kingdom of Franks, at this time still officially allies to Rome
- (Pink Cosmos): Burgunds, another ally of Rome. Half of their territory to the south is off the map, so I gave them an
offmap property
- (Teal Galaxy): Northernmost territories of the Visigoths, who also control Aquittaine and part of Spain off the map. They were
given only a few off-map properties, as northern Gaul wasn't the main focus of their expansion.
- (Purple Lightning): Pagenses, which would later split into kingdoms of Powys and Pengwern (Or Powys conquered their
western lands, not 100% sure)
- (Acid Rain): Attila the Hun. Historically, his invasion of Gaul was stopped by Romans and their allies (Most notably
Visigoths) at the battle of the Catalaunian Fields, which is why this map is set to the year 451. Will history repeat itself, or
will he succeed this time in sacking Paris to the ground?
starhal (04/01/2026 03:19pm | Edited: 04/01/2026 03:23pm):
Despite using the forementioned D-day map as a template, making this map actually took forever, as that template map had no
rivers and I had to find and cross-referrence different maps (Territorial extent of Franks, map of Anglo-Saxon migration, map of
Brittain between 400 and 425 CE, map of Roman gaul in 400s, and map depicting Hun invasion of 451) for political borders, of
course in addition to reading up on events taking place.

Also, I didn't wanna add a player that'd immediately be killed, so Frisians just have empty properties
Cosechador (04/03/2026 09:36am):
I think there were many more forests and mountains in that age.
FunnyManInAClownWorld (04/03/2026 02:44pm):
yeah, too much plains plain-ness



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