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1)
The "Ludi Victoriae Military Award" (LMCA)
is a military tactics contest supported by Nova Roma and
organized by the Cohors Aedilis of Senior Curule Aedile
Caeso Fabius Quintilianus. It is open to all the citizens
of Nova Roma. The task of the contest is to organize the
defense of Rome in the famous battle of Canne against
the Army of Carthago (216 b.C.).
We know how finish this famous battle: the Consuls Terentius
Varrone and Emilius Paulus lost because taken by the "funnel"
of Carthago. It was our greatest defeat ... !
Now you have the possibility to change the history and
show your skills as soldier.
2)
This is the situation on the field in the start of the
battle. As we can see, there is in the bottom of the picture
the enemy's army, the soldiers of Carthago and african
alleated. On the top there is the Roman Army.
You have 6 miltary units with different Speed and Power:
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1 line of Velites [Speed 3 - Power 2 = 5]
- 1 Roman Cavalry [S4 - P2 = 6]
- 1 Allied Cavalry [S5 - P3 = 7]
- 1 Roman Legion [S1 - P5 = 6]
- 2 Allied Alae Sociorum [S1 - P3 = 4] x 2 = 8
...
againt 6 units of the Carthago's Army:
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1 line of light infantry [Speed 3 - Power 1 = 4]
- 2 African Phalanx [S1 - P4 = 5] = 10
- 1 Numidian Cavalry [S5 - P3 = 8]
- 1 Celtic-Iberian Cavalry [S3 - P3 = 6]
- 1 Celtic-Iberian Infantry [S1 - P3 = 4]
In
the following two pictures there is the tactic used by
Hannibal against the roman Consuls. As you can see the
african Army moved the Phalanxs back the cavalry and after
create a funnel with the Infantry. The two Cavalries had
the function to push the enemy's units in this funnel.
3) What is your target? Each player of this Award
must to create a new tactic for the Roman Army using some
of every units [Cavalry (roman and allied), the legiones
and the line of Maniples]. The partecipant have to projecting
useful mouvements for the units thinking about the power
ans speed of each unit. Each player can take these images
to complete the battle's schedule.
4)
The Award is open to single participants or to groups
composed of a maximum of 5 citizens. Each participant
or group of participants can participate with just _one_
work. It isn't allowed to be a member of a group and participate
as a individual at the same time. The contributed work
must be in English, with a maximum of 500 words,
also within pictures and/or movies.
5)
The text can be sended in this formats: .html, .doc, .txt.
The images can be jpgs, gifs, tifs or bmps. The movies
can be developed in Flash, Shockwave, Director or Mpeg.
6)
Each text must have the following facts about the participant(s):
Nova Roman name, real name, Nova Roman Province, e-mail
address.
7)
The deadline to send own work is October
16, 2002 (2755 a.u.c.), by e-mail to sacro_barese_impero@libero.it
[Franciscus Apulus Caesar] with the subject "LMCA".
8)
The texts will judged by a Jury composed by the four higher
Nova Roman experts of military arts:
-
Alexander Solaris Draco, Legatus Militaris Provinciae
Italiae
- Marcus Minucius Audens, Praefectus Fabrum of the Sodalitas
Militarium
- Gallio Velius Marsallas, Co-Commander of the Sodalitas
Militarium
- Caius Flavius Diocletianus, Legate Legionis Group Sodalitas
Militarium
Each
judge in the jury shall value each work following this
table of judgement:
- Tactic (0-10 points)
- How many units have been used (0-5 points: 5 if using
only one unit, 4 if using 2 units, etc....)
- Efficacy of the units (Power+Speed)
- Military Language (0-5 points)
- Hypothetic result (0-5 points)
8
a) The points from all judges are summarized and this
sum will decide who will win.
8 b) The judgements of the jury are un-impugnable.
9)
The tactic winner of the Victoriae Military Award will
be published at the Cohors Aedilis Website - Section Ludi
and at the Main Mailing List of Nova Roma and as a virtual
Diploma.
10)
The texts and all the materials will be archived by the
Ludi organization. The participants give the copyrights
of their text to Nova Roma accepting this regulation.
This Regulation is accepted by taking part of the "the
Ludi Victoriae Military Award" (LMCA).
11) The winner shall be announced on the Cohors Aedilis
Website - Section Ludi and at the Nova Roman Main Mailing
List at October 20, 2002.
Informations:
- Victoriae c/o Cohors Aedilis - Section Ludi: http://italia.novaroma.org/cohorsaedilis/ludi/victoriae/
- Senior Curule Aedile Caeso Fabius Quintilianus: tjalens.h@telia.com
- Quaestor Franciscus Apulus Caesar: sacro_barese_impero@libero.it
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