Status Updates From The Storm Before the Storm:...

Oh my god he lost TWO armies to defection? Two? Whole? Armies? At different battles? Lmao.

"I will not knowingly kill anyone" is an INSANE way to phrase a promise of non aggression. It's crazy that people went "eh good enough"

Oh my god Grandpa Marius just retire!!!!

The Cimbris: we just want a peaceful land to settle in. We're actually not interested in Rome.
The Romans: so what we're hearing is that u want to invade us.

Roman legions playing a game of cat and mouse with an Algerian king in the Atlas mountains and the desert is straight out of Astérix, love it, 10/10.

I find the little foreshadowings so cute. "Hmmm this decision to have a professional army loyal to its general and not the Senate and people of Rome SURE will have consequences in the future wink wink"

Ah I see that bribing senators so you can continue to massacre people is a time-honored tradition.

Chagrined that politicians nowadays don't use "my dead brother who was murdered by this city came to me in a dream to tell me I definitely am fated to have this role" as an argument to run for office.