The Campaigns of Rome

For 2026, I decided to play a long campaign using the Dominion of series. This would be far more than a best-of-three or even a best-of-five. I wanted something to keep me occupied for much of the year.

What Theme?

But what should the theme of the campaign be?

I toyed with playing the American Revolution battles from Dominion of Patriots and Redcoats. But I also want to play the 1776 battles on or near the anniversaries. So I decided to put the Revolution on hold.

Next, my thoughts turned to Rome. I am a bit of a Romanophile so it should keep me interested. And there is a lot of history as the basis of the campaign. So Rome it is.

Campaign Ideas

I want to do the full scope of Roman history. I thought of repeating the Roman battles from the Dominion of the Spear's 36 Battles. Some of those battles were not really competitive, though, so I decided not to do it.

Next, my thoughts turned to Solitaire Caesar. I purchased the print-and-play version many years ago. I played once and was moderately successful. It seemed perfect - I could play out the battles using DotS. Alas, I could not find the files, and the price has gone up considerably. So I shelved this idea.

Perhaps I'll just play a bunch of one-off battles against the most formidable foes of Rome. I'd like to play one scenario a month. This gives me 12 scenarios to play. I'll use the army lists in DotS.

The Twelve Foes

I asked Chat GPT for Rome's 12 most formidable foes. Here is the list they gave me, in chronological order:

1. Samnites
2. Pyrrhus
3. Carthage
4. Hannibal - well, this is kind of a repeat of #3 so we'll only do it once.
5. Macedon
6. Pontus
7. Gauls
8. Parthia
9. Germans
10. Dacians
11. Sassanids
12. Huns

Not a bad list, though some may quibble. I may add the Britons to replace the duplicate Carthage.

I asked Chat GPT to create a title image. Here it is.

I'm not sure who's who, but it looks good.