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378 AD: Fritigern's Gothic horde tightens its iron grip on Thracia and only a handful of well-walled cities to the south remain in imperial hands. The few tattered legions pinned in these cities can only watch on from the battlements as smoke rises across their lost lands and the Goths roam at will, pillaging and extorting. Every Roman—legionary or citizen—speaks of only one thing: the Emperors of East and West, Valens and Gratian, who are said to be closing swiftly on this war-stricken land, each bringing with them vast armies capable of vanquishing the horde.

1258 BC: Surrounded and outnumbered by the army of Agamemnon, King Priam and his Trojan forces fight desperately to defend their city. In the lulls between battle, all talk inevitably turns to the mighty ally that has not yet arrived to their aid. Agamemnon will weep for mercy, the Trojans say, when the eastern horizons darken with the endless ranks of the Hittite Empire.

377 d.C. Le legioni in Tracia sono state decimate durante la battaglia di Ad Salices. Ma i centurioni sparsi e le coorti superstiti sono impegnati nell'eroico tentativo di trattenere le armate dei goti e gli attacchi implacabili di Fritigerno oltre il monte Emo. Stanno cercando disperatamente di resistere fino a quando l'imperatore d'Occidente Valente e l'imperatore d'Oriente Graziano riusciranno a inviare loro dei rinforzi.

The year 360 AD: A Roman legion is trapped and surrounded in the blistering Persian desert...and a great saga begins.