Battle Thralls: Difference between revisions

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* Near the end of its reign, Rome, the classic [[Vestigial Empire]], was hiring a lot of barbarians, because its own army was depleted. They even hired [[The Huns]] at one point to take down the Burgundians. The Huns quickly figured out there was a lot more gold where their paycheck came from, and spent several years shaking down the Eastern Roman Empire, who had fairly unprofessional soldiers. Then [[Attila]] got cocky and took on the West. The West had trained soldiers and every [[Barbarian Tribe]] that Attila had ever wronged on their side. Not surprisingly, Rome won, and Attila died on his wedding night (not of a nosebleed as is commonly thought; his heavy drinking caused a hemorrhage in his esophagus, and killed him with a combination of choking on his own blood and shock) Now here's where Rome made a huge mistake: it let its Western army slack off, and discriminated heavily on the barbarians. Then, the barbarians all teamed up to form [[The Horde]] and carried out what is still considered to be the greatest ever [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]] ever conducted. The raid was so devastating that not only were barbarians all over Europe able to reclaim their land while the Romans just stood there [[Watching Troy Burn|staring at the bonfire they used to call 'home']], but they actually destroyed 400 years worth of technology. [[Dark Age Europe]] ensued.