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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 312012" data-attributes="member: 1645">Chapter X -- A Taste of Defeat (continued)...residents of Durres stole out of the city and found their way to Caesar, offering to change sides and betray the town to him.&nbsp; They told him to come in the dead of night to one of the city gates, the one near the shrine of Artemis, which was apparently outside the city walls, bringing a small number of picked men.&nbsp; Then, just before dawn, they would open the gates to him so he could seize the city.Anyone else's spider sense tingling?&nbsp; It certainly sounds like a scene we could steal for a D&amp;D scenario though!Here at daybreak, as Caesar approached the gate by the temple of Artemis, Pompey sprung a trap.&nbsp; Caesar's cavalry were ambushed in the lanes by waiting troops, and they had to fight desperately to make their escape, with Caesar himself only just evading capture.He really was lucky -- for awhile there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 312012, member: 1645"] [b]Chapter X -- A Taste of Defeat (continued)[/b] [Color=Silver]...residents of Durres stole out of the city and found their way to Caesar, offering to change sides and betray the town to him. They told him to come in the dead of night to one of the city gates, the one near the shrine of Artemis, which was apparently outside the city walls, bringing a small number of picked men. Then, just before dawn, they would open the gates to him so he could seize the city.[/Color] Anyone else's spider sense tingling? It certainly sounds like a scene we could steal for a D&D scenario though! [Color=Silver]Here at daybreak, as Caesar approached the gate by the temple of Artemis, Pompey sprung a trap. Caesar's cavalry were ambushed in the lanes by waiting troops, and they had to fight desperately to make their escape, with Caesar himself only just evading capture.[/Color] He really was lucky -- for awhile there. [/QUOTE]

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