![]() ![]() Weapon stats are determined by the Weapon Type, but most weapon possess unique bonuses that boost the character's combat capabilities while equipped. Obliteration is a Martial Weapon and a Earth Breaker in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. This penalty disappears once the battle ends. Whenever this +5 vicious earth breaker lands a hit on an enemy, it applies a stacking -2AC penalty to the target. Their heads were nailed to trees or the skulls taken home as souvenirs.Obliteration Martial Weapon - Earth Breaker The Roman survivors were tortured before being hanged or burned alive. After a four-day running fight, the Germans had obliterated three legions. On the fourth day, they were again ambushed in a wooded area, and by noon it was all over. Their gloom increased when it became known that the cavalry had deserted and Varus had committed suicide. Lacking the energy to fortify their camp, the legionaries huddled against the elements and a growing tide of barbarians. The remains of the Roman column retreated west, probably toward Osnabrück, and camped upon a nearby hill for the night. German losses must have been greater, but they were continuously reinforced throughout the day, while the Romans, still a hundred miles distant from their fortress, despaired of help. Thousands fell as each side hacked at the other with sword and ax. ![]() Entering a narrow pass between two sections of Teutoburg Wald, the unsuspecting Romans never saw the carefully laid trap and marched into it haplessly.Īfter a four-day running fight, the Germans had obliterated three legions.Īs Roman cohesion began to collapse, Arminius unleashed his massed warriors on the faltering legions. Bundled up against the elements, they became insensible to everything except their misery. Fighting against the pelting rain and lashing winds, the legionaries trudged forward in mud that brought the baggage train to a crawl. Rain came early on the second day's march, growing heavier as morning gave way to afternoon. Consequently, many legionaries were wandering unarmed among the camp followers when disaster struck. Some of them might revolt from time to time, but few considered this any more worrisome than the sporadic revolts in Gaul after Julius Caesar's conquest. As the legionaries saw it, after years of campaigning by Tiberius and his brother Drusus, the Germans were a beaten people. Spread over ten miles and marching as if they had few concerns, the Roman column became uncharacteristically ragged and undisciplined. Spread over ten miles & marching as if they had few concerns, the Roman column became ragged & undisciplined. The visible might of the legions, coupled with examples such as Sepphoris, broke the rebels' will, and Jerusalem was surrendered without a fight, which did not stop Varus from crucifying 2,000 suspected insurgents. On his approach, the city of Sepphoris was stormed and its population sold into slavery. Employing the Roman playbook for snuffing out insurrections, Varus rapidly marched with two of his four legions to relieve a legion trapped in Jerusalem. ![]() Revolts were nothing new to Varus in his previous assignment as governor of Syria, he was tasked with enforcing a harsh tax regime on the locals, and as almost always happened whenever a conquered people first felt the yoke of Rome's fiscal requirements, Judea rose in revolt. In 9 CE Publius Quinctilius Varus, the first governor of the new Roman province of Germania, was departing his summer headquarters near Minden for the Roman legionary fortress of Moguntiacum (today's Mainz) when word came that a small German tribe had revolted. The Creative Assembly (Copyright) Varus in Germania ![]()
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