In this mod we are aiming to portray Italy in the late fourth century BC. For over a hundred years since the founding of the Republic, Rome's remained a small, almost provincial town, with only two notable events to its name: the successful taking in 396 B.C. of Veii, a major Etruscan city, and its own sacking by Gauls just a few years later. Now, in the last half/quarter of 4th century BC, Rome has grown considerably in power. It has dissolved the Latin League in 338 B.C. and has taken up the leadership among the Latin states. To the south-east are the great numbers of hardy Samnite mountain warriors. In the north are still eleven of the old twelve powerful Etruscan strongholds. Even further to the north are teeming hordes of Celts, who have just 50 years ago invaded across the Alps into the Po Valley, and entirely obliterated the old twelve Etruscan powerful cities there. And to the south, of course, are the Greeks. News has arrived that Alexander of Epirus, uncle of Alexander the Great, has just landed in Campania, with ambitions for the whole peninsula.

The scene is set.