The Tervingi are first attested around that date the Greuthungi, Vesi, and Ostrogothi are all attested no earlier than 388. Map of Scandza based on Jordanes: Ostrogothic homeland is located in Southern Sweden.Ī division of the Goths is first attested in 291. The remaining Ostrogoths were absorbed into the Lombards who established a kingdom in Italy in 568. The war lasted for almost 20 years and caused enormous damage and depopulation of Italy. Initially, the Byzantines were successful, but under the leadership of Totila, the Goths reconquered most of the lost territory until Totila's death at the Battle of Taginae. In 493, Theodoric the Great established a kingdom in Italy.Ī period of instability then ensued, tempting the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian to declare war on the Ostrogoths in 535 in an effort to restore the former western provinces of the Roman Empire. 475–488) and later conquered the Kingdom of Italy of the Germanic warrior Odoacer. During the late 5th and 6th centuries, under Theodoric the Great most of the Ostrogoths moved first to Moesia (c. After the collapse of the Hun empire after the Battle of Nedao (453), Ostrogoths migrated westwards towards Illyria and the borders of Italy, while some remained in the Crimea (where the Crimean Ostrogoths existed as a distinct people until at least the 16th century). Their Danubian kingdom reached its zenith under King Ermanaric, who is said to have committed suicide at an old age when the Huns attacked his people and subjugated them in about 370.Īfter their annexation by the Huns, little is heard of the Ostrogoths for about 80 years, after which they reappear in Pannonia on the middle Danube River as federates of the Romans. The Ostrogoths were probably literate in the 3rd century, and their trade with the Romans was highly developed. They built an empire stretching from the Black Sea to the Baltic. The Ostrogoths traced their origins to the Greutungi – a branch of the Goths who had migrated southward from the Baltic Sea and established a kingdom north of the Black Sea, during the 3rd and 4th centuries. The Ostrogoths ( Latin: Ostrogothi or Austrogothi Italian: Ostrogoti) were the eastern branch of the later Goths (the other major branch being the Visigoths). Plastics are really easy to stick in a suitcase.Mosaic depicting the palace of Theodoric the Great in his palace chapel of San Apollinare Nuovo
I got a boxed set from Goblin Games that allows you build stuff, and I wanted a base that looks different from the classic Federation stations. I have been slowly building up a Kzinti fleet, and above is the start, along with a shield marker to show the station's facing without needing to move it too often.
There are all sorts of things available that didn't exist when I first played these games several decades ago, such as a really good Shapeways section for SFB. I have started a blog to chronicle it all here. I am going to need something I can play solo while I am over there, and setting it all up as a grand miniatures campaign has always been something in the back of mind time to turn it into a reality. I have been thinking about getting back into Star Fleet Battles and Federation and Empire for a while now, especially since there is a great Vassal module for the strategic game. Which means I get to stay in the UK for a while longer. In fact, I've already started, but they are extremely strict about covid, and everything is online. So I will be moving to Al Ain in Abu Dhabi in the autumn to wok for the UAE University.
#Vassal module battle fleet gothic full#
However, the situation gave me the impetus not only to go for the full head shave I'd been contemplating for a while (no hairdressers open = mad scientist look anyway), but also to apply for the sorts of jobs I wouldn't normally. This means I had relatively little time left for any games stuff, as you could probably tell from the long silences on this blog. Real life became unbelievably heavy last year due to a combination of work, work, more work and yet another redundancy threat. There is a reason for this, believe it or not.
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