Dictator of Rome — Tabula Cerata

Day 20251122 — Puzzle #1

The first crisis gripping Rome during the Consulship of Lucius Licinius Lucullus

Dictators are sometimes appointed just to hold elections or run sacred festivals, but today the Senate has named you to stop an existential threat before it reaches the City. Read the reports, mark the Tabula Logica to aid your deductions, and issue the right orders before the enemy strikes.

Intelligence

		Enemies				Locations

Tactics



Locations

Tactic × Enemy

Location × Enemy

Tactic × Location

REPORTS

Tap an icon below to read a short briefing on each enemy, tactic, or location.

Enemies

Tactics

Locations

Counsel from your Master Equitim

Your Lieutenant, the noble Lucius Cornelius, the Master Equitim, bears counsel to aid your defence of Rome:

A Frumentarii tablet records Starvation Siege with Brundisium.
Scouts confirm Daughters of Odin is linked with Encirclement.
A Frumentarii tablet records Senones with Egypt.
An encoded tablet places Descendants of Tarquin alongside Starvation Siege.
Scouts report no connection between Daughters of Odin and The Tiber.
Emissaries from Senones bristle at the accusation, swearing they would never resort to Feigned Retreat.
Captured foes contradict any tie between Senones and The Tiber.
Scouts report no connection between Ambush and The Tiber.

Issue Orders

Your sage advisor, the noble Master Equitim, warns that a Gallic tribe remembered for sackings is the true menace, and he is never wrong.