Day 20251006 — Puzzle #1

The first crisis gripping Rome during the Consulship of Spurius Carvilius Maximus

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.

Tabula Logica

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 Titus Flavius, Master of the Horse, bears counsel from Master Equitim to aid your defence of Rome:

  1. Scouts report no connection between Night Assault and Sicily.
  2. Emissaries deny any link between Sons of Thor and Encirclement.
  3. Scouts report no connection between Night Assault and Via Appia.
  4. Captured mercenaries working for the enemy insist that a River Crossing at the Queen of roads would be unsuccessful.
  5. Captured mercenaries working for the enemy insist that a River Crossing at the Isle of fleets and engineers would be unsuccessful.
  6. Captured foes contradict any tie between Senones and River Crossing.
  7. Captured foes confess Sons of Thor matches Via Appia.
  8. After a day with the torture detachment of Legio III, a captured Senone confesses that they will march on the Harbor of Rome.
  9. Emissaries deny any link between The Royalist conspirators and Sicily.

Issue Orders

Your sage advisor, the noble Master Equitim, counsels vigilance at the Sicily, for he is never wrong.