Total War: Attila

[Hasdrubal]

I'm about to go to Work here shortly and I do want to respond, but both of you are making me do some serious researching and I'm flying through some of my old history books. I do appreciate you guys taking the time out to answer my responses. I do find it enjoyable.

Magister Militum Flavius Aetius you're not familiar when Aetius was with the Gothic King Alaric for quite some time, then was transferred over to the Huns in care of Uldin and spent quite some time with the Huns?

I never said Aetius knew Attila personally. I doubt they did. Aetius was friends with the Huns and I'm suspecting his uncle Rua. Aetius with the Huns when Honorius died came to the West. He finally got consensus with Galla Placedia.

Robert. I do agree with you about using outside sources as the Romans source of men to pull from if needed for the legions. You said specifically that Rome intergrated them and made them citizens. Alaric and the Goth tried becoming citizens. Rome denied them. That was the difference between using Rome (I consider them Italians which is a broad brush. When I think of Rome I think of Illyria, The Greek states, Gaul; before the Goths and Vandals entered, and Spain) but they were Romans nonetheless.

I guess I should apologize for using Italians as a basis of being Roman. This is the first place I've come to where I've been able to debate about the Romans and their History. I'm way too excited. I may interpret things wrong or putting the proper wording down, but it's a learning experience.