Year Of the Four Emperors

were acclaimed by their troops, or bought others\' support, to claim the throne. The resulting civil war was pretty nasty. So in the scenario, I\'ve got the empire - based on the Ancient Mediterranean Mod map - divided up more or less realistically according to areas of support for the four contenders. Parthia is a threat, off to the east, and various \'barbarian\' tribes loiter around the edges. [/quote]
[quote]I\'ve chosen to model AD 69, the Year of the Four Emperors - after the assassination of Nero in AD 68, four aristocrats (Otho, Galba, Vitellius, and Vespasian) in different parts of the empire