At the beginning of 31 BCE, Neptune opens up Actium for a naval battle by blowing on a conch calling all players (living mortals, imagines and numina) to the proelium ultimum (the final battle) at Actium which will decide the fate of the Roman world. All players with properties must participate in the proelium ultimum as active parties or their allies (amici, clientes). Amicitiae ultimae (final alliances) may be formed at this time. If Dionysus has bacchants with properties, he and his thiasos may join in the proelium ultimum as an amicitia ultima. Imagines and numina may contribute whatever Denarii and other properties they have remaining to any party involved in the proelium ultimum.
Properties
Before the Battle of Actium, all players must redeem the properties and Denarii in their possession, exchanging them for naves longae (warships) purchasable from Neptune at the following costs:
- the first ten naves longae: 1,000,000 D each
- the second ten naves longae: 2,000,000 D each
- the third ten naves longae: 3,000,000 D each, and so on (see Appendix B)
Naves longae can be purchased from Neptune, according to the following values:
- Legio (curialis or clientarum): 400,000 D
- Classis: 300,000 D
- 10 Suffragia: 100,000 D
- Rexpressus Platinum: 3,000,000 D
- Legiones ultrices (belonging to imagines or Mars): 1,000,000 D.
- Dos: 3,000,000 D.
The Battle
A party engaged in the proelium ultimum consists of any active player (and his amici/clientes) who is in possession of at least one navis longa. Because this conflict takes place at sea, unlike in land battles all parties engage in the proelium ultimum simultaneously and fight each other at the same time. The proelium ultimum proceeds as follows:
- all parties roll one die simultaneously
- if one player rolls a number higher than all others, he retains his
own navis longa (die) and all other players lose theirs to
Neptune
- if two or more players tie for the highest number, they retain their naves longae (dice) and all other players lose theirs to Neptune
- play continues until only one party is left in possession of one or more navis longa
Victory
The victorious party leads a triumphal procession around the world, ending in Rome. They may shout "Io triumphe!" and sing apotropaic verses, praising and/or abusing their leader. After arriving in Rome, Juppiter Optimus Maximus bestows on the leader the corona triumphalis (the golden crown of triumph) and the title "Magnus/Magna."
The victorious party is now in control of Rome, it may organize the
Roman state at will, establishing any type of government (e.g. Republic,
Empire, Democracy, Loose Confederation of City-States or Tribes, Thiasos,
an Autonomous Collective as part of an Anarcho-syndicalist Commune, etc.).
It may dispose of all parties, including numina, in any of the
following ways:
- enslave or kill any survivors
- assign to any survivors the governance of a region or regions
- deify and establish the cult of any imago
- promote or forbid the worship of any numen
We make war that we may live in peace