In Songs of Steel: Hispania we offer two narratives linked to completely distinct experiences for the player. The Celtiberians’ side and the Romans’ side.
In the Celtiberian side, the main characters Ambo, Leuco, Megara, and Rethogenes, aside from being the leaders of the Numantians, also fought in battle. This creates main characters that are more complex and functional when it comes to intervening in the decision-making process and management of resources of the city’s government, aside from being playable in battle.
On the Roman side, however, the consuls were only strategists, they didn’t participate in battle, except Scipio, and they were regularly replaced in each new campaign, so in contrast to the Celtiberians, none of them went through the full 20 years of the war. All of them are fascinating characters from a historical standpoint, and thanks to the fact that they had the historians of the time next to them, we have a great deal of documents that have survived to this day. But those chronicles talk a lot about them and very little about the Roman soldiers that were on the field. Those great unknowns are the ones involved in the battles, and we didn’t want to miss out on that point of view always forgotten by history.
For Songs of Steel: Hispania we created three fictional Roman soldiers that will experience the conflict from start to finish, fight in each battle and interact with the consuls. This meant doing extra documentation on our part, since even though these characters didn’t exist, their circumstances and evolution within the Roman army had to have the same historical accuracy as that of the real characters.
This historical accuracy will be to the liking of the Roman republic’s fans and players that just want to experience the game alike.
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