The empire is on its knees, but a last hope lies beyond the eastern frontier . . .377 AD: Emperor Valens has stripped the Persian frontier of its legions, sending every available man to Thracia in an
The Danubian frontier is weaker than ever, and a storm is gathering in the north . . . Deep winter, 376 AD: Emperor Valens has withdrawn the field armies from Moesia and Thracia to fight in the Persia
The fate of the East rests on the edge of a sword as the legions and the Goths march to war… 378 AD: Fritigern’s Gothic horde tightens its iron grip on Thracia and all but a handful of well-walled imp
The legions are in tatters, and the Gothic hordes are gathering beyond the mountains . . .377 AD: Thracia’s legions are few and broken in the wake of the Battle of Ad Salices. But the scattered centur